Contest alert: Vizio giving away 500 55-inch HDTVs
February 5th, 2009, 5:59 pm · 9 Comments · posted by Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress
If you were like me, you saw the Vizio TV commercial during Super Bowl, but kept watching TV instead of checking out the Irvine TV seller’s $1 million contest online. (In fact, some people thought the commercial was the worst commercial this year.)
The company sent me a reminder today. And it’s actually a pretty good contest worth mentioning to readers. Vizio is giving away 500 55-inch LCD TVs with 120 Hz refresh rate and 9 high definition inputs (drool). It plans to hand out 17 of the $1,999 XVT series TVs every week beginning Feb. 23 through Aug. 31. The last weekend it’s giving away 24, which makes a grand total of 500 TVs or $1 million.
All you need to do is enter at Vizio.com, or 70.32.72.72, which asks that you submit a “Your Vizio Story” on how you found Vizio and its impact on your life. Tell them you heard about it on Gadgetress and maybe they’ll give you bonus points (kidding).
Apparently, many Super Bowl viewers did visit the site during or after the game. Visits to its site grew 400 percent after the commercial aired, the company said.
Last chance to enter the contest is Aug. 14, 2009. Good luck!
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We would love to have a larger TV. I love Vizio products and would love to own a big screen TV
I would love to win a Vizio. This tv has great specs and it’s free! haha
I would love to win a big screen tv. I have heard alot of good thing’s about vizio and would like the chance to find out if these thing’s are true. I am always entering contest, mybe one of these days I might win.
It would be great to own a big screen Vizio TV as I cannot afford one at this time. We use them at work for video conferences and special programs to the public, so they receive alot of exposure for quality, which is so good and one of the best pictures of quality viewed.
My wife and did all of our homework on different big screen tv’s and had decided that the “vizio” was the one we wanted, but then the economy did the big down turn, and we have to put it on hold until things get alittle better, so winning a “vizio” would be a wonderful thing…
We have a Vizio 47 inch lcd, and it has been great. We, recommend Vizio TV’S to all our friends. We, our considering upgrading ours to the new 55 inch size. Winning it would be oh so much better.
I hvae a very old tv and could really use a new one. A flat screen would be a dream come true. Vizio tv’s are truly on the cutting edge of technology and I would be priviliged to own one.
Please feel free to choose me as a winner in your Vizio give away!! My current TV will be out dated as of June 12th 2009.
I have never owned a flat screen and because of circumstances I now can’t affort one.