Has anyone found these in stores yet?  An ad circular for them ran here (Richmond, VA) a couple of weeks ago listing them on sale at Farm Fresh grocery but the one store here did not have them.

Sylvania started advertising them in December 2008.

Supposedly they have better color than conventional CFLs.

Alex I have seen these in the Albertsons supermarkets here. But they're pretty expensive ($11.99 for the 2 pack 60w equivalents and $13.99 for the 2 pack 100w equivalents) so they aren't selling and I'm unwilling to pay that much for a product I'm not a fan of.

Dave, I assume these lamps use an improved phosphor so I was curious to see what they look like.  That price is not that bad.  The dimmable CFLs run at least that much.  I don't know what new phosphor technology may be used -- perhaps something like the GE Starcoat or Philips Ultralume coatings.

As you know, there is a wide variation in the quality of light from CFLs.  Some 2700k lamps look darn close to incandescent.  I have found the GEs to be quite good overall. A friend of mine bought some bulk packaged CFLs from Costco that are excellent.  I don't know who made them but the color was really good.

The earlier Sylvanias were labeled as 3000k and the color was awful.  Later ones say 2700k.

I guess I'll just have to wait until they show up in the stores.  I was hoping Lowes would carry them since they carry a lot of Sylvania lamps.

Have a great day.

Alex

The CFL lamps from CostCo are most likely Feit Electric and yeah they're good. Got a load of them all over my house except the E-12 base fixtures and the fridges.