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Ask Soylent: Best Bang for Buck Television Purchase

posted by mrpg on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the i-hate-shopping dept.

Sulla writes:

So one of my three year old kids smashed my 65" LED flatscreen with a die-cast model of the Atlantis shuttle. I was fine with this and was not planning on buying a replacement in any haste but my wife keeps complaining. Would prefer at least 65"+ and absolutely not a smart tv. What suggestions do you have, companies to avoid, etc. Help me SN, you are probably my only hope of not just buying another spysung.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Knowledge Troll on Saturday January 20 2018, @06:34PM

    by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Saturday January 20 2018, @06:34PM (#625236) Homepage Journal

    I bought a new TV a few years ago and found exactly what I wanted at Costco with a price that was basically exactly what it should have been. At that time Costco had Panasonic do a few production runs of a TV to their specifications: the best quality display module with the least amounts of smarts thrown in. What I got was a beautiful 65" plasma display for $1,100 - what I didn't get was tons of different inputs on the back or very many smart features. It does include network access via an ethernet cable if you want to set it up and it can play NetFlix and some other streaming services if you set it up. I didn't set that up and use it as nothing more than an output for my home theater receiver so I just need a single HDMI cable feeding it. That was exactly what I was looking for at a price I was willing to spend. With out that Costco spec run of devices I wouldn't have anywhere near as much display as I wound up getting.

    My advice: see if Costco is doing the same thing right now. I believe even if you are not a member you can still use the website to place an order.

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