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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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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Saturday January 20 2018, @06:49PM (7 children)
If you get a slow smart TV, and not all of them are, you can just pretend you're living in a time with CRTs and no remotes.
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(Score: 1) by Sulla on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:15PM
We don't watch television anymore, just netflix/hulu/youtube. Would rather do a google spystick instead of samsungs built in system. The smart tv we had is two years old and was in the ~1500 range, crashes constantly.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:27PM (3 children)
What nonsense are you talking? We had a remote even when we only had a tiny black and white CRT. Unfortunately it was me until my younger brothers learned to work the channel changing knob.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:01PM
SneakerRemote! So _that's_ what kids are for!
I'm an old enough fart to remember a TV my parents had, probably from early 1960s. It had a rubber bulb, long plastic tube, and a piston and ratchet mechanism on the channel changer. You could only advance the channels, 2-13, UHF (whatever it happened to be tuned to), and one position was OFF. There was a jack for a speaker (with long wire) you could put at your location which had a volume knob.
(Score: 3, Informative) by requerdanos on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:51PM
And the difference in technology aptitude between the older generations and the younger was summed up as "Don't turn the knob so fast! You'll break the thing."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:55PM
Our first color TV in the 50s had a remote. It was a little box attached to the TV with wires. When you pressed a button, the rotary controls on the TV turned because of motors somewhere in there. I still remember how impressive the NBC peacock was in color the first time I saw it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:30PM
*citation needed*
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:51PM
Not all of us can just pretend [geekculture.com], you insensitive clod!