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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:50PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:50PM (#625264)

    Sony 930D TVs keep turning the wifi connection on and setting up its own multicast network even if you turn it off. Also, it can't even adjust the audio volume without problems - it's too slow to keep up with button presses on the remote so you'll always overshoot. Finally, it is only recently that a firmware upgrade has fixed the problem of it not showing videos in the correct aspect. Oh, and my expensive 930D, brand new in 2016, has hardware dated 2015. Weak CPU and limited RAM memory means really crappy performance. Don't buy a Sony.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by legont on Saturday January 20 2018, @10:38PM

    by legont (4179) on Saturday January 20 2018, @10:38PM (#625366)

    Never ever buy anything Sony - I learned it 30+ years ago and still stands.

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    "Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.

  • (Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Saturday January 20 2018, @11:06PM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Saturday January 20 2018, @11:06PM (#625382) Journal

    Sony: Our so-called smart TV has what is about the worst software that I've seen in the last decade. Aside a good picture and decent sound it does NOTHING well.