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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: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:27PM (3 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:27PM (#625258) Homepage Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:01PM

    by RS3 (6367) on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:01PM (#625269)

    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

    by requerdanos (5997) on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:51PM (#625293) Journal

    it was me... channel changing knob.

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:55PM (#625295)

    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.