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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: 2, Disagree) by hemocyanin on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:17PM (3 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:17PM (#625274) Journal

    OK -- they flicker and for those of us with our hearing intact, they emit I high frequency whine. CRTs are only good for target practice or weight lifting.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @09:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @09:17PM (#625307)

    And Duck Hunt.

  • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Saturday January 20 2018, @10:10PM (1 child)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Saturday January 20 2018, @10:10PM (#625347)

    I'm actually quite sensitive to both of those, but don't normally have a problem with better CRTs. Flicker? Unless the tube used a lower persistent phosphor (such as a tube meant to display VGA), it is usually not an issue. Personally I find the hypnotic "motion smoothing" on the more recent TVs much more annoying. High frequency? Only if the TV had a bad design or a failing high voltage unit.

    CRTs do still have some uses. Off hand they are often the only way to properly view some games and software that were designed for CRTs. Newer monitors or TVs add delays, blur, wont display at the proper aspect ration, and so on. You could complain that everyone should also throw away their old games and buy new ones, but not eveyone wants to do that.

    • (Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday January 21 2018, @09:46AM

      by anubi (2828) on Sunday January 21 2018, @09:46AM (#625589) Journal

      When I was younger, EVERY television made a really annoying high-pitched whine.

      I could hear whether or not my neighbor had his TV on - but he had an exceptionally loud vacuum tube TV

      Magnetostriction of the ferrite in the horizontal output transformer and deflection yoke.

      Nothing anyone could do about it. Maybe isolating the entire high voltage section in a styrofoam padded sound insulative box, but I had never seen anyone do that. It could have been the deflection yoke sounding against the bell of the CRT for all I know.

      I had an extremely loud monochrome monitor at my workplace, and I used to keep a bottle of aspirin on the top of it, for the inevitable headaches spawned by that machine.

      Hell, I even hear the SMPS driving the fluorescent CCFL in my older flatscreen monitor, but I can't hear my laptop, nor the later LED/LCD monitors.

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      "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]