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