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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @05:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @05:23PM (#625706)

    Both of those devices are linux based, but I am lead to understand neither has wifi capabilities (although there may be other dangers, whether HDMI-CEC or Ethernet over HDMI.

    They are both available via Fry's stores or frys.com website, as well as possibly other sources, and seem to range from 42" to 65", possibly with a 70+ inch option. They are all reasonably low end models, ranging in sale price from ~230 dollars up to ~600 dollars for the largest models.

    Worth a looksee, but you may need to watch out for response latency and other issues. I have only been interested in them as possible monitor replacements and have so far kept to desktop monitors due to space limitations, so I cannot provide you any firsthand experience.