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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) by ledow on Sunday January 21 2018, @07:15PM (1 child)
1) Projector (kids can't break that by touching the image, and can bolt it high up on a wall / ceiling).
2) Any SmartTV with the smart turned off / disabled.
3) Investigate digital signage companies and even things like interactive touchscreens aimed at schools. The latter are in the same price ranges as TV's now and HUGE (65"+ minimum), and they are generally just image-pushers rather than anything fancy (though you can often buy an Android module or even an entire PC to slot inside them).
Pretty much, buy yourself a DISPLAY device, then worry about what you're going to display on it via some other method. A set-top-box. A Chromecast. A media PC. Netflix from a console. Whatever. It doesn't matter.
But, to be honest, I'd go for the method that's least likely to suffer the same fate. Scary stories about Samsung were enough to put you off them, but you still just want to buy another 65" LED flatscreen and put it back in the same place with a house full of kids? To me, that scream projector, unless you have a specific reason not to (e.g. very bright direct sunlight).
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday January 22 2018, @04:10PM
I got a cheapo $50 range projector from Amazon and it works pretty good, even with a somewhat bright room. The issue it has now, is the wife treated it like her TV. Turn it on and leave it on. That resulted in her having burnt the screen on the inside of the projector, so now it has a nice yellow tinge in one section of the screen. Still, can't beat it for setting it up as a second screen to put YouTube on for the kid.
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