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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) by Immerman on Monday January 22 2018, @03:43PM

    by Immerman (3985) on Monday January 22 2018, @03:43PM (#626104)

    That's nice for automation, but probably overkill for physical buttons. I almost never use a remote, my TV's primary function is a computer monitor within arm's reach, and even watching "TV" is either via PC using a wireless mouse as "remote", or via chromecast, which seizes control of the TV anyway. Otherwise I'm playing console games, in which case I pretty much have to go stand by the TV to put in the right disc, so pushing a source select button is no extra effort. Sound is all on pass-through a separate speaker system, so the TV volume doesn't do anything useful. And I've never had the thing connected to cable or an antenna. Basically, power and source select are the only buttons that ever get used.

    I'm all for including nice features for those who want to automate/integrate - and given the fact that it's all software with zero marginal cost, there's very little reason not to do it right. If Samsung put one $100k developer on it for a year, the resulting improvements would cost them less than one penny per set within the first year.

    But it's also important not to leave out basic physical buttons on the TV, so you can still use it when the remote is lost, dead, etc.

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