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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 VLM on Sunday January 21 2018, @05:03PM
Yeah well you asked for it.
I got a nice new TV a couple years ago and no one watches it anymore.
The "gather in one room" still happens but the kids are watching youtube or chatting with friends on their school supplied tablets, and my wife is scrolling facebook on her phone or texting friends and family, etc. They aren't watching the TV, but they still bitch if I put on what I want instead of what they like as background noise. For some reason my wife can scroll facebook to the sound of a cooking show but not to the sound of a modded minecraft lets play video.
The cultural activity of "Simpsons TV show sit on couch watch the TV" is dead already. Its not as much of a cultural requirement as it was in the 80s, lets say. I predict the family would enjoy some nice tablets a lot more than they'd enjoy an expensive legacy TV. Sounds like only the wife is complaining... buy her a nice tablet and roll with it. Her memories of "family time" being everyone watching "the" TV show together are dead, not gonna happen in the future, just like nobody does the "Little House on the Prairie" thing of harnessing the oxen to the cart to go to church anymore, its just done. Maybe instead, take her to a Renaissance Faire on date night, see if she gets the idea.