Television sets, what to get

[jimmyj]

Thanks for the heads up, I'll stay away from them! Who makes a Kubota quality TV? (6 pages, someone had to say it!)

My wife got right ornery when I said I was going to paint the new TV orange!

 

[dmccarty]

My wife got right ornery when I said I was going to paint the new TV orange!

Smart women. She knows that Green is the color of quality.

Try to paint the TV JD Green. I think she will be ok with that color. :thumbsup:

Later,
Dan

 

[jimmyj]

All I say about that is.....

 

[Brad_Blazer]

I work for Corning so I have to say thanks for buying LCD. I am very happy with my 46" Samsung LED edgelit.

Some features coming soon are frameless screens (picture extends to the edge) and Gorilla Glass cover glass.

If you can receive local broadcast and you have high speed internet you can ditch the cable and satellite providers and subscribe to Netflix or a similar service for about $10/month. I pay $11/month for Netflix to mail me blue-ray disks plus provide streaming video on demand which includes lots of movies and plenty of TV series from the Addams Family to Mythbusters to Nip and Tuck. It is wild watching those TV shows without commercials. The episodes don't last 20 minutes. Resolution is very good but digital compression is noticeable over swaths of similar color.

Some TV's and many blue-ray players have the interface for Netflix. You can also get a free disk from them which allows you to use a Wii or other game console. My Samsung blue-ray player has an ethernet port and I have it wired to my router with a 50' cat5 cable. If you get the same brand of player and TV the remotes work well together and share many functions. Look specifically for Netflix as a device feature. I think the Blockbuster service is very similar. The way it works is that you manage your lists of instant-view and Blue-ray movies on the computer. On the TV, your instant-view list is all that you see. It's all online so you can log in and watch the instant movies on any computer with a high speed connection. It doesn't matter if someone else is watching a movie at the same time on your account.

I haven't added it up but I am sure the money saved by not paying for cable/satellite and not buying so many movies on disk more than pays for the new TV.

Brad

 

[KB9UDE]

We have an LG 42" LCD in the living room

 

[KB9UDE]

And also one in the master bedroom. Kids room has the old 27" tube style tv.

 

[Wooddust]

Our TV is 27 yrs old. We may be the last home in the USA to have a TV that old. And we only have one TV.


I know soon the old bugger will blow and I dread it.

All this tech talk makes my head hurt. But I suppose that is progress.

 

[jinman]

Our TV is 27 yrs old. We may be the last home in the USA to have a TV that old. And we only have one TV.


I know soon the old bugger will blow and I dread it.

All this tech talk makes my head hurt. But I suppose that is progress.

Funny thing about TVs is that they have maintained or come down in price for the same size screen while improving the picture dramatically. If you go buy a new similar sized LCD screen today, I'd bet it will be lighter, brighter, and cheaper than your current model was when new. Your TV sounds like it was in the era when the Sony Trinitron was the latest and greatest TV on the market.

BTW: I have a 35" tube type Philips HDTV that weighs 200 lb. When it blows up, I may cut it up into pieces so I don't have to lift the whole thing. My main living area is on the 2nd floor and I had to use my tractor to lift the TV up to get it into my house.

 

[Wooddust]

Funny thing about TVs is that they have maintained or come down in price for the same size screen while improving the picture dramatically. If you go buy a new similar sized LCD screen today, I'd bet it will be lighter, brighter, and cheaper than your current model was when new. Your TV sounds like it was in the era when the Sony Trinitron was the latest and greatest TV on the market.

BTW: I have a 35" tube type Philips HDTV that weighs 200 lb. When it blows up, I may cut it up into pieces so I don't have to lift the whole thing. My main living area is on the 2nd floor and I had to use my tractor to lift the TV up to get it into my house.

I started the upgrade process last winter. Looked into various TV's, figure to replace my Bose surround sound since the CD cartridge wont eject....gonna maybe take a big screwdriver to it when the time comes, will do the bluray thing...we don't have DVD player yet, and may even give up on having a VCR but LOML says we still need to have it just in case she wants to watch something( she has not in 5 years but...)

It wont be a huge TV probably 42 inch cause we cannot have a TV dominate the decorating scheme and Ill build the cabinet to fit whatever we buy. Ive been told that the cabinet must look like the one we have now that I built 10 years ago.

Its hard when life gives you such strict requirements. In the meantime the Magnavox still keeps cooking along. Plus its like going to a museum for my high tech friends.

 

[jinman]

I started the upgrade process last winter. Looked into various TV's, figure to replace my Bose surround sound since the CD cartridge wont eject....gonna maybe take a big screwdriver to it when the time comes, will do the bluray thing...we don't have DVD player yet, and may even give up on having a VCR but LOML says we still need to have it just in case she wants to watch something( she has not in 5 years but...)

We have neighbors who have an extensive video tape library and have offered to loan us tapes. We have a VCR, but it's not even hooked up. We have become so accustomed to DVDs and now Blu-ray that normal video tape is a hassle. Even so, VCRs are dirt cheap and will not put a huge dent in your budget if you have to keep peace in the family.