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3D sucks. Why would you want it?
Yeah, well, projector TV has its uses, but in my experience suffered two problems: brightness, especially off-axis, and chromatism or colour fringes around the edge of the picture (usually blue or red fringe) resulting from vestigial lateral color in the lenses.I use a projector, I can make the picture so big even a blind bastard like me doesn't need glasses.
Picture quality? Well, did you notice the comment about blind bastard?
I'm retired, don't follow things like I used to but in my experience, Walmart contracted with companies to make special "versions" of stuff for their stores made to a certain price point. So, if you buy a TV at Walmart, it is an inferior model they make just for Walmart cheaper for them than similar models sold elsewhere by using cheaper parts. But Philips is a big Dutch company (I have some Philips test equipment) and I doubt Walmart bought them. But you used to see a lot of Philips TVs---- another line which seems to have disappeared. Who knows, maybe Walmart bought them or their TV division and rebranded the name to a house brand.Mr Toobfreak, you seem knowledgeable about these things. Did Walmart buy Philips to make the ONN brand stuff?
You need to buy yourself a whole house energy arrester. The best ones are the gas discharge type. Then plug it into a UPS with over/under voltage regulation, battery backup and at least 150 joules of energy storage. The more the better. Also, unplug the stuff when a storm comes up.My latest projector is onn. I live off grid, I get a four foot by six foot picture using only 50 watts. This is my third projector in four years, they seem to be sensitive to lightning storms.
Thanks.Anyway, good luck in your TV search.
I like to watch t.v. with a beer in my hand, but my local bottle shop has 1137 different beers, and it is causing me a great deal of angst as I am trying to decide upon my evening selection.Filed under "1st world problems".
Well....Regular HDMI cables are cheesy throwaway crap. The good cables can run into a lot of money.
I have a 2009 Emerson and it still works great.I have owned Emerson's since the 1990's.
Well....
Some are just expensive but still throwaway crap.
Go with Samsung. They make the best screens in my opinion and ive never had a single issue with any of mine.Welp, my 2009 Mitsubishi 60” DLP TV was a goner again last night. I sat down to watch TV and eat something, relax, and BING! No picture, no sound, just a red status light. After about 30 minutes of fiddling, I was sure the TV was really DOA this time. At the very least salvageable only by a factory technician. But after a time of rest and reflection laying on my bed thinking about it watching my 1986 Hitachi 27” CRT bedroom TV which still works like a champ never a problem (they really make the BEST TVs), I got behind the thing, delved into it and resurrected it for now at least to live another day.
But my patience is broken. I’ve had it with DLP. I want a new TV with better technology and I would buy one today and pay any price, if but for a few things:
- 60” TVs are apparently no longer made. Selection is now down to either 55” or 65” and my speaker system is set up optimized for a 60” so I would have to reconfigure my speakers to fit a 65”.
- It must be stand mounted. I cannot do wall mount (not that I would want to) because my rear wall slants.
- My TV had a boatload of inputs for HDMI, component, composite, S-Video, RF in, outputs, you name it. And I use them all.
- I’m a name brand buyer: Hitachi, Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, Mitsubishi, but most TVs now are fuzzy brands I never even heard of. What’s an “Insignia?” "Hisense?" And please don’t even mention Samsung to me. Every Samsung product I've dealt with is crap.
Much to my dismay, all I found was marketing hype. Mind you, I was an electronics/electrical engineer who has a lot of background in video (I could probably design and make my own TV) and all I found was a couple of useful features (like 120Hz refresh rate which was just coming out new when I bought my TV). Instead, they hit you with
- 4XHD resolution (why do I need this when all my sources are 720 to 1080 at best?).
- LED technology, processing technology, backlighting technology (they are all nice, all good, not a critical choice). I guess plasma TV is long gone.
- Built in streaming services, Google, Roku, Apple, etc. I don’t use any of that crap and don’t even want Ethernet connected to my TV. Even the damn remote controls have buttons for all this stuff I do not want or need.
- The damn TVs now have 99 specs, 95 of which are of little to no value to the user. They have USB ports, optical output ports, BUT NO FREAKING INPUTS.
The ONE THING that matters, to a TV buyer you would think, is the capability to have the input range and scale needed to support your existing equipment, but that spec is buried in the specs and when you find it, the inputs are:
3 or 4 HDMI inputs! And at least one or two called HDMI 2.1 which probably means incompatible with regular HDMI. Probably an RF modulated input (antenna in), and if you are lucky, maybe ONE composite input. And that is it. Many of my devices were made before HDMI was even invented. Worse, I hate HDMI. But we are forced to use it because unlike DVI, HDMI allows the industry to spy on you and collect data on your viewing habits and things. And as I went up in price, $1000, $2000, $3000 and more, instead of getting more inputs, all it got me was more gingerbread technology fluff garbage features I do not need.
This really bothers me as I know how companies and engineers think: Designed Obsolescence. Instead of adding inputs to support older technology and gear, they want you to throw everything out TO BUY NEW. Gotta keep that return business! Hell, not only do I still have two professional Super-VHS tape decks that cost $800 each in 1988, but I even still have a Sony Laserdisc player! It is cool to fire it up once in a while. Back then, they used to make laserdiscs which had the full TAR (Theatrical aspect ratio / letter-boxing) which showed the FULL width of widescreen films even if the aspect ratio was 5:1.
Now when you buy a BluRay or DVD in widescreen, they still chop some of the ends off like pan and scan to fit the standard 16:9 HD widescreen format of today which isn’t very widescreen. I remember going to see Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World at the theater in 1963 that the screen was so wide, it was curved, and you had to look side to side to take it all in, you could not follow all the action at once. Oh what an experience going to see a movie used to be at one time. So now I am forced to consider just keeping my old TV and sinking money into it to keep it going, or looking for some sort of “converter box” that takes all these old interface formats like composite video, S-video, component video, DVI, etc., which then CONVERTS them into an HDMI output and hope the thing works half well.
Anyone ever try one of those?
Most of the good brands are gone. You can find Sony, Vizio, LG, Samsung (ugh), but not Hitachi, Pioneer Elite, Panasonic Prism, or Mitsubishi, and some others that used to be the best there was. Nearly all of it is Chinese or Korean made now.
I have a new 77 inch LG OLED on a drop mount that sits over the fireplace that kicks ass!!
And it cost $5K less than the 60 inch Sony we have in the game room.
I dont see how you cant find a good TV these days.
Its fun to watch some old movies in 3D sometimes.
Go with Samsung. They make the best screens in my opinion and ive never had a single issue with any of mine.
Regular HDMI cables are cheesy throwaway crap. The good cables can run into a lot of money.
There is a certain threshold you should try to meet. TV's from any brand can range from ultra cheap (under $100) to super expensive (over $50,000). You should get a Samsung 4k, 60-70 inch. Spend $800-$1000 and it will last for many years and not become obsolete within a few years.Any? How many have you gone through? My main TV is from 2009 with probably 60,000 hours use on it, and my other TV is from about 1986, an analog CRT with picture tube with even more use and still on its original picture tube! I refuse to have anymore TVs than that.
Granted, no comparison to the TVs of today, but I'm really only interested in 1020 HD resolution, and pretty good sound built in. 120Hz refresh rate. The color space of 1020 is all anyone needs and most of the rest of the stuff they pack into TVs now is pretty useless gingerbread with MARGINAL gains mainly aimed at gaming and geeks deep into streaming to keep pushing steaming onto people to replace cable. That and internet connectivity so people can surf the web on their TV (no interest to me as I already have a very good dedicated computer for that) and so that they can "plug into" your viewing and programming to collect data on users.
Also of no interest to me.
There is a certain threshold you should try to meet. TV's from any brand can range from ultra cheap (under $100) to super expensive (over $50,000). You should get a Samsung 4k, 60-70 inch. Spend $800-$1000 and it will last for many years and not become obsolete within a few years.
Welp, my 2009 Mitsubishi 60” DLP TV was a goner again last night. I sat down to watch TV and eat something, relax, and BING! No picture, no sound, just a red status light. After about 30 minutes of fiddling, I was sure the TV was really DOA this time. At the very least salvageable only by a factory technician. But after a time of rest and reflection laying on my bed thinking about it watching my 1986 Hitachi 27” CRT bedroom TV which still works like a champ never a problem (they really make the BEST TVs), I got behind the thing, delved into it and resurrected it for now at least to live another day.
But my patience is broken. I’ve had it with DLP. I want a new TV with better technology and I would buy one today and pay any price, if but for a few things:
- 60” TVs are apparently no longer made. Selection is now down to either 55” or 65” and my speaker system is set up optimized for a 60” so I would have to reconfigure my speakers to fit a 65”.
- It must be stand mounted. I cannot do wall mount (not that I would want to) because my rear wall slants.
- My TV had a boatload of inputs for HDMI, component, composite, S-Video, RF in, outputs, you name it. And I use them all.
- I’m a name brand buyer: Hitachi, Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, Mitsubishi, but most TVs now are fuzzy brands I never even heard of. What’s an “Insignia?” "Hisense?" And please don’t even mention Samsung to me. Every Samsung product I've dealt with is crap.
Much to my dismay, all I found was marketing hype. Mind you, I was an electronics/electrical engineer who has a lot of background in video (I could probably design and make my own TV) and all I found was a couple of useful features (like 120Hz refresh rate which was just coming out new when I bought my TV). Instead, they hit you with
- 4XHD resolution (why do I need this when all my sources are 720 to 1080 at best?).
- LED technology, processing technology, backlighting technology (they are all nice, all good, not a critical choice). I guess plasma TV is long gone.
- Built in streaming services, Google, Roku, Apple, etc. I don’t use any of that crap and don’t even want Ethernet connected to my TV. Even the damn remote controls have buttons for all this stuff I do not want or need.
- The damn TVs now have 99 specs, 95 of which are of little to no value to the user. They have USB ports, optical output ports, BUT NO FREAKING INPUTS.
The ONE THING that matters, to a TV buyer you would think, is the capability to have the input range and scale needed to support your existing equipment, but that spec is buried in the specs and when you find it, the inputs are:
3 or 4 HDMI inputs! And at least one or two called HDMI 2.1 which probably means incompatible with regular HDMI. Probably an RF modulated input (antenna in), and if you are lucky, maybe ONE composite input. And that is it. Many of my devices were made before HDMI was even invented. Worse, I hate HDMI. But we are forced to use it because unlike DVI, HDMI allows the industry to spy on you and collect data on your viewing habits and things. And as I went up in price, $1000, $2000, $3000 and more, instead of getting more inputs, all it got me was more gingerbread technology fluff garbage features I do not need.
This really bothers me as I know how companies and engineers think: Designed Obsolescence. Instead of adding inputs to support older technology and gear, they want you to throw everything out TO BUY NEW. Gotta keep that return business! Hell, not only do I still have two professional Super-VHS tape decks that cost $800 each in 1988, but I even still have a Sony Laserdisc player! It is cool to fire it up once in a while. Back then, they used to make laserdiscs which had the full TAR (Theatrical aspect ratio / letter-boxing) which showed the FULL width of widescreen films even if the aspect ratio was 5:1.
Now when you buy a BluRay or DVD in widescreen, they still chop some of the ends off like pan and scan to fit the standard 16:9 HD widescreen format of today which isn’t very widescreen. I remember going to see Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World at the theater in 1963 that the screen was so wide, it was curved, and you had to look side to side to take it all in, you could not follow all the action at once. Oh what an experience going to see a movie used to be at one time. So now I am forced to consider just keeping my old TV and sinking money into it to keep it going, or looking for some sort of “converter box” that takes all these old interface formats like composite video, S-video, component video, DVI, etc., which then CONVERTS them into an HDMI output and hope the thing works half well.
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