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An expensive TV is a poor investment, and people spend FAR too much on them

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Gyro:
'Suspension of disbelief' if very hard to maintain for many technical folks watching movies. Surely the production teams are supposed to have a technical advisor on the payroll. Certainly old war movies always had a couple of retired army or navy types as advisors. Maybe their technical advisors studied arts subjects these days!  ::)

jonovid:
simple and cheap I have been buying dumb TV's for yrs.  4k is overrated IMO as most moves are in 2K or 1080p.
smart features like USB and 720p upscaling are standard nowadays so why pay more?
most dumb TV's screen size is about right for the room and have no internet hardware and or software to go out of date or stop working.
3D TV was a total failure as was most of the other expensive $ gimmicks.  ::)
my cheap dumb TV lives out its life as a video monitor for games & video playback. most family members are the same. :-+

Ranayna:
Modern cheap TVs have one big, major issue: Advertising.
Why do you think they are cheap? Why is a simple display that does not even have any TV functionality, but uses the same panel, significantly more expensive?

Advertising and data collection.

I would willingly pay more for a TV that while still having at least limited smart functionality, does not show me any additional advertising (over what the TV stations are doing anyway).
I am soon in the market for something new, and still have no idea what to get.
I want something simple to use, that does not take ages to change channels, with an integrated DVB-S2 receiver, and limited "smarts" to access the internet offerings of the german public tv stations, that does not show any additional ads anywhere.

It's for my mum, and she likes it simple. Understandably so.

tom66:
I like good visual quality, so I own a Panasonic 42" plasma TV from 2012.

It has excellent image contrast, dynamic range and colour accuracy.  Films look pretty good on it.
 
It's not 4K, just full HD 1080p.  It has smart functions, I've used them once.  It has active-shutter 3D, I've used that maybe twice.  It's just a big, nice display monitor right now.

It cost me £120 second-hand,  so probably worthwhile.

The only thing that could replace it is an OLED.

themadhippy:

--- Quote ---TVs used to just have 4 buttons on the tuner: BBC1, 2, ITV, Ch4
--- End quote ---
only since 1982,you youngster wont remember the days when the 4'th button was either the betamax video recorder or itv from another region,of course if your even older  all you had was bbc (1) or itv

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