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

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eti:
As title says, I think an expensive TV is a VERY VERY poor  investment, and people spend FAR too much on them, and yet it seems that the quality of the acting and presentation from the TV stations is getting worse and worse.

I cannot see how anyone can justify anything over £500, **maybe** £600, for a flat oblong that sits there and doesn't show you ANYTHING "better" than the last flat oblong you owned, did. People who "pixel peep" and get all hung up on OLED, Qdot, LCD etc... who cares? You only take interest in this nonsense because you are marketed to, by the TV companies, who blurt out all these fandangled acroynms, and because all your mates down the pub are also too easily impressed by all these acronyms (and because of the ever idiotic "Keeping up with the Jones' " effect). People are SO easily fooled - look at any "X brand vs Y brand" food/drink taste test - even self-proclaimed "experts" cannot tell one from the other.

Further, the investment you make, cash wise, is a VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY poor one, since the price you paid will crash through the floor in 1 year, and in another 2 years from then, you will either see your TV as "outdated" (marketing BS again) or it will melt, collapse, dissolved into a heap of raspberry sherbet... or whatever. All this nonsense, FOR WHAT? It's a flat thing that shows you the same RUBBISH you can see on any other TV, many of which are hugely more affordable.

Someone recently gave me a 43" LG 4K TV, as it was being thrown out due to the blue LED syndrome of the backlight; they'd rather spend £2,000-3,000 on a new TV, vs £100 for the repair.

A friend of mine runs his own, very successful industrial plant hire and earth moving business, which he started from nothing, ALONE. He once told me about a friend in the same business who was more preoccupied with "image" and "prestige" than just buying a tool for a decent price (because it's just a tool, and the tool is moving earth, not flying people across the world) - he said that the friend would buy a brand new CAT/JCB etc, and then my friend would be in disbelief, as his friend would NEVER recoup the lost premium he paid for a brand new CAT/JCB - it's all shine and mark-up. Since the new tool is no more capable of moving earth than the bargain he got for 1/10th of the cost at auction, set his hand to and repaired for a fraction of the price, I can only agree.

I. Just. Don't. Get. It. WHY?

magic:
Watching TV in the first place... ::)

eti:

--- Quote from: magic on February 01, 2022, 08:30:51 pm ---Watching TV in the first place... ::)

--- End quote ---

There seems to be this new, strange form of (inverted?) snobbery where people consider TV as a waste of time, across the board. No, where we live, in England, we are known for some spectacular acting and production levels, but I do not watch as much TV as many. However, writing ALL TV off as "bad", depends on where you live, but that certainly isn't the case in the UK (or maybe people just have poor taste - and looking at the TV schedules here... YEP, they VERY VERY much have APPALLING taste!)

I pick carefully the handful of things I want to watch, and I am not one to watch dumbed-down "documentaries" aimed at the great unwashed, that are 1/100th as sensible and informative as they were in the 70s-90s.

BrokenYugo:


The sooner you make peace with it and let them go be dumb, the happier you will be.

eti:

--- Quote from: BrokenYugo on February 01, 2022, 08:43:17 pm ---

The sooner you make peace with it and let them go be dumb, the happier you will be.

--- End quote ---

My being eternally baffled with it makes me no less "at peace" with it, as you say. I am not bothered, just find it strange. People are capable of not caring at all, whilst being simultaneously baffled and curious as to why something occurs.

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