Best Buy: $50 24" Fire TV 720p

[eljefino]

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/insign...-led-hd-smart-fire-tv/6491295.p?skuId=6491295

Got one for camp, mostly for OTA TV reception. Sale ends tonight. They also have a 32 incher for a few bucks more.

 

[DFWoilguy]

Nice deal!! Might pick one up for my main driver E350!!

They must be purging old inventory of HD screens and going to FHD on all sizes next year??

 

[eljefino]

The inventory purge makes sense. My local BB has pallets of TVs everywhere that aren't moving. Odds are good these could be on closeout after Xmas.

 

[Rmay635703]

Nice deal!! Might pick one up for my main driver E350!!

They must be purging old inventory of HD screens and going to FHD on all sizes next year??

It’s actually harder to find small FHD TVs these days than 2010-2018
Most of the “ monitors “ off the shelf are bigger than I would prefer and always FHD, finding 1440 or 4k monitors at retail is rare, Sam’s these days has exactly 2 monitors on the floor . 20-30 years ago they had 2 full aisles of monitors and PCs.

I ended up buying 2 cheap ancient 22” FHD TVs to fit my desk space because I couldn’t find reasonably priced monitors in the size and price range I wanted.
Sadly the old Visio FHD which I bought because i was told syncs to 1920x1200 resolution uses sub pixels to do so, panel is physically 1680x1050.
The image quality as a FHD 1920x1200 display oddly is very legible down to very small text. I don’t notice any color banding but am told that is usually the side affect of using sub pixels to achieve FHD.

I almost bought an 18.5” 4k portable Monitor off Aliexpress but that’s too small and it doesn’t have a proper stand. My desk sadly doesn’t really support much more than a 22-23” display.

The only true FHD 22” screen I have is a Samsung TV but it uses as irritating dc power supply and on hdmi the color is absolutely horrible and hard to adjust, it also won’t sync to 1920x1200. Image does look good on vga though

 

[mr_boring]

I've got the 32 version in my bedroom. It's a TV. It works. It plays TV shows and movies.

One of the benefits to declining vision is that my 6 month old 32 Insignia picture looks as good as my 4 year old living room Samsung.

I miss plasma tvs........ they were always (IMO) a step above any LCD/LED - except for maybe the most expensive OLEDs.

 

[NormanBuntz]

You get what you pay for with the Insignia brand. My Insignia 22 inch TV for my home office lasted two years before crapping out. My daughter's Insignia washing machine took a dump after four years.

 

[99Saturn]

Thanks for posting. Still active, ordered one for pickup... debating if I actually want it, but $50 is pretty cheap.

 

[Lubener]

You get what you pay for with the Insignia brand. My Insignia 22 inch TV for my home office lasted two years before crapping out. My daughter's Insignia washing machine took a dump after four years.

My 46 inch Insignia is going strong at 12 years old now. It had the best picture at the time I bought it.

 

[Rmay635703]

Thanks for posting. Still active, ordered one for pickup... debating if I actually want it, but $50 is pretty cheap.

Insignia sets are VERY difficult to get tech specs on.

I am quite certain the panel inside is not 720p in reality (1366x768 is more likely, though 1280x800 is possible given the physical dimensions)

I’m trying to find the panel # and manufacturer because a few 720p sets are sleeper sets that have a higher physical resolution inside making them more useful. (Aka for console gaming or video meetings)

One of my antique “720p” TVs actually had a strange 1600x900 resolution panel (the second tv I ever bought), my folks small 720p tv in the motorhome 19”? Was physically a 1440x900 resolution

It’s honestly perplexing that anything below FHD is still produced considering there is no cost savings for lower resolution panels, in fact small TVs historically always shared panels with monitors to save cost and would end up whatever strange commodity resolution was being used at the time.
heck some of the fake game boys with a 4” screen have a 1600x1440 resolution panel. (Though I guess I said that same thing in 2010 as useless 15,17 and 19” pc monitors kept being manufactured despite causing issues with menus not fitting on screen in then Current windows)



my very first so called 1080i big screen HD TV (at the time 32” was big) was only 1366x768 internally (false advertisement) and actually wouldn’t sync up to a progressive VGA signal above 1280x1024 and my pc at the time couldn’t output 16:9 resolutions so no idea if you could actually drive the full native panel resolution.
It was so old I think the best inputs were vga or component. (Might have had a dvi as well)
At that time I was using a PC for DVD and this made it irrating to try to send properly scaled content.