Who makes a good TV?

Bought a new house in 2017. Bought 4 new Vizio's to go in it. I forget the size. Pretty big. 1 got zapped by a power surge during a bad storm....Friggin trees !!! Then I installed a gigantic whole house surge protector on the breaker panel. The other 3 are still going strong. No problems. Still have bad storms, but the surge protector really works well. Friggin trees !!!
 
alarmguy said:
Is that a 67 GTO in your photo?
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65 Tempest Custom

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Still running a 50 inch Sanyo plasma purchased in 2008 IIRC. Too heavy for my 81 year old carcass to tote out. Never burned in,maybe it'll die before I do. Wonder how much electricity I've burned through. Into podcasts rather than viewing and watch a cheapo Onn in the bedroom, so less than a decade ago.
 
csandste said:
Still running a 50 inch Sanyo plasma purchased in 2008 IIRC. Too heavy for my 81 year old carcass to tote out. Never burned in,maybe it'll die before I do. Wonder how much electricity I've burned through. Into podcasts rather than viewing and watch a cheapo Onn in the bedroom, so less than a decade ago.
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When my wife and I purchased our first home in 1999, the very first TV we bought for our family room, was a 27" CRT by Sanyo; you hardly see the brand today. I'm running a 50" LED RCA in our current family room.
 
GSCJR said:
When my wife and I purchased our first home in 1999, the very first TV we bought for our family room, was a 27" CRT by Sanyo; you hardly see the brand today. I'm running a 50" LED RCA in our current family room.
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Sanyo was sold off to Panasonic in 2009 and they later sold off the TV business to Funai and some Chinese company I have never heard of.
 
Sadly, TVs are more about the software they run than anything. Our Samsung has been annoying and we just use the Chromecast in it. Our TCL with Roku is easier.
 
Scamazon has lots of good Bluetooth amps that you can use with any old speakers. My 65" Lg, probably 5 years old now, sounds good using a fosi amp and some used surround sound speakers with a sub. It never sounded good with the sound bar so its now part of my garage setup.
 
xspeedy said:
Sadly, TVs are more about the software they run than anything. Our Samsung has been annoying and we just use the Chromecast in it. Our TCL with Roku is easier.
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We never run the native software on TVs.
Never even tried any of them including that on our more mid tier Sony 900x (or something like that)
We always run external Roku players
 
I just sold a very decent 5.1 system that I had setup in our beach house and replaced it with a Samsung HWB-650 3.1 soundbar.
I actually believe the sound bar provides better overall audio than the 5.1 system in the large space(kitchen and living room) it's setup in.
 
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