Hermann
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Really don't care, I'm doing nothing wrong except being a BITOG user.
Sometimes their spying is beneficial. If you have a cell phone it is doing far more spying.
Who makes a good TV?
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Sometimes their spying is beneficial. If you have a cell phone it is doing far more spying.
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Only as good as QA that day. All TVs these days are good.
AutoMechanic
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True. Nowadays what isn’t spying on you though?
Zee09
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Several wrongs don't make a right...
Sony knows picture quality, but haven't always been bulletproof. Back in the CRT days, the models assembled at the plant in San Diego weren't up to par with the Japanese models. After their patent expired, and others started making aperture-grille tubes, there were other good options, including from Mitsubishi, which made some nice gear.
I'm still using an HD Sony that's about 15 years old, made in Mexico by Flextronics IIRC. It has exceeded expectations, and when it croaks, will be much cheaper to replace. But I don't its replacement to last nearly as long.
I rarely have that problem. Every once in a great while when the audio starts to get weird I reboot. Usually weeks or months though
You can't buy any smart device that isn't spying. That's why they are cheap. You can run a PiHole on your network which helps block bad stuff and spying at the DNS level.
I have 4 Roku Ultras. 2 get used daily and the other 2 not as much.
Propflux01
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How about an LG and a Denon AVR..!
LG picture is great, but that magic remote simply sucks.
I meant streaming services
At least every month or so we have to power ours down
We use 10-12 services
DirectTV Stream, Netflix, Paramount, Peacock (for Motocross/Supercross), Amazon.
We have those they seem to be problem free. PBS, Apple TV, Kanopy maybe Disney seem to lock up most. Like memory glitches maybe. Thanks
Those really were the days my friend!
I do have a Fire Stick 4K Max plugged in and use it often. It does not work for the LG channels built into the set, so a hard-wire connection to a router is necessary for them to function.
Agreed. Have a Hisense 65" Roku R7 series about 7 years old in our beach house. Picture is awesome and it works flawlessly. Have 2 Hisense Roku TVs in the primary home a 55" and a 58"...both work great with excellent picture quality.
Have a 75" Hisense in the basement with the Google OS...great picture and you get used to the Google OS easily enough but it's neither as intuitive nor fast as Roku.
Some 20 years ago now I bought something like 10 LG flat screen tv's for a school. They were hard used all day long and we only had one go wrong and that was promptly fixed under warranty. So LG was once a good brand. I don't know what's happened to them because I wouldn't touch one now - too many tales of failure and diabolical service when they do fail. That's both TV's and white goods like washers. One customer had a failed washer which took months to get fixed under warranty.
If you get really critical one thing you’ll notice on a very good TV vs a cheap TV is gradient color banding. Another thing is peak brightness. Cheap sets do a poor job on those two things. There are other things of course. I gave my nephew a 65” Hisense U7H which is a good TV for the money. I think the newest one today is the U7K.
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