I bought the 75" U6 6 months ago. Great TV and picture. The Google OS isn't my first choice, but it does have it's good points if you're an Android or Google device user.
Who makes a good TV?
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Up in the North East "The days" would be the late 80's.
Nakamichi OMS 5A CD, Bedini 802 or Eagle7A, Martin Logan or Magnepan with Monster M1000 or CARDAS wiring.
If you can barely lift your amp without throwing out your back - then it's likely got some real current dumping capability
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10 years ago I would agree but its Not possible these days, all good TVs have "Smart" built into them. Only TVs that don't are ultra budget ones.
Debating TV repair rates is not unlike discussing vehicle reliability.
For every owner who has never had an issue with their Samsung, there are those who remember when a large portion of their model line suffered from capacitor failure, and necessitated an expensive service campaign.
When the Samsung in the conference room went on the fritz, company owner was expecting to have to buy a new one, unaware of the issue.
Scheduled a free, on-site repair = happy boss. Repeated practice had rendered the task a quick and efficient process for the tech.
For every owner who has never had an issue with their Samsung, there are those who remember when a large portion of their model line suffered from capacitor failure, and necessitated an expensive service campaign.
When the Samsung in the conference room went on the fritz, company owner was expecting to have to buy a new one, unaware of the issue.
Scheduled a free, on-site repair = happy boss. Repeated practice had rendered the task a quick and efficient process for the tech.
To be fair to Roku, those are probably app problems and not related to the Roku hardware or OS.
Probably/could be. Rebooting the Roku is not difficult and takes seconds, but definitely clears the current "clog". I mean compared to how lousy the LG talks to everything else, the software interfaces between hundreds of streaming companies and Roku is pretty darn amazing (I know NOTHING of this architecture)
Agree. We have two ultras right now but have cut the cable and used Roku players gosh for so long I cant even tell you. 13 years? Most likely more. (you know when cutting the cable was something considered extreme)
Always used them on all the TVs no matter what built in players the TVs had as it made the whole house consistent across all TVs as our other house had 5 TVs before downsizing.
Anyway, hard pressed to remember an issue with any of them. I am sure there was a hiccup here or there just cant remember.
The thing we always loved about the Roku players is with each new generation they had faster processors and improvements. That doesnt happen with TVs. One thing we hate about the new Ultra's are the elimination of the batteries in the remote. I know many people might feel differently. But I rather change batteries every year to a couple years. Then take the remote and plug it into a USB to charge it. Sometimes you realize the charge is low at the last minute. Though my wife kind of keeps tabs on it now.
Charge in our Ultras lasts a long time and Roku was smart enough to make it usable while charging. I just hope the internal rechargeables last a long time!
Ok, I take that back!
I just checked with the wife on the last time she charged it, she said "oh a long time ago" SO I turned on the TV and just checked the charge on our main most used one and its still at 42%>
When we first got it, now maybe two years ago? for some reason it would run down right away. Meaning a month or two, happened maybe two times possibly even a third. I think I even went and posted a negative review about it. I then thought my wife was keeping an eye on them but she hasn't, it's been a long time.
Maybe we got a first GEN (?) of the Ultra with rechargeable and a firmware update did something I dont know but its all good now and has been.
Oddly enough the ones without smart functions are sometimes much more expensive (depending on the size) they get sold as if they are a monitor with a tv tuner and speakers for quite a bit more $$$$
Saw that nonsense when I was looking for a small but FHD TV, everything was 720p and smart/cheap, the only FHD one was not smart and not cheap.
As I noted to the op, tons of clearance at Sam’s club, worth a glance, as long as the tech is good enough just grab a $350 75” set.
Considering how hit and miss quality is and the fact people want to upgrade fairly often just get the least expensive you can with the tech you want and don’t look back.
Most of the high end stuff at the moment is garbage reliability , no different than lower tiers.
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