Flopper
Diamond Member
What I would like in a TV is the ability to easy fill my screen with the picture regardless of picture format. Streaming services like Netflix and Prime force the viewer to watch the program in the format it was created. So on my big screen I may get letterbox, or even worst if I happen to be watching a movie from the 50's or 60's when movie studios were playing around with various widescreen formats. For unknown reason, when I watch cable I can spread the picture out to fill the screen regardless of the channel. My eyes are not what they use to be so the bigger the picture the better and I am not too concerned with the distortion caused from changing the size.Well, I just bought two TVs, I bought the larger one I spoke of needing for my home theater moving up from a 60" to a 65" since they don't make 60s anymore, and realized that with them coming here to take away my old TV, this would be a good time to get rid of my old 1986(?) Hitachi CRT as well, friend that it is. 27” CRTs are heavy as hell, the thing was a brute to carry up the steps many years ago as it was and there is no way I’d try to lift and carry it down the steps now, not to mention you can't just throw a TV away anymore, I'd have to load it in my trunk and drive it 30 minutes out south of me far away, sit in a long line to get rid of it now, plus the picture has been getting dim for years anyway, the lion’s share of electrons having boiled off the cathode of the tube years ago—— it is still watchable but obviously not the bright picture it once was, so I relented to part with it and get a new LED TV in its place that will also have a digital tuner built in now so will no longer need my outboard D/A tuner I’ve been using which converts to analog RF modulated to input to the old set! I'm replacing it with a 40" wide screen HD TV.
So that’s about it! I get both sets in about a week, delivered and installed, old TVs hauled away, and I’ll have more to say then as I did a major research on the whole field of TVs and could have bought anything, but as I will explain, actually eschewed getting the latest and greatest features and technology finding that I was actually paying for a lot of crap I didn’t want or need and the newest technology is actually not as ideal for my needs as slightly older but better proven technology, and I found a brand that has less techno-crap on it and is more basic but actually better designed and a better fit to my needs more centered on just good ol' TV watching and even has a better assortment of inputs and things much more costly TVs often fail to have!
Anyone considering a TV in their future will want to hear what I found out as reading through 30 or more websites on the matter and ratings and comparos of brands and features, none of them give very good real world info instead putting the sets on a test bench and measuring them with lab test equipment which doesn’t actually mean as much as just sitting down and USING the set!
I would have bought the sets sooner but I’ve had a lot of other things here to deal with and finally got back yesterday to crawling behind the TV gear and disconnecting a whole bunch of cords and wires and things so that now, all that is left to do before they take my current TV is to pull the plug and three HDMI cables.
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