Quick question about tvs

rsvman2 · 2025-07-27T15:29:27+00:00

Anybody here an expert in tvs? In our family room there is a recessed hole for the tv, with doors that close over it. The house was built in 2000, before the...

KCee

stroh It's funny we went from 50" to 65" which is a decent jump, but that was the most we could fit in the living room as it's between 2 windows.

I suggested either re-arranging the living so that there could be a larger TV on the inside wall that the couch is up against or re-arranging the family room and putting a huge TV on the big wall there. Neither option was agreeable to my wife as she has taken over the family room as an art studio and likes how the living room is now.

Maybe once my youngest is gone I could take over the room in the basement and fit a bigger TV, but I'm already at the downsizing phase of my life so that will probably never happen. I may be back to a 50" TV soon 😞

Rickochet

I have 4 32" TV's and one 42". They are "dumb" TV's that I got before "smart" tv's came out. 4 are RCA and one is Visio. All bought at Walmart. A 32" RCA at my desk croaked two weeks ago so I pulled it's twin from the workshop. This one might be an LED TV. The screen is super bright. They all have the same crappy speakers so I have a Zvox sound box hooked to it that allows me to adjust the center sound channel to help my old ears with dialogue. Works sort of ok. I get good cable from my local electric company that also provides phone and internet. I stream stuff with an Amazon Fire Stick. I have everything I need. I have been looking for a new 32" with better speakers built in but that is like searching for a unicorn. Plus everything is "smart" which is shit I don't want or need. Just more shit to screw up and break.

rsvman2

Had decided to go with the Samsung, but when we got to Costco, both my wife and I thought the picture on the LG looked better.

We asked the worker which 50-inch he would choose for himself, and he answered that he would take the LG.

It was a sweep. So we bought the LG.

Thanks to all for your comments.

Par4QC

rsvman2 I have an LG in my basement. Have had it for around 9 years, and before that it was used in the hotel community area for a few years. Assembly was in Mexico, but cannot see the date because of the mount. But 'old' by today's standards.
Never a problem, still works perfect.....pic/color/etc..

The sound comes from the top/back. Even if I could hear well, I'd hate that part about it. Always on mute/captions.😉

Spartan

We have a 60" LG. It's got to be 9 or 10 years old. No problems with it (knock on wood).

LBlack14

I don't want to jinx myself, but my 15-year-old, 50" Sanyo, is still going strong.

LBlack14

LBlack14 I don't want to jinx myself, but my 15-year-old, 50" Sanyo, is still going strong.

Well hell. 🙄

Walterjn

Boss lady bought me a 50" vizeo for Christmas one year. She decided that I needed a tv that I didn't fix 1st.
Granted, this was after my 50+" vizeo plasma she was using went out again and she picked up a 50" vizeo led, and after I fixed the 40" Samsung that had the screen go black.
The 50" replaced the Samsung i was using, and that one went back to her spare room, for me to watch when I was house sitting.

mulegolf

propman have u checked out youtube tv?

I think my son has that or another like it. I've been tempted. The biggest reason for holding off is that I
like the lineup of channels my local provider has for me. If they'd just get better at keeping it working
for me I'd be happy but it's down so often it drives me crazy. Of course they play the game at least half
the time I call that it's not their equipment that's not working, it's mine. My modem is brand new. I
installed it when they did the "upgrade" and bought what they told me to buy.

propman

mulegolf in all probability, you'll save a chunk of $$ swtlitching over to youtube.
Plus no cable boxes to contend with. Place your TV anywhere in the house. Chances are youtube will have all the channels you desire (check their channel lineup on line).
Not sure now but they did offer a free 30 day (or 60, don't remember) trial period.

One negative-switching channels can be clunky but us senior citizens adapted quite quickly.

KCee

propman We have YouTube TV and it is really good, but it's also over $80 now. Was about $40 when we first got it. I do like the unlimited DVR feature. Now that we have only 1 kid that is hardly around and me not watching a lot of tv it seems too expensive....or I'm just getting cheaper in my old age.

propman

KCee no doubt it's gone up in price.
But where us empty nesters live still alot cheaper than cable and much less of a hassle to deal with.

KCee

propman I do like it, but just internet alone is $120 for us now and then adding YT TV puts us at $200. Doesn't even include Netflix or anything else we may be signed up for. Feel like I'm basically back at cable. Unfortunately we have basically 1 choice for hi speed internet here so we get bent over for that.

jsippy73

KCee
If you can get it in your area get T Mobile home internet. I pay $50 a month for life. I think they are offering it for $35 now. No hookups of any kind. Just a cellular router. Have that plus YouTube TV for years.
Others also offer the cellular internet. ATT, Verizon.

propman

Think we pay about $65 for internet.

sdandrea1

LBlack14

Nice👍

KCee

jsippy73 I looked at cellular but no one is offering here. Maybe because we don't have good cell service here. Verizon said they were going to but still haven't. I can go less than a mile away and would have many options, but not here.

jsippy73

KCee
Tower is about a mile from me.

stroh

Luckily our HOA dues include internet and a pretty decent cable package. I hardly ever watch tv, so it's fine for me. A little sports, HGTV, the news. etc. I'm fine. Outside of where we live used to cost us over 260 bucks for something comparable.

I have to have cable. I can't have streaming. I need to click channel after channel and then have something spoon fed to me.

If I have a streaming menu in front of me I starve. I can't pick anything. Last flight, had it for free. 3:40 flight, never watched a thing. Couldn't choose.

KCee

jsippy73 My stupid town kept voting down a tower. We're lucky they put a new one in the next town over and it boosted the signal at my house enough that our cell phones work well now. I should maybe look to see if they offer any satellite internet here.

jsippy73

KCee Do you receive 5G on your phone?

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