hilltop87
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Post by hilltop87 on Jul 20, 2020 20:56:18 GMT -5
I bought a Sony Wega LCD 42 inch TV. It was a good one. Cost me I think about $2500.
It finally crapped out. I replaced it with a Samsung 40 inch Smart HDTV. It cost $249.
Hello.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jul 20, 2020 21:00:20 GMT -5
Yup.
I got a 37” Sharp for my 30th birthday: $1300
My last was a 55” Toshiba Smart TV, $329.
That 37” lasted a really long time though. When we went up in size, I offered it to my parents, where it lasted a month and then died.
I still think they did something, like not using a surge protector, or something.
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Post by Ricketi on Jul 20, 2020 21:06:12 GMT -5
Its crazy what you can get now for such a low cost. I had a great tv , Sony Bravia 52” 1800$ . It crapped out and I replaced it with a LG 55” for 330$ with a higher definition.
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Post by hilltop87 on Jul 20, 2020 21:06:49 GMT -5
The horizontal went out on the Sony. It had been working great. Oh well nothing lasts forever right?
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jul 20, 2020 21:14:37 GMT -5
Yep. They are basically disposable. My last one before the current was a 55” non-Smart Samsung that lasted just shy of 3 years, which would have killed me if it had been $1300, but it was about $230.
Still should’ve lasted longer, I think, But it is what it is. Of course, since I had bought that TV, streaming became much more popular and I was due for a Smart TV also.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jul 20, 2020 21:45:46 GMT -5
Back in the 80's my company sold a fax machine that looked like a robot from a 1950's Sci-fi movie. I swear my recollection was it was something like $7000.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2020 21:51:39 GMT -5
13 years ago I bought a 46" Sony XBR and it's still going strong. I don't have 3D capability but I don't think I need it. Sometimes I look at the sets at Costco that have 4K resolution for $2K less than I paid for mine and the demos they play are truly impressive but I have to wonder how much actual 4K content there really is. I don't currently feel the need to upgrade. Maybe if it conks out I guess my hand will be forced but until then I think I'll just sit tight.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jul 20, 2020 21:55:05 GMT -5
^ That’s how I usually do it. I don’t buy a new one just for updated features, I catch up when I get “the next one”.
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Post by HenryJ on Jul 20, 2020 22:02:39 GMT -5
I got a 46" Sharp for maybe $1400 in 2007. JimmySee on the FDP had recommended getting a brand name that begins with the letter "S". It must have been good info, because it is still going strong.
Before that, we never had a TV last more than 5 years.
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Post by rangercaster on Jul 21, 2020 3:12:40 GMT -5
Fifteen years ago ...
I was fifteen years younger ...
I'm still here ...
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Post by stratcowboy on Jul 21, 2020 8:14:23 GMT -5
Then there's microwave ovens. The first commercial ones appeared in 1947 (the "Radarange"--it came out of WW-II radar technology). It weighed around 750 pounds and cost $5000 ($57,000 in 2019 money). You can now buy them at Walmart (or anywhere) for $79. And they weigh about 10 pounds.
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Post by oldnjplayer on Jul 21, 2020 8:35:29 GMT -5
regarding TV resolutions and newer 4k I have always found that it was more important to have a proper eye glass prescription without which all TV's look blurry to me...
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Post by Larry Madsen on Jul 21, 2020 8:42:21 GMT -5
Moral to this thread: Don't go out into life seeking a career as a TV repairman. We have a couple of Panasonic plasma-screen TVs, a 54" and a 42". They have lasted a long time, not certain how long. The 54" is older and seemed like a pretty good deal at the time we bought it. I bet a new one would be 1/3 (maybe 1/4) the price now though.
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Post by gato on Jul 21, 2020 9:30:53 GMT -5
I got a Sony plasma 42 inch in 2003, that cost $7,000. Still works.
Got a Black and Decker coffee maker in June of 2019, that cost about $20. Melted in a last gasp of steam this February.
Lesson: Rent a Sony coffee maker with a 42 inch screen.
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Post by Ayns on Jul 21, 2020 18:18:47 GMT -5
I paid £1000 for a Panasonic Viera 42" plasma screen (I think that was the biggest they did) about 15 years ago. It died about a year ago. I still think it was an easy fix, but when I rang the repairman he told me to just throw it in a skip. Similar models are about £250 now, with Internet access, BBC iplayer and YouTube included.
You can pick up a microwave for about £30, but they're rubbish quality now.
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Post by zoikzz on Jul 22, 2020 12:00:19 GMT -5
Way back then, "Q" the price of pork bellies 15 years past...It's technology buy back program. I was tired of spinning the channel selector to jump start the electro-mechanical devices. Tubes in amp=sweet. Tubes in t.v. not so sweet. Call uncle Don's brother the repairman in town.
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Post by reverendrob on Jul 22, 2020 12:46:43 GMT -5
Fifteen years ago I was getting woken up with regularity to reboot a craptastic piece of hardware with regularity.
Oh, wait...
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Jul 22, 2020 12:57:59 GMT -5
I bought a plasma (50" I think) in '08 that's still going strong. We have 4 TVs: Living room, bedroom, craft room and home theater.
Whenever one dies, I get the latest for the home theater and then do hand-me-downs to the other locations.
We now have the 50" plasma mounted on the wall in the bedroom. It looks like a behomoth and is way bigger than we need, but I took the opportunity to upgrade to 4K for the theater. Even that was only $400 at the time and with the 4K blu rays movies are spectacular.
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Post by twangmeister on Jul 22, 2020 22:43:27 GMT -5
Fifteen years ago I was invited to join a 19 piece swing band. I auditioned with a silver metalflake Telacoustic going through a Peavey Backstage. When I passed the audition I bought a new Blues Jr and a used Epiphone Casino. Then I added a cherry red Epiphone Dot to my growing pile of equipment which also included a FenderJazz Plus and a Yorkville bass amp.
I also discovered the Fender Discussion Page. Twelve years of GAS ensued.
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