🚀 go-pugleaf

On 24 Aug 2018 02:01:24 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
wrote:

>On 2018-08-23, J  Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 23 Aug 2018 21:21:56 GMT, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 19:19:54 +0000, Huge wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2018-08-23, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
>>>> 
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>>>>> My TV set broke down last week. I may want to replace it, but I don't
>>>>> understand the feature set of the current models.  What's a "SmartTV"
>>>> 
>>>> A TV with a shitty web browser and a shitty media streamer built in.
>>>> 
>>>>> and do I want one?
>>>> 
>>>> No. Buy a "dumb" TV (if you can find one) and something like a Roku box,
>>>> or buy a SMART TV and budget to buy a Roku when you discover just how
>>>> crappy the "SMART" bit is. Oh, and firewall it off from your home
>>>> network,
>>>> consider firewalling it off from everything on the Internet other than
>>>> content providers and fill the microphone (typically in the remote) with
>>>> epoxy.
>>>> 
>>>> And under no circumstances buy a Samdung.
>>>
>>> +1
>>
>> I'm curious--what brand do you recommend these days?  The options seem
>> to be a few Japanese companies, two Korean ones, and a bunch of
>> off-brand.
>
>We've been having good luck with LG (hmm, Lucky Goldstar... coincidence?).
>No smart TVs, but we have a 42-incher in the den and a 60 in the living
>room and they both have been working great for some time.  Oh, and then
>there's my flip phone...
>
>Too bad, I remember when Samsung's star was rising.  I was quite
>impressed with them for a while...

What's the issue with them?  A friend of mine is on his second one
(the first one is working fine, he needed a bigger one--he uses it for
a monitor and he's legally blind) and I have a 40" that I use for a
monitor and no problems with any of them.