🚀 go-pugleaf

On 24/08/2018 03:18, J. Clarke wrote:
> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>> [28 lines snipped]
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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...
>>

I've recently bought a 43" LG HD Smart TV. Very impressed, and 
(surprising to me) plays everything on my network, meaning I can retire 
the (basic, no 2 channel recording) streaming box. The combination of 
decent hardware (processor/RAM) and OS helps, I think.

I'd suggest having play in a shop - take a portable HD with some of your 
files on.

>> Too bad, I remember when Samsung's star was rising.  I was quite
>> impressed with them for a while...
> 

I've also got a 'dumb' Samsung flat screen TV - it's fine, 10 years old 
now. But I'm not a big fan of what I see as their intrusive 'privacy' 
policy.


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Cheers, Rob