New TV!

- 'Cockfighter' ('cos it's got Warren Oates, it's banned in the UK, it's directed by the GRATE Monte Hellman, and it sounds like cockfarmer.)

- 'Suspiria' (made for a big telly)

- 'The Conformitst' (prob. the most beautiful film ever made)

- Any of those fabbo Mario Bava discs that have been issued in the last couple of years - 'Blood and Black Lace', maybe, or 'Bay of Blood'

- 'Mouchette' ('cos Bresson is the greatest)

I larfed nonstop and so did Dr. Ben.

It doubles as a 5 CD player and can play MP3s as well. You could load it up with mp3 mix discs and have enough music for an all-weekend party without ever having to switch CDs.

I'd buy "The Mummy Returns", though. Is that wrong?

haha i like that in 2002 DJP was buying a bigger TV than i have in 2011.

anyway i'm wondering if this animal exists: a TV with absolutely no features other than a tuner, and looking great. i don't want a "Smart" TV, i don't want 3D, i don't want DLNA support, i don't want USB ports. i've already got a popcorn hour and a PS3 and between them they take care of pretty much everything. possible?

Are you good at electronics? You could ]build one yourself

In the UK? You could just go along to a "recycling centre" and 'literally' pick one up for nothing - it would weigh a lot however. Curry's had an 'Essentials' range of appliances fairly recently - I remember seeing toasters and other small appliances, I think it included TVs.

I don't want a shitty TV, I want a TV that tunes in broadcasts and displays them exceptionally well!

Oh OK, well, no then...probably.

(I did wonder what you meant by looking great...)

However thanks for the link to these guys - http://www.nbtv.org/

(to StanM)

xp Actually the last TV I took down to the recycling centre did have a great picture (and better sound than my new one - do they deliberately soound crappy so you have to buy a home cinema?) but of course it was analogue.

The rubbish sound is more because the race to make flatscreen TVs as slim as possible leaves barely any depth in the casing for speakers, certainly not for a decently sized bass speaker. It's frustrating to have to shell out for a separate audio system/soundbar, but if you use the TV a lot then you'll feel the benefit.

Tracer: if you look at commercial grade LCD and plasma screens then these rarely have any of the extra gubbins you refer to, and they are often very well made with high-quality displays (part of my job involves buying this kind of kit). The flipside is that you'll not get speakers or a tuner as standard. To be honest, any decent consumer grade TV will have USB and dnla etc, so you're not really paying over the odds for its inclusion.

hmph yeah my idea is to save money by getting a set that doesn't include this stuff. And going up to "commercial grade" sounds a bit pricey as well.

The bits you're mentioning are the cheapest bits on a TV. Removing them wouldn't reduce the cost by much, maybe £20-30. And for the manufacturer, it would make such a TV harder to sell.

Just to give you a flavor, for a long time this was my ideal TV:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sony-Trinitron-Broadcast-Monitor-/130587978293

Tracer after an eb4y binge...
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5l4ce6SgZ1qzy6hgo1_500.jpg

>hmph yeah my idea is to save money by getting a set that doesn't include this stuff.

In fairness, a good TV these days is about as cheap as they'll ever get - cf. I bought a 28" CRT Sony widescreen in 2000 for £800. When this broke in 2008 I replaced it with a 37" Panasonic plasma which cost £750. You can get a 42" Panasonic plasma now for just over £400. You could dig deeper and buy a no-brand LCD for £250, but the PQ will be garbage. And as snoball says, the stuff you don't want contributes very little to the price.

OK thanks, this is all v helpful

Soooo didn't do this

My new lust object is:

- Networked media streamer
- HD Freeview PVR
- Blu-Ray

all in one box. Apparently this does not exist.

Basically my DVD player crapped out and it has made me reassess my entire life, and the nature of things

TS: Roku vs. Apple TV vs. streaming from your laptop

I don't want to have to wake up my computer just to watch something on TV

Basically I want WD TV Live, with a disc slot and a TV tuner inside

I'd settle for a decent PVR that does netflix, youtube & IPTV. why does youview not offer this

why is there no one piece of kit that does it all plus TV tuner
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1127187/vrg_settopbox_3.png

sooooo..

my tv has started to die

:D

it is 26", which apparently these days is fit only for children and elves

lol 5 years later that TV ^ is still going strong. Toshiba Regza, bought in 2006. literally as good now as it ever was.

HOWEVER. small OLEDs are finally happening ----->>>

https://www.techradar.com/news/forget-the-48-inch-oled-tv-the-42-inch-lg-c2-is-the-true-mid-size-winner

i’m serious about this, about my excitement, i’m not even embarrassed about it

My 50” Samsung frame tv arrived today and I’m also unabashedly excited. Thanks for reviving this thread, now I can bookmark it for all my dumb questions, since I haven’t had a tv in 8 years. I think slaxxor got me mostly sorted with good advice, though.

how much did that run you?

Like $950 plus $75 for the frame. I think the 55” was about $450 more. The 50” is good size IMO - good size for a bit more of a cinematic experience without being overwhelmingly large in a small space. We initially looked at the 43” but when I measured it out it was just too small.

Normally wouldn’t be comfortable spending this much at this time but we don’t have any debt apart from my nz student loans so we financed it interest-free

no shame! genuinely just curious

this frame tvs are really amazing looking tbh

The sound quality is better than I expected. Not in any hurry to buy additional audio for it. The first thing we watched a was streaming rental in ultra hd and it sort of blurry?? Like my glasses prescription wasn’t strong enough. Idk it seemed like the problem was my eyes not the screen.

is it possible there’s some motion smoothing shenanigans that are still switched on?

it's here :O

Today I was able to get the LG remote to control my Yamaha receiver's volume. This receiver is 25 years old. I find this incredible. So now I've got one remote for everything. TV audio piped into the receiver via optical, and out to three Elac speakers. The only thing slightly weird about it is that if I listen to Spotify or Sounds via the TV the sound comes out pretty loud out of the centre speaker, but, well, listening to music on a TV is pretty weird anyway.

i am doing it now, because timed recordings on the pvr of late night radio is easier than anything else. utter waste of energy though.

(radio 6 is louder than normal tv, radio 3 is the same as tv. optimod...)

More aggressive compression on 6M I think, which the vocal R3 audiophiles wouldn’t stand for.

koogs why not eat the dog food and just use Sounds to catch up on like… Benji B or whatever?

is the dog food vegetarian?

i'm on 3g, so have always had more pvr space than bandwidth. (he says with 140 unheard episodes of front row taking up space)

And no broadband? koogs! I never knew the digital divide extended quite so far!

I've been in a vacation rental without internet for a week and omg, cheap TVs are terrible to watch and so is actual TV when you don't have any streaming/iPlayer etc. I tried to switch of all the motion fiddling settings and it still looked horrible.
Hopefully we won't need a new TV for a while - drove quite a way to get the last decent plasma one we could find, probably around 8 years ago tho.

New nice TVs at a reasonable price are among the best buys for the buck. It's the age of miracles.

Literally a couple of months into the pandemic my flatscreen fritzed and I ordered a new one thinking it would be a replacement, but it ended up being even bigger, which, thanks. (55" Vizio) Combined that with a new Sony 4K/Bluray player with modifications to play all BD regions and will never look back.

How’s the sound from the tv speaker? (I don’t use external speakers as I have haring damage and I always find them too abrasive.)

From mine? Quite good I think!

My setup is upthread. TV speaker is permanently off. I have optical out to a 3.0 system and it sounds great. The centre speaker changes a lot. Before I just had R and L and everything went through those. Now with a centre speaker the R and L become more kind of ambient atmospheric sources (i’m guessing what would be coming out of rear speakers is getting mixed into them since I have no rear speakers? Or possibly I’m just losing that rear speaker information. I’ve never been clear on that)