I'm buying an LCD television, any advice?

[Stoner4Life]

yeah i got some advice mate, get yourself into the 21st century.

with what joe?

 

[good drown]

use slickdeals.net. they dont sell stuff, just tell you good deals. 3 days ago they had a sharp 47" 120hz for $700 shipped. i would recommend sharp aquos, and samsung.DO NOT BUY SONY, they have tons of problems, and they wont pull a tv if its got problems, they continue to sell it. i work with these and have never seen so much problems, then i have with sony.
i bought a aquos 4 years ago, and its still amazing and crisp, i got another 2 years ago. the customer support with sharp is amazing. they are very nice! they use local tv repair shops, so if it brakes, they come to your house to repair it!

 

[Joeski]

just a joke mate... but i must concur with good drown on samsung and sharp being great lcd producers... nothing but experiences with both companies... my samsung has been going strong for years

 

[guest]

Samsungs rock............I have 3 and want to get a new LED backlit mamo jamma

 

[mangled]

every one i know who gets a samsung, has issues with it 2-3 years down the road. I personally like panasonic, sony and sharp. The larger screen size you go, the more important 120hz is, at 42" i wouldnt worry about getting 120hz, but at 47"+ is when i definitely would get 120hz

 

[Stoner4Life]

last week my Bravia took a dump, the pictures fine w/a DVD player hooked up but the INPUT control and circuit board won't recognize the HDMI input signal; and it actually stopped recognizing the DVD player until I swapped it to a new set of input jacks on the Bravia. that board is fried.


Although I watch a lot of TV I didn't want to spend the $$$$ for a 46" 1080/120Hz, so I dropped a size and bought a 42" 1080/120 Sharp. The picture's phenomenal, should have done this earlier when there were some price riots around the holidays.


Anyways, while @ Best Buy I saw several of the new 4k uhd sets, of course they were hooked up to a matching media source to demonstrate its seamless imaging, that was some wicked viewing

The Sharp set I bought was $399, a very nice deal imo.

 

[CosmicGiggle]

last week my Bravia took a dump,...... that board is fried.

..... you seem to go thru a lot of TV's Stoner, are you using a surge protector or are you just another victim of Planned Obsolecense?

 

[hard rain]

and so here it is 1.5 years after getting my set it develops a dark streak on the screen, I bought an extended warranty and they send a repair man who calls it a loss. Soon after they call with an offer to replace the Sanyo w/another Sanyo which I declined, they mentioned a couple of other sets (Vizio etc) and until they offered me the Sony Bravia KDL-46V5100 I was wondering if I was going to be let down by the store & warranty. It's a nice step up from the Sanyo with the easiest onscreen programming imaginable.

The Bravia is awesome & I'd recommend these sets to anyone wondering what to buy, I should've dropped the extra $200 or so to begin with and bought one.......

I also have the Sony Bravia. Yes it's great. Replaced my old (still working) Sony Trinitron that must be 15 plus years old?

Great outcome with the warranty.

 

[D. B. Doober]

I've got a 42" plasma in storage and a 32" Samsung ultra LED plugged in. The Samsung works like a charm. It's a "smart TV"

 

[stoned-trout]

I love my vizio

 

[Stoner4Life]

..... you seem to go thru a lot of TV's Stoner, are you using a surge protector or are you just another victim of Planned Obsolecense?

I always use Belkin surge/strike protectors. The first one (a Sanyo) was certainly flawed or of planned obsolescence; the Sony was all my fault, I ran it morning noon & night, sometimes not shutting it down for weeks (months?) at a time; being from NY I'd grown accustomed to noise at night while sleeping, we ain't got no extra noise up here, I used to tumble dried clothes in a cold dryer to make some racket so I could sleep.

I plan on running this one about 5-6 hours a day, no more, when the Sony went down I needed a sound source from my computer and I found SimplyNoise.com ~~ it's a white/pink/brown noise generator, select either noise and then it also allows if you wish to adjust volume up n' down as you sleep via an oscillation button so that your sounds vary.

 

[Wiggs Dannyboy]

I've never heard of pink or brown noise. How are they different from white noise?

 

[Stoner4Life]

I don't know enough of the particulars so here's what wiki has to say:

White noise
Main article: White noise


White noise is a signal (or process), named by analogy to white light, with a flat frequency spectrum when plotted as a linear function of frequency (e.g., in Hz). In other words, the signal has equal power in any band of a given bandwidth (power spectral density) when the bandwidth is measured in Hz. For example, with a white noise audio signal, the range of frequencies between 40 Hz and 60 Hz contains the same amount of sound power as the range between 400 Hz and 420 Hz, since both intervals are 20 Hz wide. Note that spectra are often plotted with a logarithmic frequency axis rather than a linear one, in which case equal physical widths on the printed or displayed plot do not all have the same bandwidth, with the same physical width covering more Hz at higher frequencies than at lower frequencies. In this case a white noise spectrum that is equally sampled in the logarithm of frequency (i.e., equally sampled on the X axis) will slope upwards at higher frequencies rather than being flat. However it is not unusual in practice for spectra to be calculated using linearly-spaced frequency samples but plotted on a logarithmic frequency axis, potentially leading to misunderstandings and confusion if the distinction between equally spaced linear frequency samples and equally spaced logarithmic frequency samples is not kept in mind.


Pink Noise

The frequency spectrum of pink noise is linear in logarithmic space; it has equal power in bands that are proportionally wide. This means that pink noise would have equal power in the frequency range from 40 to 60 Hz as in the band from 4000 to 6000 Hz. Since humans hear in such a proportional space, where a doubling of frequency (an octave) is perceived the same regardless of actual frequency (40–60 Hz is heard as the same interval and distance as 4000–6000 Hz), every octave contains the same amount of energy and thus pink noise is often used as a reference signal in audio engineering. The power density, compared with white noise, decreases by 3 dB per octave (density proportional to 1/f ). For this reason, pink noise is often called "1/f noise".

Since there are an infinite number of logarithmic bands at both the low frequency (DC) and high frequency ends of the spectrum, any finite energy spectrum must have less energy than pink noise at both ends. Pink noise is the only power-law spectral density that has this property: all steeper power-law spectra are finite if integrated to the high-frequency end, and all flatter power-law spectra are finite if integrated to the DC, low-frequency limit.




Brown(ian) noise
Main article: Brownian noise


In fields that adopt precise definitions, the terminology "red noise", also called Brown noise or Brownian noise, will usually refer to a power density which decreases 6 dB per octave with increasing frequency (density proportional to 1/f 2) over a frequency range which does not include DC (in a general sense, does not include a constant component, or value at zero frequency). In areas where terminology is used loosely, "red noise" may refer to any system where power density decreases with increasing frequency.

The first definition can be generated by an algorithm which simulates Brownian motion or by integrating white noise. "Brown" noise is not named for a power spectrum that suggests the colour brown; rather, the name is a corruption of Brownian motion. "Red noise" describes the shape of the power spectrum, with pink being between red and white. Also known as "random walk" or "drunkard's walk" noise.




or go to www .simplynoise. com <----- close the gaps I left open, and get an earful of all the sounds. some folks spend big bucks for sound generators to help them sleep or for other uses such as increasing ones focus, studying, etc...

 

[Wiggs Dannyboy]

Ayecarumba...think I'll go and give 'em a listen, I'm not up to understanding tech-speak at the moment.

Edit: Well, just went and checked the noises out...that website is awesome! I think I may have found the answer to my "falling asleep problem," as soon as I started listening I could detect a change in my brain...

Thanks for that link S4L

 

[Stoner4Life]

Ayecarumba...think I'll go and give 'em a listen, I'm not up to understanding tech-speak at the moment.

Edit: Well, just went and checked the noises out...that website is awesome! I think I may have found the answer to my "falling asleep problem," as soon as I started listening I could detect a change in my brain...

Thanks for that link S4L

I was listening to the brown noise, deciding on volume and the oscillation frequency and fell asleep 3 times while sitting up in my chair, I knew I'd hit on something fine.......

 

[noyd666]

lol poor bugger's. any noise from down town unloading ships onto docks here wakes you up, bloody train whistles. feel fer you needing noise to sleep, new York must be a noise pollution city. to many YELLOW CAB'S MATE?

 

[Wiggs Dannyboy]

I was listening to the brown noise, deciding on volume and the oscillation frequency and fell asleep 3 times while sitting up in my chair, I knew I'd hit on something fine.......

Hahahahaha....primo app.

 

[D. B. Doober]

correction - my smart TV is a Phillips

 

[sutra1]

I always use Belkin surge/strike protectors. The first one (a Sanyo) was certainly flawed or of planned obsolescence; the Sony was all my fault, I ran it morning noon & night, sometimes not shutting it down for weeks (months?) at a time; being from NY I'd grown accustomed to noise at night while sleeping, we ain't got no extra noise up here, I used to tumble dried clothes in a cold dryer to make some racket so I could sleep.

i "hear" ya on the background noise at night. i'm also from the city (grew up under the BQE). now i'm in the boonies/suburbs of nyc, i put newsradio 88 till i'm out.

 

[RoadRash]

samsung or sony the way to go

yep.

Samsung is vertically integrated, they make all their own stuff.

Samsung 39 inch I have seen as low as $300 new, 1080P.


I don't understand the shiney monitor that a lot of of them. I had one for a while, to watch it you had to turn off all the lights.