MACS wrote:Disposable, you say? My 37" Vizio, which I've had for God knows how long, would beg to differ.
Funny story... 2 TV's and neither of them have been on for a couple months. Been watching YouTube TV on my laptop since neither of them are "smart" and I don't want to bother plugging in the HDMI that's already there. lol
When I said disposable, that was the wrong word. What I was trying to say is TVs and most household electronics these days are rather inexpensive compared to what they used to be. Less headache to just toss out it and buy another. Back in my day, getting a new TV was a big deal and a luxury upgrade item. Nowadays they get replaced not because they die but because the next generation is more fancy and folks want the new shiny things that has options that they'll probably never use.
Most of the guts of these electronics are made by the same factories, it's the label on the front and the name brand that turns a $200 TV into a $400 TV. I'm speaking in generalizations of course. I have Spcectre, a VIZO, an Onn, and a LG in the apartment. Computer monitors in my little cubby of a home office: Sceptre, Vizo (Chromecst enabled), LG. I've had zero problems with any of them functionally. The settings for the best picture is different but by my eye, I don't think I wouldn't be able to rank them. They are all the same if the settings are adjusted correctly to meet my eye.
They (TVs) are so inexpensive and when I see them on sale at the circus, I sometimes just buy them at discount for a future gift to someone. I have no need for another TV but some of the discount prices are too good to pass up. Case in point: Some dude bought a curve screen 60 inch (?) floor model smart 4k TV for under $400 tonight (it was a $900 ish TV in the box). It was his lucky day. If it a customer didn't buy it, it was going home with an employee. I was third on the list, but 2 guys in electronics already (figuratively) pissed on it to mark their territory.
Two weeks ago I snagged 720p projector with a Roku sick to $42 (shelf price of about $180). I have zero use for it. But I bought one.
Cell phones are another good example, folks gotta get a new generation iPhone that can take pictures with a resolution of a brazillion pixels with a 98.2 MB file only to share those pictures on their Facebook page or e-mail it with a limitation of like 2MB file size (I have no clue on the size limitations for posting pics on FB) so their friends can view it on their 7" screen cell phone. The brazillion pixel resolution image is kinda worthless and overkill when 98.2 of the times that you use the picture, it has to be scaled down to post it or to send it as an attachment.
