Electronics

[LizzieInSRQ]

@skittles2 ...i seconded @SilleeMee @ suggestion about CNET dot com.

Also I see QVC TSV Is some kind id Samsung electronics this coming Sunday January 5th. 

Even if you dont buy the TV from QVC, there is bound to be a load of information that might answer your questions if it turns out to be a TV. Check out the program guide for convenieht time. Warning though you may want to check out the earlier shows rather than later one as I remember them selling out of certain sizes. 

Being in time to receive for the Super Bowl, i feel certain it will be televisions that is the TSV.

[mrshckynut]

@skittles2      we have all samsung led smart tv sets       we have dish network as our provider with the hopper 3 and 1 joey

we use our dish remote for most of our programming and watching however we have to use the samsung remote when we want to stream or watch either of our dvd players and it is all pretty simple for us after first reading all the instructions

mrshckynut 

[Razzy 7]

I've found at Best Buy that sales people vary considerably in their product knowledge. Some are quite knowledgeable; some not so much. It likely varies according to their training. Some may be great in electronics and others great in appliances - depends how experienced a salesperson is and what training he or she has had in the type of product you're interested in and which salesperson you get. Generally TV salespeople are in the TV area and appliance people are in that area, but NOT ALWAYS. 

In the last year or so, I purchased two LG 65" TVs. Rather than a mass marketer like Best Buy, I chose to purchase these TVs from an experienced, local merchant who has been in business many, many years. Their prices were very close to Best Buy and other chains - they pretty well have to be to remain competitive. No one will buy a TV that's $1,000 at one location and $500 at another. Since I was buying quite expensive TVs, I wanted to make sure I purchased them from someone who was knowledgeable and could answer future questions and be able to solve probIems I might have in the future.

[gardenman]

Retail store salespeople are often encouraged to push products that the store has a surplus of. If they have ten of one model of HDTV in stock and only one of another model, they'll be encouraged to sell more of the one they have ten of. And you can't trust your eyes when it comes to buying a TV as the settings can be tweaked to make a bad set look better than a better set. TV buyers tend to favor the brighter set, so if you lower the brightness on one set and raise it on another, the one that's brighter will sell more. "I can't believe how much better that set looks!" You're right. You can't believe it. 

It's truly hard to buy a bad HDTV these days. They're all good. Are some better than others? Sure. But none of them are truly bad and for most users watching most programming, you won't notice a day-to-day difference. Most of, nearly all of the 'upgrades' are largely unnoticeable in normal use. Gamers love a high refresh rate, but can they truly see a difference between a 120 hz and a 480 hz set? Not according to the experts who study such things. And even the absolute best, most feature-loaded set in the universe, can only show the image that's put into it. If you're provider only provides a standard HD signal at 60 hz, that's what your TV will show.

[Jordan2]

The TSV is a good price, but this is a 2024 model, I think the 2025s start coming out in the spring. I don't buy tvs often, I'm passing on the TSV as I want the newest tv I can buy. I don't understand what a OLED and mini OLED means. Also 120 refresher rate is more money than the 60 but will you really notice the difference? Maybe someone can dumb this down for me and tell me the best affordable tv I can buy (less than $800 for a 55" tv). 

[monicakm]

@skittles2 

Whew!  Good luck with all that! I can't help.  I have Verizon but only for our phones. And my 75 inch TV is a P-series Vizio that I'm super happy with BTW.  It came with so much content that it's mind-boggling and that's an addition to the DirecTV content. I have a Google TV streamer 4K on my TV and it too is packed with a mind-boggling amount of content. It sounds like you are experiencing "analysis paralysis".  That is something I'm all too familiar with.  

We need a new king size mattress too.  I'm probably going to faint from sticker shock when I see the prices.

[monicakm]

@Razzy 7 

You sound like my husband when it comes to buying items from specialty stores versus big box stores.

[SilleeMee]

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@Jordan2 wrote:

The TSV is a good price, but this is a 2024 model, I think the 2025s start coming out in the spring. I don't buy tvs often, I'm passing on the TSV as I want the newest tv I can buy. I don't understand what a OLED and mini OLED means. Also 120 refresher rate is more money than the 60 but will you really notice the difference? Maybe someone can dumb this down for me and tell me the best affordable tv I can buy (less than $800 for a 55" tv). 

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@Jordan2 

Mini OLEDs are found in small devices such as watches and cameras whereas OLEDs are used in large TV screens.

Higher refresher rates do matter if you watch fast action shows, sports for instance, or if you are a gamer. Otherwise 60 hz will do just fine and the difference won't be significantly noticable.

[skittles2]

I apologize for not responding until now. I don't like asking for help and then not responding and acknowledging the time posters take to reply.

I have a few serious medical issues and they decided to start the New Year off by letting me know I need to keep them in mind🙄

And our street, just a few houses, has a stray cat. I've taken him inside during this awful cold and snow.

I won't have him trying to survive in this mess.  I live in the Washington DC area, within Maryland's border, and this storm is in the top 5 worst storms for our region. 

I have to tell each of you, 

WOW! Your responses went above and beyond! I've learned more from each of you than my weeks, months, actually, of researching.

It's always better to hear from people who have experience with what you're interested in and don't have a vested interest in the Brand. 

I'll peruse every reply again and use them for reference to narrow it down. Actually, I've saved this thread, so much great info.

What each of you has done is make things easier for me and freed up hours of research each day, comparing is a mental drain and I get obsessive,

"paralysis from analysis" THAT'S ME!

Wait until I finally get started on the king mattress!

That's part of my problem, doing multiple research at the same time, takes me down the rabbit hole, through the maze of unending deadends.

This , it's all happening at once. 

2 TV's, 2 Mattress, 3 bedframes, Living & Family room furniture, Sunroom HVAC and furniture,

3 toilets were purchased in '22,  2 of which are flooding, so we're replacing all 3 with Pressure Assist toilets, yeah that research is not fun,

having the outside of my house renovated from a storm, including tearing down and rebuilding the chimney, well....I'll stop there.🙄

I really cannot thank each of you enough!❣️

💞🐾🐈‍⬛🐶🐾💞

[monicakm]

OMGosh, you is nuts!  I can't imagine having all that on my plate at once @skittles2. I hope you have good organizational skills.  

Do you know what brand of mattress you're buying? I started looking today. What brand toilet did you choose?  We replaced ours with Toto.  

Good luck with everything. I love remodeling but I'm glad we're through with big remodeled jobs.  Oh I forgot. Last night my husband was talking about new kitchen cabinets. If we do it he will do the job himself.  The only downside of remodeling is remodel dust.  Not so funny story... during our kitchen remodel he was trimming baseboard and I was behind him with a vacuum hose so all the sawdust would be contained. It wasn't until he was finished that I discovered the bag wasn't on the other end of the hose 🤨🙄🫣

Hope you'll keep us updated.