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Old 04-17-2022, 07:24 PM
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My 55" crapped out after several months of the picture getting darker. I know it isn't worth fixing, any new ones to avoid? Wife wants to get one from Costco.

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I've had a couple of Vizio TV's and had good luck with them. They have a great picture for the price.

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I have a Visio, Sony, and TCL. All have been fine. I think the TCL has the best picture

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I have been happy with my Samsung and Vizio

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Old 04-17-2022, 08:13 PM
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If you ever drop cable TV and consider going with youtube TV, I don't think Sony allows you to add the app so you would have to add a device like a Fire Stick or Roku. Not sure about Visio but Samsung builds it in. You can never go wrong with a Samsung.

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My personal opinion is that I'll never own anything made by LG again. I bought an LG TV that lasted about one week past warranty. It had a beautiful picture, but I believe it is because they overdrove the LEDs. Within a couple of weeks of buying the TV, the screen would go black for no reason, but the audio would continue. I contacted LG, and they told me to unplug it from the wall outlet and wait one minute before plugging back in. Simply turning it off for one minute did nothing, but that worked, It wasn't horrible, but about once a week it would lose the picture. Then shortly after the warranty expired, so did the TV.

My son also bought a fairly expensive side by side LG refrigerator several years back. It also failed within several months of the factory warranty expiring. He looked into having the compressor replaced, and the repairman basically told him he would be waiting several months for a replacement compressor, and it might not last very long once he replaces it. The repairman's suggestion was to just buy a different brand of refrigerator. Incidentally, LG settled a class action lawsuit involving side by side and french door refrigerators manufactured in 2014 - 2018.

I replaced my LG TV with a 60" Sony, which I think is around 3 years old and has been trouble free. I also have a 46 or 48" Toshiba dumb TV in my bedroom that is around 15 years old, and it has been trouble free as well.

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I've had good luck with both of my Samsungs.

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My next one will be the SAMSUNG 65" Class QN85D-Series 4K Ultra HD Smart Neo QLED TV - QN65QN85DAFXZA I copied this from Sam's Club. It is pricey right now but sometimes they put them on sale for arouns $1,000.00. I would go bigger but a 65" is the biggest I can put in the space I have for it.

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I have 4 flat screens, ranging in size from 40" to 65". ALL are Sony Bravias ranging in age from 2 yrs to 15 yrs old. No issues with any of them. Great sound and picture.

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We stopped using our Sony Big sreen because the hdmi outlets failed 1-by-1, until all 4 dead.
We sold it along with the stand, and have no desire to get any large screen TV.

We plan too watch the few DVD movies on a 27" flatscreen on the coffee table with the built-in DVD player.
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I may be wrong by am of the thought process that they are all the same. I suppose not. I have a 65 Samsung with the curve and love it. I too would like to get a bigger one but I have built in cabinets and thats the largest that will fit. We have tvs in what seems like every room. Most are samsungs and really no problems. I have a sony in my bedroom that is now about 10 years old. I bought it off the floor as a demonstrator from Sears. Who knows how long that thing had run before I bought it? It is still working strong and has a great pic. I have one in another bedroom that I got at best buy, I thought it was there generic brand or something. It was cheap but doesnt have nearly the definition or sharpness of the samsungs.

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I have a friend in the appliance repair business, and as far as he can tell - LG means "Largely Garbage" - esp TVs and refrigerators.

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55" Insignia with built-in Fire TV. Best Buy's house brand, paid $349 a few years ago.


No problems, great picture.

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Two Samsung's 5 years and 2 years old and happy so far.

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55" Insignia with built-in Fire TV. Best Buy's house brand, paid $349 a few years ago.
No problems, great picture.
Does it include an app for youtube TV or can it be added by downloading it?

Many brands will include an app for regular youtube but not youtube TV.

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I had a 65" curved Samsung TV and it lasted 5 years before some bottom pixels went out. I paid like 1300 for that TV back then. I have a 55" flat Samsung that is about 10 years old no problems, not a smart TV though. I replaced curved Samsung with the a Flat 65 Samsung and so far has been good. The flat 65 I bought on one of those black Friday deals for like 400. The only down side on the new 65 Samsung is smart TV feature is slow in bringing up certain apps like VUDU, sound from TV is not the greatest(most TV's speakers are not great) and it only has two HDMI ports. I bought a Roku speaker and that produces great sound and apps load up so much faster. I am planning on buying the Roku bass speaker but I am surprised how good the bass is from this sound bar. It also has a better voice speaker for those of us who are getting harder of hearing

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I don't have experience with a lot of different brands but I had 55" Samsung for several years then a few years ago upgraded to a 65" Samsung just for the size. Still going strong.

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I have that same Roku sound bar. I love it. I can stream my Xfinity, Sirius, Disney, Netflix, Hulu, motortrend, pretty much everything and it’s fast.

I bought the insignia 55” for my garage and it works well.

I have two higher end Sony’s in the house and about once every 6 months I will have to unplug one of them for it to reset.

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I want to go to a 65". The old one was a 55" and am using a 43" as a temp. After having a 55" and then going to a 43" is like going from a 4 barrel to a 2 barrel carb.

It seems like samsung makes a great TV but not great refrigerators. lol
Maybe I just have bad luck with TV's but this is #4 in 10 years! The TCL 43" I'm using now has great sound and picture, just too small.

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I had a 65" curved Samsung TV and it lasted 5 years before some bottom pixels went out. I paid like 1300 for that TV back then. I have a 55" flat Samsung that is about 10 years old no problems, not a smart TV though. I replaced curved Samsung with the a Flat 65 Samsung and so far has been good. The flat 65 I bought on one of those black Friday deals for like 400. The only down side on the new 65 Samsung is smart TV feature is slow in bringing up certain apps like VUDU, sound from TV is not the greatest(most TV's speakers are not great) and it only has two HDMI ports. I bought a Roku speaker and that produces great sound and apps load up so much faster. I am planning on buying the Roku bass speaker but I am surprised how good the bass is from this sound bar. It also has a better voice speaker for those of us who are getting harder of hearing
So, I'm not the only one here that has the closed caption on all the time? It's not so much I'm hard of hearing it's just that the voice is low, then when the action begins it's SO loud! I'm constantly turning the volume up and down.

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