Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get?

• Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Almost 2 decades ago I paid close to that for a 50" plasma TV as one of my first big purchases after I got my first job.

  Of course this isn’t a direct 1:1 comparison, they’re different display technologies, TVs these days have a 4k if not 8k resolution when that one I bought was 720p, there’s been almost 20 years of advancement driving costs down, and 20 years of inflation driving them up, etc.

  So I don’t even know where to begin trying to fairly compare the relative costs of those 2 TVs

  But back then tv manufacturers also weren’t getting paid to include apps, and put a button on their remotes to launch Amazon prime, or show me ads, or anything of the sort. Their only revenue stream was me buying the tv.

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  • njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well you can get a smart TV of that size for $300 or less. Which you can always just not hook up to the Internet, stuff to do with a crappy operating system but I don’t think that’s worth $600. Also elsewhere in this thread there’s a link to a Samsung non-smart TV of that size for 600 so I really think 900 is too much.

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