This Old TV
Aug. 8th, 2023 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerOne of the friends I hung out with this weekend, J., told me, "I've gotten up to date on my TV technology!" He bought a new OLED display with all the built-in services, replacing an LCD TV he's had since... 2008. That's interesting to me because we have an LCD TV, also from 2008... and we don't see a reason to replace it.
The main reason we're soldiering along with a 15 year old TV is that we don't watch enough TV (including streaming) to want to invest in fancier technology. When our set breaks we'll replace it— but likely we'll buy a good LED model, not an OLED. LEDs are actually cheaper than LCDs were 15 years ago. We paid $750 in 2008 for our 42" LCD screen. Today a larger LED costs half that. OLEDs, though, are like 4x the price of LEDs.
J admitted he wasn't inclined at first to go with an OLED model. Like us, he expected to buy a simpler LED set— which is still a step forward from the LCD tech in our 2008 TVs. But says he was sold on OLED when he saw how much sharper and better contrast the picture is.
J's new TV also has all the built in services. "So they can spy on you!" I exclaimed... and he agreed. Then he added, "And more stuff that can break and/or be something Samsung decides to start charging a monthly fee to access." We both have Roku sticks for streaming and will likely keep using them until they break.
The main reason we're soldiering along with a 15 year old TV is that we don't watch enough TV (including streaming) to want to invest in fancier technology. When our set breaks we'll replace it— but likely we'll buy a good LED model, not an OLED. LEDs are actually cheaper than LCDs were 15 years ago. We paid $750 in 2008 for our 42" LCD screen. Today a larger LED costs half that. OLEDs, though, are like 4x the price of LEDs.
J admitted he wasn't inclined at first to go with an OLED model. Like us, he expected to buy a simpler LED set— which is still a step forward from the LCD tech in our 2008 TVs. But says he was sold on OLED when he saw how much sharper and better contrast the picture is.
J's new TV also has all the built in services. "So they can spy on you!" I exclaimed... and he agreed. Then he added, "And more stuff that can break and/or be something Samsung decides to start charging a monthly fee to access." We both have Roku sticks for streaming and will likely keep using them until they break.
