40" 'dumb' TV - not a lot of choices

[zeno]

A smart TV I can deal with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SJ9CP6nmfs

You could learn every function before you finished 2 beers.
Software was thought out so even a 95 year old could run it.

73 Zeno
LFOD !

[SpaceAge]

Originally Posted by WhiskeyRebel

That's Best Buy's store brand, right? Is it an actual company or is it like Realistic or Kenmore where they are made on contract by a "real" company?

Not sure if an obscure Chinese manufacturer qualifies as a "real" company, but yes Insignia is Best Buy's store brand and the products are built on contract. Hopefully I can get at least 3-4 years of use out of mine, we'll see...

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by SpaceAge

Not sure if an obscure Chinese manufacturer qualifies as a "real" company, but yes Insignia is Best Buy's store brand and the products are built on contract. Hopefully I can get at least 3-4 years of use out of mine, we'll see...

The Insignia and Zenith DTV converters are built by LG. Maybe their TV's are, as well.
I never heard any real grumbling about Viseo sets. Every seems to like them a lot .

[KentTeffeteller]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

The Insignia and Zenith DTV converters are built by LG. Maybe their TV's are, as well.
I never heard any real grumbling about Viseo sets. Every seems to like them a lot .

I own a LG set, a 32" and it's over 4 years old. Excellent picture (720p). Not one problem with it ever. And it's a high hours daily watcher. The Zenith 40" flat panel in the other house, reliable, mom watches it many hours, not one problem. I'd buy another LG set if I needed to replace one.

[Electronic M]

If you want a truly dumb 40" set go find a 90s 40" CRT set... Everyone will agree it was a dumb purchase... including your back.

[Sandy G]

Sony made a 40" CRT Trinitron right at the time they quit making CRT TVs altogether. Well, they did this month, discontinued it next month. & re-introduced it right after that. I had a 36" CRT Trinitron, & I was not impressed w/it like I had been earlier ones. It started to die about 5 years after I got it, & its pic was NEVER as brilliant as we all remember earlier Trinitrons as being. I kinda wanted that 40, but now I'm just as glad I never got one...After Morita died, they kinda went all to H3!!.... That & buying that studio... I think that studio was looking for a Turkey to unload themselves on, & boy, did they find one....

[WhiskeyRebel]

That was a comical coincidence - I was poring over TVs listed on Craigslist and just as I read a 36" CRT TV described as "great for a kids play room", in the background I heard the phrase "This is a perfect opportunity to be crushed alive" in some promo for an upcoming show on The Science Channel.