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People forget things used to cost a lot of money. I remember when our family bought our first color TV set back in the early 70's. You can buy a 65" HDTV set to

People forget things used to cost a lot of money. I remember when our family bought our first color TV set back in the early 70's. You can buy a 65" HDTV set today for the same amount of money - and that's in today's dollars which are significantly less valuable than the dollars in the early 70's! That TV didn't last 20 years - it was a huge hassle continually testing and replacing tubes. Meanwhile I bought a 55" HDTV almost 20 years ago that's still running fine.

Fatnino 4y ago
20 years ago tvs didnt have all manner of "smart" crap stuffed into them. If you buy a TV today there is a good chance much of it will stop working or change for the worse in an overnight update.
function_seven 4y ago
I remember asking for a color 13" TV for Christmas back in 1988 I think? For months I would grab the Sunday paper and pull out all the ad inserts looking for the perfect TV. It had to be cheap; I didn't want to ask for anything crazy. I finally found one that was under $200 and showed it to my parents. It was some unknown brand. It wasn't "Cable Ready", and it still had separate tuner knobs for VHF and UHF. I didn't care, main use would be for Nintendo. Parents decided to splurge instead and spent almost $400 on a Toshiba unit with a digital channel display and a remote(!). It also understood cable. I could watch Nick at Nite on it when I went to sleep. $400 for a 13" TV, in 1988. That's $1,000 in today's money. A 75-inch 4K TV. EDIT: For a nostalgia hit, I went searching for it. This is the model they got me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15wiYAEOYAE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15wiYAEOYAE
- listenallyall 4y ago
  > $400 for a 13" TV, in 1988. That's $1,000 in today's money. A 75-inch 4K TV. Those 1980's tvs could display Knight Rider, Miami Vice, The A-Team and Moonlighting natively, without the need for any kind of streaming service.
  - function_seven 4y ago
    Another nice feature of that TV was the ability to play the audio from otherwise-restricted... um, "premium" cable channels. Good enough for this 13-year-old. :)
  - mgkimsal 4y ago
    not on demand.
bdcravens 4y ago
In our new house this summer, I sprung for a 77" LG C2 OLED. Almost embarassed by it looking back, since I could have bought a 75" "standard" 4K TV for about 1/4 the price.
- bombela 4y ago
  Those screens are so good, I use our LG OLED TV as a computer screen more often than to watch movies. In fact I now feel uneasy working on standard 60hz 4k LCD monitors.

Fatnino 4y ago

20 years ago tvs didnt have all manner of "smart" crap stuffed into them. If you buy a TV today there is a good chance much of it will stop working or change for the worse in an overnight update.

function_seven 4y ago

I remember asking for a color 13" TV for Christmas back in 1988 I think? For months I would grab the Sunday paper and pull out all the ad inserts looking for the perfect TV. It had to be cheap; I didn't want to ask for anything crazy. I finally found one that was under $200 and showed it to my parents. It was some unknown brand. It wasn't "Cable Ready", and it still had separate tuner knobs for VHF and UHF. I didn't care, main use would be for Nintendo. Parents decided to splurge instead and spent almost $400 on a Toshiba unit with a digital channel display and a remote(!). It also understood cable. I could watch Nick at Nite on it when I went to sleep. $400 for a 13" TV, in 1988. That's $1,000 in today's money. A 75-inch 4K TV. EDIT: For a nostalgia hit, I went searching for it. This is the model they got me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15wiYAEOYAE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15wiYAEOYAE

listenallyall 4y ago
> $400 for a 13" TV, in 1988. That's $1,000 in today's money. A 75-inch 4K TV. Those 1980's tvs could display Knight Rider, Miami Vice, The A-Team and Moonlighting natively, without the need for any kind of streaming service.
- function_seven 4y ago
  Another nice feature of that TV was the ability to play the audio from otherwise-restricted... um, "premium" cable channels. Good enough for this 13-year-old. :)
- mgkimsal 4y ago
  not on demand.

bdcravens 4y ago

In our new house this summer, I sprung for a 77" LG C2 OLED. Almost embarassed by it looking back, since I could have bought a 75" "standard" 4K TV for about 1/4 the price.

bombela 4y ago
Those screens are so good, I use our LG OLED TV as a computer screen more often than to watch movies. In fact I now feel uneasy working on standard 60hz 4k LCD monitors.