[mythtv-users] Recommendations for HDTV?

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Ken Truesdale <kentruesdale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > Wrong! (1) I have a gallaxy tab that is a 10” LED TV. (2) Samsung also
> sell a top end 55” OLED TV (presumably the price premimum for 55” makes it
> worthwhile where as the price for a 40” is too high to be competitive (yet))
>
> Well, I would argue that you are using a tablet to watch TV (i.e.
> television programs) but that as far as a traditional TV (television
> device) - one that you can set up at a distance and watch from a couch -
> there is no such thing as LED.  And I don't think the O.P. was looking for
> a 10" tablet to replace his SD TV.
>
> And as far as OLED, I stated parenthetically in the next paragraph that it
> wasn't practical.  And by practical, I meant practical to afford.  The OLED
> problem as I understand it is one of yield and that causes the
> manufacturing process to very expensive and that cost is passed on to the
> buyer.  Which either makes it so it is too expensive to be practical (I
> thought it was LG that released the OLED but maybe it is Samsung - can't
> remember which) or that the manufacturer doesn't even bother releasing the
> device to the public yet.  Besides, I see LED and OLED as two different
> concepts but maybe since there is no such thing as an LED TV, you could
> argue that OLED is the LED for TV - that is just a matter of semantics,
> though.
>
> So taken together, where a TV is a traditional box sitting on a cabinet or
> hung on a wall (and not a tablet) and that OLED is not LED, my original
> statement stands: there is no such thing as an LED TV.  Despite what the
> labels on the TVs in stores indicate.
>

Ken, thanks for the tip. I have kept abreast of most of the TV
technologies, just haven't yet opted to purchase (I'm a gadget geek with
few gadgets...). I'm aware that I won't be getting a true LED TV, just LED
backlighting (unless I wait a few more years...!), but I did mention I'd
like a "full array" LED for maximum contrast. But LED TV is the term that
marketers have co-opted so that was what I used.

Thanks for the input, everyone. It sounds like there aren't any particular
major MythTV-related headaches to avoid (with modern sets anyway) so I'll
just snag a good quality set when it goes on sale.

Karl
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