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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
Getting ready to start the 2025 fishing season!
Absolutely stunning pic....I do miss that area...by the way, you know, if Jason Bourne was there, he'd shoot that tank by the garage to create a distraction before chasing you into the field.
Geoff4rfc
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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
... and here I was gonna say why are you taking a boat when you've got that submarine?
mhardy6647
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Re: You’re doing it wrong…
Just remember. Two wrongs don't make a right. But three lefts do.
audioluvr
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Re: New TV recommendations
Samsungs. They usually crap out on us every 7 or so years. I'll look at Sony's next.
Tom
Tom
treitz3
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Re: New TV recommendations
Note: I said "in an affordable manner." You linked a $70,000 TV that wouldn't fit in most rooms. I was referring to the sweet spot in consumer sizes between 55"-75". Plasma pixels didn't scale down small enough to get 4K in those sizes.
Plasma was great for the time, but I really don't miss it. OLED today is better in almost every respect. It gets brighter, gets blacker, does colors every bit as well, and can be made in just about any size from a smart phone to a monster 100"+ size. It has also become more affordable than plasma was.
Also, I don't believe that designing TVs that used less power has made them any less reliable. It has more to do with the overall 'cheapening' of the TVs through the last 10 years due to intense competition from Chinese brands like Hisense and TCL. The push for ultra-slim designs has also made TVs less reliable. When you pack circuits into smaller spaces, we know what happens. They get hotter, and there is less tolerance for faults. The compact designs have pushed the boards to almost complete surface mounted designs which also tend to fail more easily. Luckily, we are paying significantly less for TVs now and if it needs to be replaced every 5-7 years, then so be it. I paid $1500 for a 42" Panasonic Plasma in early 2007. In 2022, I bought a 50" Hisense for the bedroom that cost me less than $350. For the most part, the Hisense looks better than the Panasonic did and it doesn't heat the room up either.
billbillw
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