Big Screen Television

I paid $8k for a 50" Mitsubishi - I was watching the Superbowl in 1984 and saw the Apple commercial that kicked it all off.
Switched from the audio industry to Macs in 1985 and stayed there for a few decades.
I've been chasing hidef for 40 years since I saw the closed circuit demo of the Japanese analogue LaserDisc system in Chicago in the early 80s.
It got there a few years back ....still getting better mostly and cheaper for sure.

I do think movies shot on 60-70 mm film or iMax make the best transfer to digital.
 
Our first “big screen” was a 50” RCA projection. And it was 1080P which was hi-def at the time - we had Starchoice Satellite TV and I remembered the decoder needed a separate “sidecar” box specifically for HD, and there was only about 5-6 HD channels at the time, but it was pretty epic.

It replaced a 35” RCA tube TV that seemed enormous when I first got it. Pretty sure some of my lumbar back issues can be connected to lugging that stupid old RCA tube thing between houses and eventually out the door lol.

The 50” projection RCA lasted probably 10 years before it fritzed out one day and surely wasn’t worth fixing. It served us pretty well, but I remember paying something close to $4K for it at the time.

I replaced it with the LG Plasma I mentioned earlier which also served us well - was still working when we got rid of it.
 
MacDoc said:
I paid $8k for a 50" Mitsubishi - I was watching the Superbowl in 1984 and saw the Apple commercial that kicked it all off.
Switched from the audio industry to Macs in 1985 and stayed there for a few decades.
I've been chasing hidef for 40 years since I saw the closed circuit demo of the Japanese analogue LaserDisc system in Chicago in the early 80s.
It got there a few years back ....still getting better mostly and cheaper for sure.

I do think movies shot on 60-70 mm film or iMax make the best transfer to digital.
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I have a movie on 35mm film. It's a bad movie and I haven't been able to get my hands on a 35mm projector (they are bigger than I expected). It's far easier to download the movie but it would be fun to run the film sometime.
 
I had the big 42" RCA projection for a day then swapped it for the bigger 50" version. Never a problem with it for many years and gave it away when I moved.
Upgraded to a 51" LG plasma I bought second hand from a divorce sale kijiji listing (he got the apartment and she got the tv but I didn't ask many questions). We still have that LG in the basement for the kiddos with a Firestick on it to make it smart. Don't know how much power that LG requires but it doubles as a heat source.
I'm fine with our mid-grade Sony and would recommend one. I'm more of an audio guy than a TV nerd.
 
Is 85” too big to get a decent price point?
98” is around three grand, which seems a lot for a basement TV.

We had a 16” b&w. First colour was a well used Zenith console with a remote clicker to change the channels. Drug store up the street had a tube tester and tubes for it. Later cable came out with those wired rectangular boxes with multiple channels.
 
Amazing price drops...a 65" one of these is for sale 18 months old for $400 negotiable.
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Baggsy said:
First colour was a well used Zenith console with a remote clicker to change the channels.
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Someone still had to get up to rotate the antenna if you switched from a TO to a US BUF channel.

I believe @Gary was still in charge of that.
 
FullMotoJacket said:
Someone still had to get up to rotate the antenna if you switched from a TO to a US BUF channel.

I believe @Gary was still in charge of that.
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Nope.
We didn't have the baller rotating antenna on a tower.
Ours was on a 4' pole, wire strapped to the chimney, all the way until "cable tv".
 
Lightcycle said:
We had these:

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Some family members had a TV with a tuning fork remote. I kick myself for not keeping the remote. It was awesome. No batteries, always worked. Long-throw buttons wind up a spring and drop a hammer on a tuned rod. Downside was remote was pretty loud.

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Our Zenith came with this:
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Can’t tell what the refresh rate on Mac’s 65” is.

Might have to spend $$$ for an 85”+. The old Samsung TV we bought on Valentines Day when we first moved to Ottawa, is still going strong, as is the even older Samsung surround setup we bought from Bay Bloor Radio 20 or 30 years ago.
 
Baggsy said:
Looking at this one at the moment:

https://www.costco.ca/samsung-98"-class---du9000-series---4k-uhd-led-lcd-tv.product.4000293237.html
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Wow, that's a pretty good price for the size. I was looking into the TCL 98's for about the same price, but they have gone on sale for a little less. I was considering replacing our 120" projector screen in our open concept family room/kitchen. The ceiling mounted home theater projector is amazing at night, but during the day with all the ambient light, it's just too dim to watch anything with dark scenes. Just not sure about TCL, and the last time I looked, the Samsung was a lot more.
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