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So after browsing review sites, and going into shops in the last couple of months (!), I finally settle for a ue55h6400 by Samsung[^] for €770.
They are currently making a lot of fuss about UltraHD (aka "4K"), but this is waaaaay too early IMO, as the sources are mostly lacking (FullHD is hardly a standard on French TV, so they haven't started to talk about UHD yet) and the downsizing algorithm terrible (who knew this would be so complicated to SW duplicate pixels?) so there is absolutely no point in investing in that technology for the moment.
The OLED technology looks great, but $3000 for a TV is definitely not worth it (especially with kids playing soccer in the living-room  ).
The only drawback of the Samsung above is the edge LED lighting instead of direct LED, but then, it is not as if I would spend a lot of time in front of the TV. For the record, my old TV was a 40" CRC Thomson from ... 2003  and it is still working flawlessly. No fix required in 10years+, not sure the new one will hold that long...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: kids playing soccer in the living-room
You have American kids? Your food bill must be unbelievable still at least your TV will get used a lot.
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 Did not get the joke. Or was it no joke ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I have 3 samsung's, one is even located in the bathroom (something the tv wasn't made for), 1 I use all the time (mostly as a pc screen but...) and 1 I almost never use.
All are between 6 (= the one I use all the time) and 4 years old and none have failed me yet (granted the one in the bathroom does seem to not like it, some weird nose comming from it when I turn it on but it still works so...)
So you might get that 10years out off it aswell 
I'v always been happy with samsung tv's / screens (but only for that tho )
Tom
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: in the bathroom
May I ask "what for ?" without being too intrusive ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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To watch of course
Kidding aside.
I have a lower back injury (and neck injury) so I bought a bath with jets.
But I get bored extremely fast (really fast, 1 min of not doing anything and I'm bored out of my mind) so when I take a bath I watch a movie and that way I can stand sitting there for an hour or more (depending on the length of the movie), otherwise the maximum I would last is about 5 min and that doesn't do me any good and is just a waste of water and energy to heat the water.
And before anyone asks, yes it helps with the back pains (not the neck tho but...).
Tom
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Rage wrote: They are currently making a lot of fuss about UltraHD (aka "4K"),
I'd use one as a monitor right now, to replace my three 1920x1200 monitors, if only my daily driver machine could output 4K. Other than that, yeah, I'm not really interested in any "content".
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There is actually a big I in "Team", at the beginning, with massive shoulders, preventing this big horizontal block to fall on the rest of the "EAM".
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Wasn't it threatening the rest of the "EAM" with the massive block?
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That would be the more experienced version. 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Blocked @work : potential adult content 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Brits, they always stand out
(when I went to London last time I literally raided Whittard and Twinings shops).
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What? You ran in and stole all their stock? You thieving b'tard!
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And then made it through the frontier with the guns still smoking 
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Could be worse, could've been Gordons.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
(√-sh*t) 2
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..but there is a "M" and a "E" 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Depends on your language. In my language Team is spelled Tim 
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There I, however, a u in c... No. Better not.
I can understand that it could be quite easy to make the mistake. Not spotting it before it has gone out to the customer however.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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""Shaun Wright spend a lot of money on getting liveries added to previously unmarked police cars to give the impression there are more cops than there really are."
That just doesn't make sense, shirley it just gives the impression of the actual number of Police cars. Now if they started painting the publics cars as Police Cars that would give the impression of more Police than there actually are.
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You are expecting the UK Police to make sense?
That's like "police intelligence" - an oximoron... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: "police intelligence" - an oximoron...
Ok, there's no "I" in Oxymoron either..
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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There is a conspiration on the Lounge and the Soapbox today, everyone is trying to kill me or get me fired. Please have mercy! I never wore a red shirt in my life!
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