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It turns out, if it doesn't have a TV tuner then they aren't allowed to call it a television. So if the label actually says "TV" instead of "monitor" then it has to have a TV tuner, and presumably a way to connect the antenna.
so CCTV is a misnomer
It's been my observation that as TVs got smarter, people have gotten dumber. Correlation or coincidence? Only The Shadow knows.
I've got a smart TV, in my livingroom it's now about 8 years old, but within 3 years of purchase its smarts stopped getting updated and started sliding back down the evolutionary scale (compatability issues with some modern streaming services) until I gave up on its internal smarts and bought an Amazon "FireTV Stick" to plug into one of its HDMI ports. That bypassed the TV's compatability issues with modern streaming standards, but the disadvantage was having to use a separate remote control.
The FireTV Stick worked well until about 4 years later when it too stopped getting its firmware upgraded and its remote was beginning to develop button fatigue, but it was easily replaceable with a newer version FireTV Stick. The old FireTV Stick has now been moved to my bedroom's dumb TV that is 15 years old, and continues to work well enough for the limited use it gets up there.
My current TV in my livingroom is a nice 42" (perfect size for my room and seating arrangement) but it's just "FullHD" (1080p) and I've been considering an "UltraHD" (4K) and have recently purchased (at significant holiday savings) the newest version of the FireTV Stick that handles 4K streaming, just in case the current FireTV Stick kicks the bucket, and to have on hand if/when I get a 4K TV.
Complaint: Why did I feel compelled to say "just FullHD"? Have we already forgotten how incredible 1080p resolution is compared to the TVs of the last century?
Remember when a 42" TV was housed in a 5 foot square 3 foot deep box that projected a 520 line image, upward from a small cathode ray tube via a mirror onto a frosted 42" screen facing the viewer, still had convergence issues(see image below), was very dim, low contrast, and blurry at that screen size & resolution, weighed as much as a refrigerator, and cost as much as an automobile? Ah, the good old days.
And when, in the good old days, did a TV last 15 years without requiring professional image tweaking or malfunction repair service?
Example of a really bad convergence issue:
When our last TV stopped working (Vizio televisions don’t last 12 years plus they can’t call it a television anyway), it was a time that I didn’t think I should spend any money. But it was also a time that we needed a new TV. So we loaded up the truck and we moved to Beverly.
We actually went to Costco… in a car... and I bought the lowest cost TV I could find. It was a 43 inch 1080P Samsung model and it had very little of what one would call “features”. I think the features include the ability to change volume and change the channel (oh it has a TV tuner), and maybe some other settings that don’t actually matter. The “Smart” functions are there but the only one they update is the one that tells Samsung what you’re doing.
Like me, it was the most basic model one could find but if you look at it from the right angle, it looks like the more expensive models. And it is still working now, several years later. It just so happens that the one good viewing angle this TV has is the angle we have when seated in front of it. And the sound doesn’t matter because it’s connected to my aging but still great sounding Denon receiver. One day I will get a new receiver and think to myself, “this isn’t going to last 12 years either”. But the TV might.
...the last television I had blew up in 2002 or 2003 (too long ago to remember the actual year). It was one (CRT model) I got at a hotel sale with that had a semi programmable push button changer and remote. Lasted about 5 years.
I haven't replaced it since even though I had offers of free ones including a 42" flat screen (that would have taken up a large portion of one wall in my current studio).
Part of the decision was cable providers which charged a big fee ro get decent things to watch and often played the old "bait & switch" game. . The other part was paying that bill only to be assaulted by adverts every 10 minutes of so (often for about 4 to 5 minutes at a time). I eventually cancelled my cable subscription a little over year before the television expired, after they hit me with another surprise bait & switch.
Now, nearly a quarter of a century later, I really don't miss it much. Most of what is in "free television" is rubbish like reality shows conspiracy theory programmes, and vapid sitcoms. To get the dozen or so channels I'd actually watch via cable tends to involve a premium price in addition to paying for the the 800+ channels of rubbish I have little to no interest in.
So basically, a big expense saved and a major distraction eliminated which translates more time for Daz, my writing, and other important things.. Not a bad trade-off.
The interesting part is I grew up in the 1950s-60s "television" era when the worst punishment one could imagine was not being able to watch for a week..
My TV came in today. I set it up and it works with my antenna. It is now close to my bed time so I am going to go to bed. I already turned off the tv.
It's probably time to get out of bed. The TV has blown up by now. It might be better to go outside and play.