Johnny B Good posted
It seems to me that all the TV manufacturers are determined to
overwhelm their customer base with a needlessly vast repertoire of
model variants designed with the sole purpose of confusing the **** out
of their customers so as to disguise the one decent VFM (value for
money) example [1] that may or may not be hidden in each model class in
order to force their customers into buying something they'll become
dissatisfied with sooner, rather than later so as to create a 'need to
upgrade' just a short year or two later in order to bolster demand for
'newer and better' product.


This is also true of TV recorders and no doubt many related products.

The trouble is that you do not actually know what software features the
machine does and doesn't have until you get it home and play with it for
a few days. Nor do you know how reliable it is in terms of
crash-resilience. IME the recorders released in the past couple of years
are in both respects far worse than the earlier generation. In
particular the broadcast programme guides are extremely poorly designed.


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Jack