On 06/09/2020 17:23, Tim Streater wrote:
On 06 Sep 2020 at 12:42:36 BST, John Rumm
wrote:

On 06/09/2020 08:59, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:

Well, since the life of a tv is supposed to be five years, I'd imagine the
firmware updates for an open source OS are more likely to continue than some
dodgy in house mish mash.
LG are quite good value, but as has been said, most of the tvs these days,I
am sur have good pictures, but as always, its the sound that is the poor
relation, so why not by a nice sound bar or surround system and take a cheap
telly? If you don't need tha talking menues and increasing use of voice
assistants, then I'd have though that might be quite nice in a bedroom.

Decent sound and the drive to ever thinner flat screens is always going
to make uncomfortable bed fellows. So yup, taking care of the audio
"outside the box" is usually going to yield much better results.

Which is what I do. The only question is, where to get an audio tap off the
telly to provide best quality?

Two options normally, most will support ARC on one of the HDMI channels,
so with a suitable AV amp, it can take a 5.1 feed from "whatever the TV
is showing". Alternatively most have an optical out, and a cheap
amazon/fleabay D to A converter will give you stereo analogue.


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Cheers,

John.

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