What was the model number?
That’s my excuse.
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I mean for the TV.
I think it’s an E60-E3.
Neither of yinz are millenials, especially not your sister. I’d say you fall into late Gen X, like me.
I hear what y’all are saying, but I’d like to point out that for those of us with smartphones, things are grand. Last night I was setting up a pork butt in a sous vide cooker. This was to be a 72 hour bath, and I remembered that on this sous vide unit (we have three) there was something special I needed to do to go beyond 48 hours.
I could have searched our filing cabinet for the original instruction book, but it was easier to just search for it on my phone. A minute later, everything was set. This morning I looked at my phone to check on the cooking (the sous vide is Bluetooth and wifi enabled) and all is well.
If my smartphone died right now, I’d call off work and procur an immediate replacement rather than go without for any length of time.
Why should I need to fork up 13 bucks for a proper remote from a third party? you might say.
Because you bought a cheap ass budget brand and can afford to pay extra to get a remote with not only a “menu” button, but also designated buttons for Amazon and Netflix. Maybe this will be a bummer once Disney+ goes live, but my guess is you’ll be able to get a new universal remote for about the same money by then.
Should it be concidered a TV if it doesn’t even have a tuner? That’s a monitor, no matter what they call it.
In fact it legally can’t be called a TV if it doesn’t have a tuner which is why that model is a ‘Home Theater Display’. What a crock.
The one I bought was under $8.
Personally, I’ve always liked Sonys. Mrs. L.A. decided to get a new TV and picked the Vizio. I wouldn’t have bought it myself, but once she makes up her mind it’s dangerous to try to change it. It’s actually been very good, except for the recent colour issue and requiring two or three tries to turn it on.
It’s weird, because for many decades, a tuner was absolutely necessary but now, between cable/satellite and streaming services some (many?) people never use the tuner.
Edited to add, I’d willingly give up the tuner if my set came with more than just four HDMI inputs.
Needing to download an app for every facet of daily life is beyond annoying. I have a smartphone, but it is seven years old. I refuse to upgrade as long as this phone still does what I need it to do (phone calls, texts, email, photos, Google Maps, and the occasional quick argument-settling Google search). But it has an 8GB memory. A large portion of that is taken up by the OS. I have less than 10 apps downloaded and the phone memory is nearly completely full. I absolutely, categorically REFUSE to download another app to go about my daily life, and it seems that I am daily exhorted to do so. My coffee pot has an app. My thermostat. My pressure cooker. The grocery store. The other grocery store. Amazon (I actually use that one), fifteen different websites (just let me use the website I am already on! Why an app? I’m already here on your website!), the kids’ schools, every restaurant I visit,etc, etc ad infinitum. Are there people who really have the storage capacity to download all of these apps? To say nothing of the privacy concerns, as mentioned upthread…
I am not any sort of religious fanatic but if I owned a smartphone (I don’t) I would NOT carry it at all times. I’m glued to my laptop for hours each day and regard my laptop-less outings (to coffee shops, or whatever) as a breath of fresh air.
Sometimes I take a book with me, which I read not in a Kindle format but … (wait for it) … paper and print! :eek:
(This may seem strange given I was once a bona fide professional computer nerd. But back in the day my favorite computers were broken machines! A top-notch field engineer and I used to play a game: remove a wire (one of many thousands of wires) from the inside of a million-dollar mainframe and see how long it took the other guy to run diagnostics and identify the missing wire!)
Save yourself some hassle and get either a burner phone as I mentioned upthread or tablet to use for dumb household stuff. You can make up a new Google account exclusive to that device and maintain some measure of privacy.
Why does a coffee pot need an app, anyway? 
You load it up, and press the Start (or Delay) button. What, you’re going to wake up ten minutes early to turn on your coffee pot from bed? Let the pot do it itself.
I know what you mean, and don’t think that this sounds arrogant, condescending and incredibly pompous at all.
I for one, feel that any Americans who haven’t been to at least 8 different foreign countries so far in 2019 are simply all modern day Flat-Earthers.
Ironically enough, the last two cheap 19 inch computer monitors I’ve had have tossed in an NTSC/ATSC/QAM tuner “for free.”
I completely agree! But I needed to download the app to set the time on the clock. I promptly deleted it right after. It was ridiculous.
Pretty soon we’ll need an app to control all of the various apps we’ve been forced to download.
Absolutely. For probably the same price that you paid for your 8 GB phone years ago you can now get a phone with 32 GB, 64 GB, maybe even 128 GB. (And of course for more money you can get more memory–256 GB, 512 GB, or 1024 GB.)
Depending on how your phone is set up, you might be able to expand the memory on the phone that you have right now. If it supports “Adaptable Memory” you can upgrade your old phone to 40 GB of virtual internal memory for five bucks.