I posted recently of my annoyance that the remote control that came with our TV did not have the means to adjust the picture, nor did the TV itself. I downloaded the app onto my iPhone so I could make adjustments, with little success. Going to the calibration menu, I chose the white balance test. The screen looks like a blue sky with white clouds. Not good. I tried resetting by turning off the TV, unplugging it, and holding the Input button (I also tried the power button) for 10 seconds as the Visio support guy suggested. The picture is still bad. Mrs. L.A. bought the TV just a few years ago, and it’s been great – until it wasn’t. I suppose it might be repaired, but Costco has a 65" LG 4K for $800.
I had an old TV that didn’t require a remote control, which was a good thing because we lost it. Fortunately the volume, channel and power buttons were actual buttons, not membrane switches, and were labelled. The label writing was small, but forward-facing (unlike the current TV at my place, where the membrane switches are behind the screen and I don’t even know if there are labels there).
The adjust buttons were very simple, and the ability to filter out stations that didn’t work (because we were using an antenna) was archaic, but it worked. Every once in a while the TV would “forget” these stations and we’d have to do that all over again.
I had a bad experience once, as a teenager, visiting family out of the country. The adults left, and we found we could not change the channels because the remote’s batteries had died. We didn’t know where any extra batteries could be found, and being kids didn’t want to buy a new set. So no TV for several hours. I remarked that this was no problem where I lived as that TV was not dependent on a remote control.
This is one reason I don’t watch TV anymore. I have the internet. I could simply hook a big screen TV to my computer if I wanted to watch something really high quality. Someone else watches the TV. They’re always losing the remote, and it’s probably impossible to physically attach the remote to the TV via a long cord so you cannot lose it. (I looked for TV sets with this feature. Either my Google skills suck, or they literally don’t exist.)
Because of the issue you are facing, you’re thinking of spending $800 to “fix” it. There’s no guarantee the new TV won’t have a problem either. I wonder if they sell flatscreens with the archaic interfaces, because I would consider buying one of those… but not for $800 (I presume USD).
I’m looking at a Sony KD65X750F 65-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV. I like Sony, and the price isn’t too bad; but there’s a review that is concerning:
It sounds like you get a bunch of ads when you turn the TV on, but it sounds like you can turn them off if you buy (?) a book that tells you how to do it. Am I reading that right?
Thanks.