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Waiting For Gear-Dot
Sep. 24th, 2024 09:24 pmOur family room TV has been getting long in the tooth, as it's right around 10 years old now. I know this, because it is a Samsung plasma set from the last year of manufacture, which was 2014. Plasma sets have a pretty good lifetime, but the brightness does gradually degrade with age. I've had to adjust the picture on the set to a fairly aggressive level of brightness to keep things happy. This is not helped by the trend to "dark and mumbly" that Gretchen has observed in TV programming for some years now.
Whenever I have an aging piece of gear, I start shopping as I try to figure out what to get to replace it. In this case, it's not too hard to figure out. The right thing to replace the current TV with is a slightly larger LG OLED set. We have an LG OLED set from several years back up in our bedroom -- I'm not sure how old it is exactly, but it was one of the last things that we purchased from H.H. Gregg before they folded up operations. (Looks like that would be 2016.) It is a lovely set. And from the reviews, the LG OLED sets have only gotten better.
They aren't cheap though. Not horrible (until you get to the *really* big sets), but noticeably expensive -- expensive enough that they are one of those things that you don't just buy on a whim. Instead, you stalk them.
I mentioned during the Festival of the Living Rooms that I had placed an order for a new set of surround sound speakers. This was true.
I also had ordered a new LG OLED TV to go with them.
We have a corporate partners deal at work where a number of companies will let you sign up with them for special offers that show up regularly in my work mailbox. One of those companies is LG. The weekend before last, an offer showed up for the top of the line LG OLED TV bundled with a Dolby Atmos sound bar (list price substantial).
These two things were bundled together for a price that was $1100 less than the TV by itself was selling for on Amazon. It was a ludicrously good deal -- good enough to make me believe that the economy in general is not nearly as good as some people are saying, because that's a *huge* discount.
Assuming, of course, that you'd like surround sound.
And we *need* surround sound. I believe I've explained that already.
I asked Gretchen and she told me to go ahead and order it. And I did.
The sound bar showed up last Friday. The delivery date for the TV remained stubbornly unknown, despite my having been told by LG customer service that they'd update it on Thursday last week.
They didn't. And so I called today to ask when I would be seeing the TV. They have now called the local delivery service that brings the TV out to your house and sets it up on the stand (the Camel's Nose, which is going to look tiny beneath the new TV) and I am told that they will contact me shortly to tell me when the new TV is showing up.
I am looking forward to this.
I will, of course, believe it when I see it. :)
Whenever I have an aging piece of gear, I start shopping as I try to figure out what to get to replace it. In this case, it's not too hard to figure out. The right thing to replace the current TV with is a slightly larger LG OLED set. We have an LG OLED set from several years back up in our bedroom -- I'm not sure how old it is exactly, but it was one of the last things that we purchased from H.H. Gregg before they folded up operations. (Looks like that would be 2016.) It is a lovely set. And from the reviews, the LG OLED sets have only gotten better.
They aren't cheap though. Not horrible (until you get to the *really* big sets), but noticeably expensive -- expensive enough that they are one of those things that you don't just buy on a whim. Instead, you stalk them.
I mentioned during the Festival of the Living Rooms that I had placed an order for a new set of surround sound speakers. This was true.
I also had ordered a new LG OLED TV to go with them.
We have a corporate partners deal at work where a number of companies will let you sign up with them for special offers that show up regularly in my work mailbox. One of those companies is LG. The weekend before last, an offer showed up for the top of the line LG OLED TV bundled with a Dolby Atmos sound bar (list price substantial).
These two things were bundled together for a price that was $1100 less than the TV by itself was selling for on Amazon. It was a ludicrously good deal -- good enough to make me believe that the economy in general is not nearly as good as some people are saying, because that's a *huge* discount.
Assuming, of course, that you'd like surround sound.
And we *need* surround sound. I believe I've explained that already.
I asked Gretchen and she told me to go ahead and order it. And I did.
The sound bar showed up last Friday. The delivery date for the TV remained stubbornly unknown, despite my having been told by LG customer service that they'd update it on Thursday last week.
They didn't. And so I called today to ask when I would be seeing the TV. They have now called the local delivery service that brings the TV out to your house and sets it up on the stand (the Camel's Nose, which is going to look tiny beneath the new TV) and I am told that they will contact me shortly to tell me when the new TV is showing up.
I am looking forward to this.
I will, of course, believe it when I see it. :)