I thought I needed a 32 inch TV, at least that is what the dead Sony was. Came back from Wally Mart with a Samsung UN32M4500 for only $149. The Sony cost $400 ten years ago. I could have fit a new 40 inch into the living room, the entire TV is smaller. The old Sony had a sizable bezel around the 32 inch screen. The new Samsung has no bezel at all, and I could have fit the next bigger size into the .living room.
New Samsung has nice video, two HDMI ports, one for the DVD player and one for the cable box. Apparently Samsung doesn't offer audio outputs jack anymore so I cannot feed the TV sound into my stereo speakers. It does come with an internet connection. The setup program asked for my router password. I gave it the password from my address book, and that didn't work. I will have to have a long conversation with the router about that. Video is good, nice and bright. VCR sorta works, but the video is terrible, black and white, heavy checker board, no sound. Might be the tape, but it probably isn't. I'll try a known good tape later tonight.
It would be nice if they would mold the plastic casework in something besides gloss black. The black makes it hard to read serial numbers, model numbers, and connector designations, and to see screws and make fastenings.
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