I’m in a similar boat. We’ve still got a CRT TV – flat screen Sony job that seems to be on the way out.
Every now & again one side of it goes a bit blurry & if there is a lot of white on the screen the colour balance sometimes shifts towards magenta quite badly.
Anyhoo – the upshot is that we are thinking about splashing out on a flat screen telly – although annoyingly it isn’t ‘just’ a flat screen telly, is it? Realistically, it’ll be telly, stand, soundbar, cables & perhaps a blu-ray player (still rocking a bog standard DVD player)…..
There was a thread about this recently & someone who was fairly knowledgeable about it was giving his opinion on where telly’s are going.
Apparently 4k and High Dynamic Range are where it’s all going, so he was recommending that there is no point going for a ‘normal’ HD tv.
I seem to remember something being said about the manufacturer’s are currently stripping out the ‘normal’ HD TV’s to bring the prices down so the 4k ones can fill the gap – so basically as I remember it, his view was that the current ‘normal HD’ TVs are all pretty rubbish as they are having all the decent gubbins stripped out of them.
It’s all very confusing to be honest.
I don’t wanna pay over the odds for a 4K telly, that will never get a 4k source fed to it, or won’t be ‘4k’ enough for when it does all take off.
But equally, I don’t want to pay less money for a ‘normal HD’ tv and then find that in 2 years it’s already outdated & we are yet again living in luddite land with a TV that is behind the times…..
Tempted to spend about £500 on a 4k telly and just be done. Suspect that’s the bottom end of what I should be spending though….