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In our back room we have a plasma telly with a glass screen as this is more resistant to damage from stickle bricks etc. It is the only telly in the house.
We want to put another telly in the front room. Our 21 month-old won't spend as much time here, but he will be in and around the room, so I'm considering whether a plasma or LED TV is most suitable. LED uses less power and should give a better picture in a more sunlit room, but I'm worried about catastrophic damage to a £500 telly.
Apart from "Mount it on the wall", does anyone have any advice? Am I thinking about it too much?
Time to bring this one out again 🙂
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A kid in the village here has severe Autism. At 5, he has destroyed 4 TV's this year through frustration and outbursts... 😯
Child - 1, Expensive or fragile object - 0
A scoreline repeated throughout history
Mine could barely stand and still managed to rip the grilles from my speakers 🙂
[i]Am I thinking about it too much?
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Yep, surely you've got things of far more value already just 'hanging' around?
Table maybe, sofa etc
Most damage my kids ever did were a set of stone scars on my company car, at child height, all the way around.
You have a child. Things get broken. Live with it.
Our LCD set has survived 3+ years so far. Other things less so.
It never occurred to me to ask this question when I had an infant. I guess I was more worried bout electrical sockets, pointy corners on tables, breakable glass and other sharp objects.
Buy a Humax PVR and pop down the tip and grab a 32" CRT. If he breaks that then go get another...and another...
I apparently pushed my best friend into a TV when I was a kid. It burst her lip wide open but the TV survived. I can't remember any of it but I have been told 'she's a very pretty lassie these days but you can still make out the scar,although she covers it well with make-up' 😯
I felt so bad when I heard this.
The TV's back in the mid 70's could take a good beating
Sorry Trout. No advice,just a pointless story :O)
We got a custom-cut bit of Perspex, and attached it with sticky Velcro - no noticeable effect on image quality (as long as you wipe off the peanut butter hand prints), and cost about £40.
I had thought about a screen protector, and could relatively easily get the acrylic sheet and fabricate it, but might opt for plasma as it is cheaper and saves the screen protector hassle.