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> Are you going to stick with that 10 year old plasma TV?

Absolutely. It cost me the price of a power supply repair. The display is beautiful and the interface is crapware free.

> I want new tech, and this stuff moves fast.

True! Advertising tech is ever evolving.



My home theater TV is a Hitachi plasma from 2007. It works exactly as it worked the day I bought it. You know what broke? The bog standard MacMini that acted as my HTPC suddenly lost the ability to output 1080i after a software “upgrade” so now I’m stuck with 720p.[1] so even if one of your tech doesn’t fail, something else in your tech circus can fail, ruining the experience anyway.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39687566


> so even if one of your tech doesn’t fail, something else in your tech circus can fail, ruining the experience anyway.

I keep a 15yo gateway laptop hooked up to mine. The battery failed but otherwise it performs better than new (ssd,ram).




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