- Joined
- Dec 22, 2006
- Messages
- 26,561
- Reaction score
- 677
- Points
- 113
- Location
- Texas, where else?
- Your Mac's Specs
- 15" MBP '06 2.33 C2D 4GB 10.7; 13" MBA '14 1.8 i7 8GB 10.11; 21" iMac '13 2.9 i5 8GB 10.11; 6S
Nabooley:
To be honest: Don't have a clue what may be available in that price range.
If I've ever owned a TV in that price range it's too long ago to remember.
Am personally a Panasonic buyer currently because their plasma displays are the best displays on the market. Am down to only 2 TVs in the house - both are Panny plasma displays.
Brands I recommend looking at include Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi (are they still making tvs?), and Sony.
Happen to find an LG or Sharp you like at the price point you want, they make some nice TVs also.
I wouldn't buy one, but have to admit, at the lower price points, seems Vizio is the King of the throw away TV brands. I wouldn't buy a Sanyo either, but for those really needing a price point lower than the major players and can't find even a Vizio, well, ok.
Brands I recommend you never take home with you: Westinghouse, RCA, Phillips (in fact, all the names that were well respected in the 50s to 80s of the last century) and Samsung.
Brands I don't know anything about, but wouldn't give them a 2nd glance in the store:
Insignia, JVC, Element, Sceptre, Coby (and every other brand you've never heard of &/or is not a major player in the TV market). With TVs, stick with the name brand players.
What I recommend you look for would be a minimum of 2-3 HDMI inputs.
Check out Amazon at your price point, search by brand name.
Pick about 3 that have good reviews, then head to the manufacturers web site - look up the owner's manual and then buy the one that gives you directions in the manual for connecting a separate audio input with an HDMI input. If they've got those directions, then the rest of the manual is likely to be pretty good also.
As for cabling - get a TV with HDMI inputs and you have the right adapter/cable for that.
Audio cable - you won't know what you need until you pick the TV. Some use RCA jacks and some use a 3.5mm stereo jack to work with the HDMI input.
To be honest: Don't have a clue what may be available in that price range.
If I've ever owned a TV in that price range it's too long ago to remember.
Am personally a Panasonic buyer currently because their plasma displays are the best displays on the market. Am down to only 2 TVs in the house - both are Panny plasma displays.
Brands I recommend looking at include Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi (are they still making tvs?), and Sony.
Happen to find an LG or Sharp you like at the price point you want, they make some nice TVs also.
I wouldn't buy one, but have to admit, at the lower price points, seems Vizio is the King of the throw away TV brands. I wouldn't buy a Sanyo either, but for those really needing a price point lower than the major players and can't find even a Vizio, well, ok.
Brands I recommend you never take home with you: Westinghouse, RCA, Phillips (in fact, all the names that were well respected in the 50s to 80s of the last century) and Samsung.
Brands I don't know anything about, but wouldn't give them a 2nd glance in the store:
Insignia, JVC, Element, Sceptre, Coby (and every other brand you've never heard of &/or is not a major player in the TV market). With TVs, stick with the name brand players.
What I recommend you look for would be a minimum of 2-3 HDMI inputs.
Check out Amazon at your price point, search by brand name.
Pick about 3 that have good reviews, then head to the manufacturers web site - look up the owner's manual and then buy the one that gives you directions in the manual for connecting a separate audio input with an HDMI input. If they've got those directions, then the rest of the manual is likely to be pretty good also.
As for cabling - get a TV with HDMI inputs and you have the right adapter/cable for that.
Audio cable - you won't know what you need until you pick the TV. Some use RCA jacks and some use a 3.5mm stereo jack to work with the HDMI input.