SHEFFIELD wrote:

I hear that B&O have done an about turn and Eclipse is no longer EOL... 😀

I hope that’s the case. I think it’s the best sounding television I’ve ever heard

Getting back to the original post, this really is very much the issue. Our TV died recently and the wife was fixed on a £450 Panasonic TV from Costco with a 5 year warranty. The picture was the worst I’ve ever seen in my life, absolutely terrible, fluorescent pixels crawling like ants and the sound was even worse rather like listening to a smart phone from a distance sounding tinny, anaemic and muffled. To all my objections her simple answer was “It’s good enough for me and the kids, you hardly watch the TV...you’ll get used to it...”. This TV now sits in our family room and serves CBeebies, BBC news, and my wife’s passion for the usual menu of cooking/dancing competition programmes. There are more and more people like my wife and less like me. If the big players like Sony and Panasonic struggle to make money off TVs, our little B&O really has its work cut out.

What can you say.....without being impolite 🤔

Did she at least pay for the g**d d*mn thing herself?

 

MM

She did pay for it herself - like most married couples from....our joint bank account

Maybe I’m just lucky, but with my wife if it’s something we care for, that wins over apathy. That way if we feel strongly for something, we get it. If just anything will do, we pick whatever is available and affordable.