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Yes $1800 is a lot of money and you didn't do research on it before you bought it ?
Hey people, my wife bought this TV, not me. I would have been fine with a $500 TV. She did a lot of research and she wanted an $1800 TV for the Ultra HD. And the TV she got was a Sony so yes, I would expect us to be able to hear it without having to spend another $100+ on a soundbar. We even got the soundbar on sale. It was $200, so we "saved" $80. We got this one (apparently the price went up since then):
If she did enough research then reviews and forum posts should have revealed that sound quality is poor and an additional sound bar is recommended. If nobody else is reporting that, perhaps your unit is defective and you are not getting the quality of sound that you are supposed to be getting?
Pat: You do sound stressed. Do any of your tasks need to be completed right away or can it wait? I find myself in your shoes quite often, disgusted with modern technology and ready to throw it all out the window. What helps me is to take time away from each effort and go at it another day. It sorta gels in my head over night and gets easier with a new day.
I hope it does get easier for you. I, too, am frustrated.
It's a huge time-sucker-stealer. in a very bad way. stuff going wrong or just pulling your focus in to it too much. as well as a money pit, making a few people into billionnaires while addicting us all. But i have to admit i see some communication value in the internet.
You all are missing the positive aspects of technology that make our lives fuller and more interesting. Aspects like regularly changing our usernames and passwords for banking, Medicare, cable service, our communication devices, magazine subscriptions, etc., all of which involve conforming to protocols which are not revealed to us until we fail to follow them, in which case we are locked out for 24 hours before we can try and fail again to comply, thus losing access to our own accounts until we try to call the 800 number for customer assistance which requires us to shout “yes!” to robotic statements confirming that we are indeed who we claim to be, living where we live, with the same birthdate that we were born with, using the same telephone number which we are currently calling from, with, yes, the same last four digits of our social security number, in the zip code where we live — all so that we can be reminded that all of our needs can be addressed by logging into our online account...
I mean, without all of this marvelous technological efficiency, how would corporations manage to achieve grotesque profitability by eliminating as many actual human employees as possible while treating their customers as annoyances to be driven to the brink of madness by soulless diabolical data loops?
Hey people, my wife bought this TV, not me. I would have been fine with a $500 TV. She did a lot of research and she wanted an $1800 TV for the Ultra HD. And the TV she got was a Sony so yes, I would expect us to be able to hear it without having to spend another $100+ on a soundbar. We even got the soundbar on sale. It was $200, so we "saved" $80. We got this one (apparently the price went up since then):
We bought a Sony plasma tv back when they first came out. Maybe early 2000? It was 1700 on the shelf but we paid half due to some discount at the military exchange store. Still going strong. So I think you did okay.
The other way I keep from being frustrated is that there are only a few technologies that I buy the most recent versions of (the only one that comes to mind is Kindle ereaders)- usually I try to wait until something has been out at least a year.
Right now, for instance, I am looking at some of those remote image doorbells, so I can put one at the end of the long walkway by the gate and see who is coming up the walk. The reviews are a bit iffy, so I will wait a bit and see.
The other way I keep from being frustrated is that there are only a few technologies that I buy the most recent versions of (the only one that comes to mind is Kindle ereaders)- usually I try to wait until something has been out at least a year.
Right now, for instance, I am looking at some of those remote image doorbells, so I can put one at the end of the long walkway by the gate and see who is coming up the walk. The reviews are a bit iffy, so I will wait a bit and see.
I agree on waiting with new tech, both so the bugs can be worked out and so the price comes down.
I used to have a "no upgrade" rule unless what I already had broke (people made fun of me for not having a flat screen ), but that went by the wayside as DH likes new tech.
Jokes on him, he retired early and he will have to learn a new word "budget."
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), but that went by the wayside as DH likes new tech.
