2022 Budget TV Choices for Black Friday

The 43" ONN TV is showing communist chinese(always small letters) increasing their rates of lost matches at the U.S. Open tennis tournament. Still, they need to increase further, their rates of losses. Anyhow, 2 more communist chinese women players have lost their first round matches to american players.

 

Half a century ago, I saw "petrified forests" around the U.S. west, while on vacation. In later years while not on vacation, I have seen some of the "petrified forests" in my own state. I really enjoy "petrified forests", showing all the "wood" details that have been replaced by minerals. One disappointment was I never saw "petrified forests" in their "live wood" vertical state. Well now, that has been remedied by geologist Shawn Willsey, viewing with the 43" ONN TV, on his U-Tube channel. He showed "petrified sequoia forests" in mid-Idaho on fairly steep slopes. Two of the "trees" were right next to each other about 6 to 8 feet in height, each. Several other "trees" were spread across the otherwise barren rocky slopes, several hundred(?) yards away & marked off by Federal fences in efforts to discourage vandalism. No trails led to all these "trees".
Yes, if you have seen "petrified trees", but not in their vertical state, look them up. They have an...... extra dimension of interest.

PS....Studying Willsey's channel more, in the far north sections of Yellowstone Park, are found other vertical "petrified forests", not marked or encaged at all. These "trees" are even taller(10 feet?) than the Idaho "trees" & on even steeper slopes.

PS I.... Willsey, back in Idaho, examined past fissure volcanic vents that erupted about 1200 years ago. Tho the fissure eruptions were not major like the reports you read about spectacular eruptions, Willsey had lots of detail to describe the various rocks & terrain he explored. As he was summarizing, he stated that it was interesting to note that the fissures at eruption times were hot(of course). But the deeper fissures were presently cool compared to the surrounding barren surface rocks & these fissures collected snow during the winter & still had some snow remaining, even in summer.

 

Continuing to watch on the 43inch ONN TV, the U.S. Open Tennis Grand Slam. The era of Roger Federer, Raphael Nadal, & Novak Djokovic has been broken. Not since 2002, has there NOT been one of the Big Three winning at least one of the four Grand Slam Tournaments....2024 breaking the era! Just an extraordinary fact! Against the many hundreds (thousand?) of superb tennis players during that period, those 3 players have successfully fought them all, through the ravages of time, injuries & recovering from illness, with skill, determination, & top-notch fitness!

It is impossible for me to comprehend such dedication of these three players of continuing excellence.

 

On the 43 inch ONN, watched as the best woman tennis player in the World, Polish Iga Swiatek, lost to Jessica Pegula. Pegula played top-notch, through-out the match, & as she has in the whole U.S. Open. Iga was sputtering....through-out the match, some of her game because Jessica kept hitting excellently. I hope Pegula or the other American, Emma Navarro, now only with the semi-finals & finals ahead, can sweep up the winnings. May both Jessica & Emma, meet in the finals!

 

Well, Emma lost to Sabalenka & only in the last half of her match did Pegula play well to win her semi-final. Hopefully, in the finals, Jessica can play much better than she did in the semi-finals AND against Sabalenka than Navarro played against the russian(always small letters).

 

From Nov 27, 2023:

Saw the above post. Yes, it hasn't been a year yet, but I play the 43inch ONN more than most people, so I've had a year's worth (more?) of entertainment from it. It still amazes me, what you can get for $100. I've had my money's worth from the 43inch ONN TV. May it continue for triple the time.

 

Hi Wayne. Is the OLED TV's the best for picture quality AND energy saving? I haven't paid too much attention to them since I can't afford them.

 

This is an older article and I cannot vouch for its accuracy. Better than nothing though. There's a handy calculator on the page as well as a chart for power versus screen size for LED and OLED.

https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/led-oled-power-consumption-and-electricity-cost

Add: I don't think the chart accounts for pixel count (HD, 4k, 8k), and I'm more interested in the screen sizes below what they tracked for OLED. I have a gut feeling one can hypermile any TV by turning off the TV when not in use, and blanking the display on an OLED TV would serve to lower power consumption on a smart TV where you don't want to lose your place while you take a quick break.

 

Agree that the article is 3 years out-of-date. I'm pretty sure the 43inch ONN TV(called a DLED) that I purchased on a cheap & quick whim is an old design that may match your article tho. So thank you. I see it is good that I couldn't afford a bigger, but cheap TV in an old design or I would have been paying for a lot of electrical consumption. Even at that, the smaller 43inch ONN sucks a goodly amount of power. Outside of the power consumption, you have read my posts that I'm happy with my cheap whim purchase. Some of the TV power consumptions Wayne has reviewed for some of the "latest" & bigger TVs, suggest some TVs have gotten very efficient.

PS....Ah Bill, I see the RTings.com website also tests TVs for durability! Excellent! They find that edge-lit TVs are having durability problems much greater than direct-lit TVs. A long article & I'll let other people decide how good their test procedures are. Generally, they test lower NUMBERS of TVs for 10,000 hours with ON/OFF cycling & at maximum brightness so problems occur quickly. The edge-lit TVs show problems even before 2500 hours of viewing. Good article.

 

While getting gasoline at Costco, I looked at their TV offerings. Costco had a 75" Hisense R6, but much higher priced than what Wayne paid. Sweet image. It appears 4K TV's look better than they did last year. Just excellent! Saw TLC 55" 4K for $300. Nice image. Don't want to, but I'll drift into a WalMart & look at their offerings. Our local Fred Meyer's doesn't carry a good inventory of TV's. We'll see what the holiday prices will be. Personally, I'll have to be happy with the 43" ONN TV till it dies, & it still makes me happy. But, oh! Those 4K images are spectacular! Can I assume correctly that the wondrous 4K images can only occur in those store 4K videos & that other forms of media "broadcasting" can't reach 4K?

 

WalMart didn't have excellent TV set-ups like Costco. Both WalMart & Costco are trying to sell their big TVs first. ONN TV's were for sale. Is ONN a WalMart brand? In this pre-holiday period, only the ONN TV had a price-cut sale & only $50. At least, they said it was a sale. ONN had a variety of well-priced wall mounts for people who need such. Along with tilting wall mounts, were also tilting & SWINGING wall mounts. Swing the TV if you're in the kitchen working or swing it another way for viewing from the living room? Those mounts tho, extend well away from the wall you mount them on. Don't bump your head on them. But really versatile, they are! Looks like you'd have to make sure they are mounted VERY stoutly (earthquake proof?). For people short of space, maybe those wall mounts are what is needed.

 

8:30AM…..Yesterday, was watching YouTube reporting the worst historical hurricanes, cyclones & typhoons. Yes, thousands of people died. Then as they got to the worst weatherings, uncaring neglect by military juntas showed killing of tens of thousands & 100’s of thousands of people. One military gov’t stopped counting at 140,000 people dead, so no “official” higher counts were taken. Finally, one Cyclone devestated Myanmar & surroundings, tidal surges so great as to sweep over entire inhabited islands. Between belated allowance of “foreign” rescue & relief efforts & years of neglect to the poor, the 1970 Cyclone “estimate” was half a million deaths. However, later further studies of the tragedies there, indicated that 1+ million people may have died.
The YouTube announcer hopefully stated that such future crimes against humans won’t occur. However, he further stated that Global Warming & further degradations of gov’ts around the world have set conditions for even greater consequences in the future.

 

For those who loved the book & Clint Eastwood & Merryl Steep movie, Bridges of Madison County, I watched a YouTube video by Matt Cook, Oregon historian. About the Covered Bridges of Cottage Grove, Oregon, they have restored six of their covered bridges. Mildly interesting histories, but really interesting wooden, metal & rod preservations of their city bridges. Two of the bridges are closed off to the public because of flood damage to the support structures, but the bridges are preserved still. Because of much wood construction, the covered bridges help to extend the lifetime of the bridges, some now over 100 years old.

Matt Cook has other Oregon videos that I will view. I have a book of Oregon maps (similar to Delorme maps of the states), which extends the pleasure of Cook’s videos.

 

Watched a video in the region of Jordan Valley, Oregon about Leslie Gulch & Succor Creek in far southeast corner of Oregon. Some of the cliffs & pinnacles above the Gulch are as colorful & tall(more so?) than the well-known John Day units far to the northeast of the state.

 

On the 43 ONN TV, YouTube had a local report of a minor increase of small 0.9 to 2 Magnitude earthquakes under 12,281 foot Mt. Adam’s volcano. Lesser known Mt. Adams is east of Mt. St. Helens. Its lack of fame is due that it is about 2200 feet shorter than Mt. Rainier & visually blocked by Rainier from the Seattle area from ground-level cameras & people. Adams provides sweet views from Yakima, tho. Adams had 6 earthquakes during September 2024, considerably more than its normal single earthquake every 2 or 3 years since 1982. In comparison Mt.St.Helens had dozens of small earthquakes in September 2024. Mt. Adams has been considered less dangerous than other volcanos(listed as 34th) & only had 1 seismic monitor on it.

I’ve only been on lower slopes of Adams once, traveling log roads south from Mt. Rainier between Mt.St.Helens & Adams, & ending at the Columbia River, between Washington state & Oregon.

 

1:10AM……On the 43 ONN TV, was watching the video series of “Wandering Washington”. A women with health issues started hiking the Cascade Mtns. She hiked many of the trails that I walked decades ago. Hmmm…..seems right that the views haven’t changed much over 40 years. She had hiked the mountains & had smoky skies during the forest fires (even from the Bolt Creek fire that was on the thread that I created here). That is one thing that has changed. Altho she uses a nice video camera, I think her scenes could be better. Don’t know if she has greater telephoto lenses or not. But she knows not only the main mountains, but a number of the lesser mountains too, which is informative. Also, she’s hiked a lot of areas that I never have, so it’ll be interesting to watch more of her videos. Doesn’t appear that she gets overwhelming response to her videos, but I hope she keeps videoing. She is also hiking in other states too.

PS……Rained earlier & right now there is a 33% of rain. But it isn’t raining.

 

8:15AM……On the 43 inch ONN TV, continuing to see YouTube videos about “locals” taking “hikes” in areas that I used hike. One woman, Sonya is an older lady, who takes explorations in terrains I never did, because they were too much for me. Her so-called scrambles were actually mountain climbing. She’s been to the top of Gunn Peak. Another guy went to the top of Merchant Peak, after 2 unsuccessful attempts. Fairly knowledgeable, he took alternate routes that avoided boulder clusters that had a possibility of breaking loose. Both he & Sonya’s videos taught me well that I did have enough common sense not to attempt those ascents.

PS…..Watching their 2 climbing videos in a row, gave me the Hibbie Jeepies greater than any horror movie I ever saw.

 

Watching “Wandering Washington” again, she went up to Gothic Basin, like I did 45 years previous with members from church. Gothic Basin is Shan-gri-la & most everyone stops there, of which WW also did. I remember ascending another 600 feet on smooth rock terrain that begged me to go higher. At one point I ascended another 200 feet between 3 rocky spires. I came to an abrupt stop, only 3 more steps from falling off a 1500 foot cliff! Whoa! Am I glad I reigned in my horses. After viewing vistas more intense than Gothic Basin itself, I returned to the church members.