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Old Dec 27, 2020 | 8:26 pm
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Originally Posted by DenverBrian
That's it. Looks like good ratings on Costco. Samsung, IMO, is a better play than TCL, and Costco doubles the warranty on TVs; and of course if you decide you don't like it, it's no-questions-asked returns at Costco for 90 days on electronics.

Personally, I've owned Samsung, LG, and Vizio TVs in the flat screen era - never an issue with any of 'em.

If you do get a TCL, make sure it's a "real" TV with tuner and not just a "Roku" style TV monitor - I still think it's a good idea to have a tuner in the TV so you can connect an antenna and get OTA channels, even if just for emergency.
All of TCLs TVs are both Roku-based and have ATSC tuners.

I know that Vizio tried the tuner-less "monitor" thing a few years ago, but they gave that up when everyone started cluing in to just how much free, over the air digital [including some HD] content there was out there.

And with ATSC 3 now out, there will be even more high quality, over the air free content on the all of the network sub-bands. Of course you will have to have an ATSC 3-compatible tuner...
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