And, maybe Thorfire is better about this, but in generalā¦ quality tends not to be consistent over time with items manufactured in China. People are always looking for ways to increase the margins by a few cents, so parts change and designs change and after a while the thing barely resembles its original self. This is why the Q8 was created in the first place ā because original-quality SRKs were no longer available.
Plus, the price will probably go up significantly after the first batchā¦ so itās good to get them while theyāre hot.
Kepling, pretty sure it was discussed that the spring change wouldānt require a sample round, probably some pictures and some specs and then theyād run with it. My memory though, can get things was out of alignment, so itād be nice to hear more on this from The Miller and/or Tom E.
I donāt think so.
The preformance on a single spring is tested with 30Q cells and a change to one bigger instead of 2 smaller can only improve things so it should be good.
Is Netflix that expensive in USA?
Here it costs 20$ or so and we share the expenses with my family, since we use it with 3 families, and still everyone has their own profile.
Headless me walking a friend of mine, but thatās now, when she first me she hated me just line any other new person in the house.
Now i get showered in love when we meet ( not my dog belong to my little sisters former boyfriend )
Our first walk i got dragged along and was just there for the ride, now there is no doubt in how our walks go, until we meet another dog then she go hyper and want to play as she have never learned to handle such a situation.
Yokā, yes, $31 and change for my package that includes 3 DVDs and streaming. The streaming basically doesnāt work through the smart TV*, only through the computer and I only watch movies on the computer monitor when the wife has the big screen once every few months. So IMO itās too expensive for what I get.
* Streaming now works fine through the Fire Stick. But I wonāt keep both Amazon Prime and Netflix; the goal is to drop Netflix.
But the straw that broke the camels back with Netflix was their move to a simple thumbs up or thumbs down for suggestions as to whether I will like a movie. The old system was a 5 star rating that could produce a 2.6 rating (for instance). Depending on the movie I could take a chance and lots of times it worked out. Now itās yes or no, so itās basically a useless rating system. They want to make the decision for me and thatās not what I want at all.
So Iām looking around. FWIW, streaming works so much better through the TV with the fire stick since it uses my WiFi. So itās LG programming that somehow screws up the streaming since the fire stick goes around LG programming within the TV. Movies now load instantly, if I pause a movie I can come back to it with no message that it canāt be done and try again later, Just better all around.
But to get full use out of it requires one to pay for premium content of some sort.
One thing the LG smart TV will do is the internet, sort of. If a race is happening in the UK and it isnāt being shown locally I can sometimes go online and find it streaming through āprivateā websites. But to use the internet on the TV as Iām doing now is just rubbish. It can be done, but if that was my sole method of internet access I wouldnāt be on the internet.
I share your experience with smart TVās.
I own a philips home theatre set (one of the most expensive ones at the time) and it is RUBBISH
Since Philips fell in Chinese hands it is crap.
The HTS was working āfineā for 1 year, after that i did some firmware upgrades and gradually some features of the smart tv were disabled, and now it is not even smart anymore, nothing works, every internet feature is just disabled! (Did i pay 899ā¬ for that crap?)
I can use the radio/cd/dvd/br functions and thats it.
Even the standby button which is a physical button on the thing does not work 9 out of 10 times, so i have to use the remote.
No i am done with philips, but the WAF was playing at the time.
I preferred a nice japanese brand.
Now i am using a 30ā¬ chromecast and it works magnificent, my kids play youtube on the ipad and cast it to the TV, and during the evening i and/or my wife use Netflix or other media.
Works like a charm using WiFi. I think it can be compared with the firestick
I got my first TV at the tender age of 45, so if it start being a smart it will go strait for recycling plant.
Not much worth watching on flow TV, and i cant seem to find a steaming service that steam what i like to see, and thatās not mind numming series and so on.
Sadly i am forced by my landlord to pay for a cable TV package, if it wasent for that sad fact my TV would be in its box.
Arrgh! Cable! I wonāt even consider it today. I must have cable for my internet (and now Amazon Prime), or pay even higher prices for decent connection rates via other means. But to get a bundled cable package is just under $100, I donāt remember the actual amount. But basically itās near $1200/year for most channels that I have absolutely no interest in watching and donāt want to support. Maybe someday a cable company will have a package that allows me to get only the channels I want. Then I might consider cable but not until then. So I maintain an antenna.
I have to use the cable to have an internet connection, costs 60ā¬ per month, fiberoptics is even more expensive! but the internet connection is quite good and 150Mbps
The fastest I can get is 60Mps, but I think weāre presently at 25. I ought to call and get the upgrade since itās basically free, but Iām not having problems at 25 so IMO it just isnāt worth making the call.
OT, same experience here with smart TVās. Slow and klunky with less than ideal UI.
Instead I run a 20ft hdmi cable from the gaming/entertainment PC to the receiver and use a wireless mouse and sometimes keyboard to navigate Netflix/YouTube/Light Gaming/etc on the big screen TV. Universal remote sets everything to the correct input with a push of a button.