A new TV compatible with my BT box?

flyingpenguin

I have an old non-SMART TV which I need to replace. I would prefer to get another 'dumb' TV, which seems hard to find! Or would I still be able to connect and use my BT box with a SMART set? Any suggestions or recommendations? I'm having to buy online due to current lockdown. Thanks

Roy

@flyingpenguin

Greetings, and welcome to the Community!

Any TV that has an HDMI input, be the TV dumb or be it smart, will work with your YouView box.

Dumb TVs do still exist, but Smart ones aren’t really any dearer, and you get a much wider choice.

And the smarts on a Smart TV don’t get in the way (except perhaps on Sony TVs, which don't seem to realise that they should be a TV for the broadcast channels first, and smart only when you want that), but give you lots of apps, many of which your YouView already has, but some the YouView box hasn’t got, and some the TV might do better than the YouView box does.

And generally, they work very well over Wi-fi, so you want have to worry about doubling up Ethernet cables to drive them.

Have you thought about what you want in a new TV? What screen size you would like, how much you want to spend? Any preferences as to brand? Give us an idea, and we can perhaps lay out what your choices might be, make a few recommendations, especially as you will be buying sight unseen, as it were. 

kodikid

Smart seems to be the default on TVs these days and there's no cost saving if you do stumble across a non smart set.
The box will work perfectly on any tv if set up correctly. 

jonjoseph

I use a Youview box with a huge Bang and Olufsen cathode ray tv . The colours are still better than modern sets .This one weighs a ton and needs floor space . On ebay they pop up mostly in London. Mine cost £40 and had to be delivered by a man in a van . That cost me £70 . Bargain .

kodikid

Ironically youview could soon be joining your CRT to bathe in glorious obsolescence. 

Roy

jonjoseph said:

I use a Youview box with a huge Bang and Olufsen cathode ray tv . The colours are still better than modern sets .This one weighs a ton and needs floor space . On ebay they pop up mostly in London. Mine cost £40 and had to be delivered by a man in a van . That cost me £70 . Bargain .

How big is ‘huge’? Widescreen, hopefully, and presumably SCART...

The biggest CRT set we ever had (and the biggest we ever saw) was a widescreen 36”, or a smidgeon larger, screenwise, than the now-titchy 32” second sets we have hanging on a couple of our walls. Sony’s first foray into digital TV, replacing the Pace and Sagem digital boxes we had been using.

It was not a success; wrong-footed by the small print of the digital specification, it would not track the channels correctly as the BBC juggled them into place, so we would wake up and find we had BBC Parliament on channel 1, where BBC1 had been the night before, and so on.

After a couple of tries to fix this, Sony gave up, and we had it carted away. The local Sony Centre guys, two of whom were needed to load it into the back of a Volvo estate car, were not pleased, though they refunded us readily enough.

So, back to the set top boxes, which worked until the great table size debacle.....

Oh, the pleasures of being an early adopter. Our first YouView box in 2012, and now @kodikid, that unmitigated bundle of joy, is writing the company and all its products off......

kodikid

Is youview a company??

Roy

kodikid said:

Is youview a company??

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07308805

I despair less of the things you don’t know than of your inability to find them out 😛

John L

kodikid said:

Is youview a company??

Yes, Youview are a Company working with other partners in a very competitive/ever changing market place. 
Is kodikid an "entertainment package" or a product in development? 
John L

jimb

John L said:

kodikid said:

Is youview a company??

Yes, Youview are a Company working with other partners in a very competitive/ever changing market place. 
Is kodikid an "entertainment package" or a product in development? 
John L

@John L without doubt your best post ever.
Thank you - made my day 

Visionman

kodikid said:

Is youview a company??

Your criticism of YouView is always harsh yet you actually know nothing about it. 

Tim C

As always happens here someone comes here for advice and then suddenly the thread goes way off track.

I really do despair.

Roy

Tim C said:

As always happens here someone comes here for advice and then suddenly the thread goes way off track.

I really do despair.

@flyingpenguin 

Greetings, and welcome to the Community!

Any TV that has an HDMI input, be the TV dumb or be it smart, will work with your YouView box.

Dumb TVs do still exist, but Smart ones aren’t really any dearer, and you get a much wider choice.

And the smarts on a Smart TV don’t get in the way (except perhaps on Sony TVs, which don't seem to realise that they should be a TV for the broadcast channels first, and smart only when you want that), but give you lots of apps, many of which your YouView already has, but some the YouView box hasn’t got, and some the TV might do better than the YouView box does.

And generally, they work very well over Wi-fi, so you want have to worry about doubling up Ethernet cables to drive them.

Have you thought about what you want in a new TV? What screen size you would like, how much you want to spend? Any preferences as to brand? Give us an idea, and we can perhaps lay out what your choices might be, make a few recommendations, especially as you will be buying sight unseen, as it were.