We haven't bought a television since the 24" LG that's part of our office setup. It's the best of our three sets, but that's not saying a lot... the older 47" downstairs (part of an arcade rig) has a bad HDMI input because of a lightning strike (which is why my parents handed it over), and oddly only one port was fried, the other three work, and it's otherwise been a marvelous television. But the 55" in our living room is awful, and it's only a couple of years newer than the 47, so I perfectly understand your father's "hell no" reaction. The remote isn't very good on it, has that stupid keyboard on the backside, and the receiver we bought for it actually helps to neutralize the worst quirk, which is if it doesn't see a signal on whatever input you're on, it pretty quickly decides that we should be watching OTA signals. Pretty quickly means that a resolution change on a Framemeister external upscaler we use was just long enough (about 4 seconds) it would decide the signal was dead and switch, and we'd have to manually change it back. Which makes it really damned hard to troubleshoot signal issues. I don't remember if it was a nagger regarding the initial internet hookup, but we've also had issues with getting it to reliably stream from Amazon.
To be honest, if we were to have the choice again, we would have taken the damned thing back. As it is, if the 47 on the arcade rig dies, I'd be buying a television specifically for that, rather than attempting to move the 55 down, it's that bad. I have been tempted to see if I can find an open firmware to drop on it and see if that clears up the worst of the issues.
As a side note, my personal preference for internet streaming to television is to use something like a Raspberry Pi with Kodi and not even let the television do anything. Kodi gives us a lot more flexibility, even if we can't use most proprietary streaming services with it.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor
To be honest, if we were to have the choice again, we would have taken the damned thing back. As it is, if the 47 on the arcade rig dies, I'd be buying a television specifically for that, rather than attempting to move the 55 down, it's that bad. I have been tempted to see if I can find an open firmware to drop on it and see if that clears up the worst of the issues.
As a side note, my personal preference for internet streaming to television is to use something like a Raspberry Pi with Kodi and not even let the television do anything. Kodi gives us a lot more flexibility, even if we can't use most proprietary streaming services with it.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor