Insignia Smart TV

So so happy I bought this TV. Wed been using an older Vizio, (I mean old,like 2010) that was horrible, so it'd probably not taken much to impress me. But I've had friends come over and see this new tv and were impressed saying it has better quality picture and sound than they're 500$ TVs they have. I have my mini pc connected to the back of it, got one of those little top tv shelves and it sits perfectly right on top of the tv. The tv itself, without my pc connected, doesn't hold many downloaded apps so you have to be selective which are nesseary. I like being able to switch around from my pc to just the TV, and have my Bluetooth keyboard and mouse connected for that, easy set up. Same with the wireless gaming controllers all have linked up with TV as well. Oh and I recently learned it will mirror my older kids 7 Kindle fire 9th generation, which was crazy, cuz I've researched for ever trying to figure out how to display the screen on a tv and I've always seen that it doesn't have that ability, but nope, it does with this fire TV. So that means we can play Minecraft even on the fire tv, with the wireless controller too,so cool. Now figuring all this out took me awhile to learn and tinkering around with controllers and settings, but I'm certainly no tech savvy Mama here, so I'm sure other people can figure it out too. There's just lots of little extra features when you dig around into the settings, and download app available Was also able to find a night mode with the blue light blocking in the evenings. There's a whole area of kids games too that you can play with just the remote, pretty cool, not like big graphics type games but its got the fruit ninja game which is my son and I's favorite, we're able to play the two player after figuring out my wireless controler, but just using the fire tv remote works surprisingly well. Alexa works with this TV too,huge plus for turning it on and off, the we loose the tiny little remote every other minute. For the price, not going to find anything much better for 100$. Looks though that they've up'd the price since I bought it about 2 months ago. The multiple HDMI and multiple USB connections are so helpful, and having an earthnet connection makes it meet all my needs and wants. Edit update now july 2022, controller went out totally retarded, brand new batteries doesnt hwlp, tv shuts off randomly, or resets or doesn't turn on at all, I'll have to unplug it and plug in over and over till it will work again, bummed out this kind of went crappy on us this soon

We wanted add a TV to our bedroom cheaply and without adding another cable box. I did some research and for 99 dollars (24") this was the right price and size. I was a little worried the 720p was going to be an issue picture wise , but the picture is actually really good. I did buy a different stand, which looks like a PC monitor stand that swivels because the stand it comes with would not sit right where we wanted to install it, for another 20 bucks, but I can use that again should I upgrade the TV down the line. I liked the idea of Prime TV being pre-installed, but now I am second guessing that thought. At the same time that I bought this set, my other fire stick installed on my family room tv was coming up with a "memory full" message. keep in mind I had just ordered this TV and this was now happening, so after some research I realized this happens to a lot of people and is not really easy to overcome. So having a TV with firestick software built in is making me nervous vs just getting a smart TV and adding a 30 dollar firestick. Just something for you to consider. Last note on this topic is that you can add extra storage via a thumb drive. which will help the issue. Now on to the TV. it was super easy to set up. synced with my amazon account, and works great. I added a cheap High Def over the air antennae for 12 bucks and I am now getting another 50 channels. A few locals like 4,5 9,and a few that I don't get on cable like Laff and Decades. I would get more had the room been in the front of the house. But what struck me was that after you sync the antenna, the TV will now display the local program guide on screen and previews the channel as well on the menu. I was really impressed with that. Long story short, it's worth the 99 bucks, Once I sort out the additional storage and side load my local cable providers app it will be like having my full cable set up on a third TV.

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This TV is amazing for the price. Applied Chase Rewards and got it for $90, shipped. I think it's a rebrand of the Toshiba because it has identical physical I/O and construction. Multiple HDMI, Digital and Analog I/O that many of the "smart" TVs I've seen don't have. Don't know if the software is different from the Toshiba. When first powering on this "TV" it took about a 1/2 hour to upload and update it's software once it connected with my WiFi. Once that was done it works very well. Just hoping it doesn't do this every time it starts up, and I hope there's a way to disable this automatic update. This is for my travel trailer with a Winegard powered antenna, an excellent match. This TV actually finds more stations than a stand-alone over the air tuner I tried. The speakers are surprisingly load and have good range so I may not attach this to the trailer's audio system. But the TV has Spotify and so many other services available that I may use it in place of the poor quality audio system that came with the trailer. The TV was shipped in the original Insignia box which was damaged over the LCD, but the LCD appears to be fine. How shippers can throw these things around when they know they're fragile is beyond me. Just lazy I guess. Says something about the quality of Insignia packaging! Alexa is built in, but I have no interest in that, so haven't used it. Honestly this is a 4.5 star rating because nothing's perfect.