{"id":273561,"date":"2026-01-31T10:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273561\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:43:11","slug":"ask-adrian-i-last-bought-a-tv-30-years-ago-what-do-i-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273561\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Adrian: I last bought a TV 30 years ago. What do I need to know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Our technology editor answers your trickiest tech questions\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The 43-inch Samsung U8000F is available for \u20ac329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ir Samsung telly.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The 43-inch Samsung U8000F is available for \u20ac329<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I have had a TV set for over 30 years, which is not a flat-screen model. It has finally given out and I am faced with the task of getting a new one. I\u2019m a little bewildered as I\u2019m not really that knowledgeable about technology. Do I need a smart TV or will my provider do that bit for me? If you have any recommendations for a model I could buy, one that\u2019s not too big, I\u2019d also be grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our technology editor answers your trickiest tech questions The 43-inch Samsung U8000F is available for \u20ac329 I have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8819,72,61,60,279],"class_list":["post-273561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-adrian-weckler","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}