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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Chris Burke

New issue of What Hi-Fi? out now: brilliant budget TVs, step-up stereo amplifiers, projector group test and more

January 2026 issue of What Hi-Fi? out now.

There has really never been a better time to invest in a television. Big screen or not, if you look at the price you will pay in the shops today, it will in all probability be considerably cheaper than what you would have paid for a smaller TV from 30 years ago. And that’s without taking inflation into account.

I bit the bullet, back in the late ’90s, on a 32in CRT Panasonic. I needed to get Ian from next door to help me lift it onto its stand (that was when a telly was a telly, I can tell you). And it cost me the best part of £1200.

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