The official bi-annual sales start at 09:00 today.
We've written about the soldes before, when we were looking for a kitchen mixer, and once when we were looking for an oven. Both times we ended up making purchases not connected to the soldes, because other stuff happened that nade so-called official bargains irrelevant.
Our current TV. When I took the pic I was watching a program about Leonardo, and the image is Clos Lucé.
This year, for the first time in over 10 years, I'm paying attention to the soldes. Our television is over 13 years old, and although there's nothing wrong with it once it's working, it takes about 5 minutes after turning it on before any picture arrives. I think it's a problem with the power supply, but the only way to find out will invariably cost more than a new TV. Sooner or later it won't run at all.
My dilemma is that to get French TV I will need to get a smart TV, and I don't particularly want one of them. We don't have any subscriptions and don't intend buying any, I don't talk to electronics, and I don't sufficiently trust the purveyors of such stuff. We could get our satellite system changed, but that would mean we lose our UK satellite. I could maybe get some sort of stick or WiFi box for a dumb TV, but I'm not sure I can be bothered. You might think I could use the mini PC to watch French TV online, but it's a Windows 7 machine and neither of the official French TV sites will work.
Whichever way we go it will be a bigger TV than the one we have now. These days it's almost impossible to buy a TV as small as our current one.
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