Are outdoor TVs worth it or can you use a regular TV?
Dedicated outdoor televisions cost an insanely high amount of money, but standard indoor TVs struggle with dim daylight visibility, heavy rain, and humidity that causes vertical lines. Moving a regular television inside and outside to protect it from the weather requires dragging a heavy setup over sliding door tracks every time, making it an exhausting hassle.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1rolling an indoor TV on a stand outside when hanging out
- 2using a basic cheap non-weather-rated flat screen under a covered area
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Outdoor rated tvs are insanely expensive”source ↗
“dragging that heavy setup over the sliding door track every time is getting super annoying.”source ↗
“that samsung screen is pretty dim in daylight, and the humid texas air is already causing weird vertical lines on the panel.”source ↗
“do those actually hold up against heavy rain and heat, or do i need to buy a dedicated outdoor tv?”source ↗
Where this came up
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