Need a Screen Protector for a 77 Inch OLED

andyarlo on 06/04/2024 - 13:10
Last edited 06/04/2024 - 15:05 by 1 other user

Hi everyone, just got a 77 inch S95C from a deal on Samsung EDU store. Sweet deal and TV. Wall mounted with speaker. Very Happy with it.

My 11 month old Son has taken to climbing up on the entertainment unit and smacking the screen with his hands. Starting to get light scratches on it which is fine, you don’t notice when it’s on BUT if he grabs a toy or something and gives it a whirl, I am going to lose it.

Just got thinking, a screen protector might work. Found a few that are quite expensive that fit. Might investigate some Perspex solutions too.

Couple of questions if anyone knows.

  1. Would a screen protector heat up the panel a bit and wear out the TV any faster?
  2. Does anyone have a protector they could recommend ?

Thanks team

Arlo

Electrical & Electronics Samsung

Comments

  • MS Paint on 06/04/2024 - 13:50
    +75

    My 11 month old Son has taken to climbing up on the entertainment unit and smacking the screen with his hands.

    Probably easier, cheaper and make TV viewing nicer, to place an opened up play pen around the entertainment unit to prevent access. Stop the problem rather than minimising the damage caused by the problem.

    • andyarlo on 06/04/2024 - 21:37
      +2

      Thanks, we have tried that but we’re in a smallish 2 bedroom house. So it takes up a fair bit of room doing that.

      • JIMB0 on 07/04/2024 - 08:13
        +42

        Downsize the tv and upsize the house.

        • jsparky77 on 08/04/2024 - 12:11
          +15

          Sold the $5k TV and upsized to a larger house, now have an additional 5cm^2 of floor space. Now what?

        • iammarlin on 10/04/2024 - 20:34

          Yeah, I also tell homeless people on the street to just buy a house and stop being homeless.

    • reactor-au on 07/04/2024 - 08:06
      +11

      Or wall mount the TV at the correct height above the entertainment unit.

      I remember the day when one of my nephews took a wooden toy hammer to the 60" plasma TV at my parent's house, it looked like an overpriced 60" canvas at a modern art studio.

      • ankor on 07/04/2024 - 11:20

        I hope things worked out in the end?

      • daleroy1234 on 07/04/2024 - 12:16
        +8

        Correct height would be well within reach of a 1 year old. You don't want it massively above eye height when sitting down watching it. Most people put their TVs way too high up on the wall

        • reactor-au on 07/04/2024 - 12:59
          -1

          But they would have to climb up onto the entertainment unit. Or do you sit on the floor?

          • AlanHB on 07/04/2024 - 13:35
            +5

            @reactor-au: The tv is meant to be flat in your eyesight dude, which isn't very high when you are sitting down. Unless of course you watch tv standing up or have an exceptionally long upper body.

    • HeWhoKnows on 07/04/2024 - 17:49
      +4

      Or barbed wire

      • nobro25 on 09/04/2024 - 10:25

        Install a post wire and fence 1m o/s around your tv.

      • donman92 on 09/04/2024 - 14:51

        electric too

    • trapper on 08/04/2024 - 09:14

      Yeah this is a far better option. Move anything you can out of toddler range and fence the rest off.

  • AustriaBargain on 06/04/2024 - 13:52
    +41

    Put son in one of those cage things when no one is watching him. Or put your tv around a cage thing. A 77 inch screen protector is a ridiculous solution to this problem. And if he's bashing an object against the TV I doubt it'll help much anyway.

    You can't spank kids anymore I suppose, but he's 11 months old, you can surely make him not want to touch the TV without physically or emotionally abusing him. I make the PSH PSH noise when cat starts touching the TV and he's learned not to do it anymore.

    • sumyungguy on 06/04/2024 - 16:33
      +3

      Yet I didn't realise this is an actual thing, 75-inch screen protector for $224

      • [Deactivated] on 07/04/2024 - 09:57
        +19

        Imagine the air bubbles on that application.

        • sumyungguy on 07/04/2024 - 13:01
          +3

          I'm wondering how they ship it…

        • dogzilla on 08/04/2024 - 22:01
          +2

          is the plastic squeegee to scale like and iphone, would be the size of a ice hockey stick

    • Kongzi on 06/04/2024 - 17:13
      +16

      What's wrong with spanking?

      • Morien on 06/04/2024 - 21:09
        +26

        Until a child is able to reason and see cause and effect, spanking does nothing but to frighten.

        Once a child is able to reason and see cause and effect, spanking ceases to be the only option.

          • MS Paint on 07/04/2024 - 00:20
            +27

            @andyarlo: You've posted on a public forum on the internet. You are going to get varied replies from legit to comical to insulting. The golden rule is to ignore the replies that you don't like - not lay insults at them because it wasn't the reply you were after.

          • CurlCurl on 07/04/2024 - 09:37
            +3

            @andyarlo:

            Thanks - have been getting a lot of parenting advice from people on this thread that obviously have never raised a child.

            obviously?

        • Rally Dave on 07/04/2024 - 08:31
          +6

          That has proven to be wrong many times. Even infants have shown to be able to adapt to cause and effect, showing that if they do something that has a bad response, they instinctively learn from it. This then proves that a sharp tap across the hands (not to hurt but just to scare), gets then to learn. Some are shown to be slower at learning than others- unbelievably, not all our kids are geniuses- but they get there. It is also part of resilience building. There are plenty of articles in journals that have shown this.

          • Lululuke on 07/04/2024 - 10:03
            +5

            @Rally Dave: “Proved to be wrong many times”
            -great line, zero evidence provided because there is none.

          • Morien on 07/04/2024 - 13:54

            @Rally Dave: Could you please link me to a few sources? I'm interested to learn.

        • Morien on 07/04/2024 - 13:56

          Thanks for providing that

        • WhyAmICommenting on 09/04/2024 - 13:36
          +4

          Tldr; (of the summary lol)

          Thirteen of 17 mean effect sizes were significantly different from zero and all indicated a link between spanking and increased risk for detrimental child outcomes.

    • andyarlo on 06/04/2024 - 21:38
      -3

      we do that but we can’t be in the room every second of the day. That’s when he will make his move!

      • AustriaBargain on 06/04/2024 - 22:07

        Put him in another room when you want to leave him alone.

      • Jono05 on 07/04/2024 - 22:58
        +1

        So you leave a 11 month old in a room alone? Great parenting.

        • Pufff on 08/04/2024 - 10:10

          Can't believe people negged you. This is so true kids are stupid at 11 months you can't let them be alone especially when they're free to roam.

          • kaleidoscope on 08/04/2024 - 10:25

            @Pufff: You can't keep an eye on them every single second and it's not practical, you can be with them in the living room and you just hop into the kitchen to warm up a meal or do something for a minute or go to the toilet and that very moment is when the little rascal gets into trouble.

            This is where keeping the environment safe around them is more important than being around them 24/7.

            So you leave a 11 month old in a room alone? Great parenting.

            Easier said than done.

            • Pufff on 08/04/2024 - 12:56
              +1

              @kaleidoscope: I wouldn't say you need to watch them every second but at a minimum same room and/or in a contained area which doesn't seem like what op is doing.

          • skillet on 17/05/2024 - 13:38

            @Pufff: They are not stupid they are curious and always learning.

  • FoxJump on 06/04/2024 - 14:05
    +15

    you gotta teach your son to respect the tv
    education beats restrictors any day

    • kaleidoscope on 08/04/2024 - 10:26
      +1

      Doesn't work with 11 month old.

      • FoxJump on 08/04/2024 - 10:42
        +4

        I had twins.
        Worked fine for me. Theyre 4.5 yo now. TV not scratched. Tv not broken. Tv not smashed.

        • kaleidoscope on 08/04/2024 - 10:46
          +5

          Sorry to break this to you, not every kid is the same or you can expect to behave similar to some other kid, just because… We all have bad days and same goes for kids. While educating can help to a some extent, mistakes do happen. Specially when they go to childcare facilities and interact with other kids, they will pick up nasty things that they would experiment when they're at home :)

      • cooni on 08/04/2024 - 19:27

        Worked on my kids.

      • paloverde88 on 09/04/2024 - 11:53
        +1

        it even works for cats not to scratch furniture so humans should be easier to teach

  • AndyC1 on 06/04/2024 - 14:17
    +7

    Sounds like you need to get an electric cattle fence and put up in front of the entertainment center. Okay real answer is that there is no screen protector for TV's. You can make one by buying some clear perspective and building a surround around the TV and screw the perspex to the surround, but you will get distortion and it will look like crap.

    Better to try and stop your kid from climbing onto the entertainment centre some how or move it or mount the TV higher until the kid gets older.

    • andyarlo on 06/04/2024 - 21:40

      Real answer is they exist.

      https://www.photodon.com/p/screen-protector-lg-oled77z19.htm…

      • eug on 08/04/2024 - 16:29
        +2

        If you're worried about your kid hitting the screen with a toy as you say, a 0.25mm-thick plastic film isn't going to protect it. You're going to need something like a perspex or plexi panel in front of the screen with a gap to absorb the impact and not transmit it straight into the glass screen. If you use a thicker panel you could probably place it right up against the screen.

        …unless you're just talking about soft toys.

      • rumblytangara on 08/04/2024 - 21:00

        PT Barnum had something to say that is relevant about such products.

  • eccaz on 06/04/2024 - 15:04
    +36

    Be a better parent and impose some boundaries.

      • Jono05 on 07/04/2024 - 23:00
        +26

        Obviously you don’t know how to raise an 11 month old either.

      • rumblytangara on 08/04/2024 - 16:59
        +1

        Parent here. Know loads of other parents. Don't know of a single parent who couldn't teach their kids not to deliberately bash expensive TV screens.

        I could understand if the kid had diagnosed behavioural issues, but not for your run of the mill toddler.

        • donman92 on 09/04/2024 - 14:55
          +5

          skill issue

    • solidussnake on 13/04/2024 - 07:40

      I have a 77C1 and a 20 month boy we nipped the climbing in the but and hes not interested in it at all anymore, much prefers to push all the buttons on the remote.

  • CurlCurl on 06/04/2024 - 16:12
    +41

    Only 12 years till your kid is on the street terrorising people, breaking into houses and stealing cars. Show your child some discipline.

      • eccaz on 07/04/2024 - 01:13
        +1

        You sound like you must be rich!

        • Jono05 on 07/04/2024 - 23:02
          +5

          Lots of dollars but not enough cents.

      • CurlCurl on 07/04/2024 - 07:01
        +14

        We don’t live where that stuff happens

        You live in Sydney, so that answer is nonsensical.

        Didn’t ask for parenting advice either.

        Maybe you should have

        Stick to your Op shop recommendations.

        Piss weak response. BTW I will.

        I didn't neg you.

          • CurlCurl on 07/04/2024 - 09:34
            +5

            @andyarlo:

            You implied I was going to raise a criminal by the age of 12 and that I lacked discipline in my parenting.

            Lets wait 12 years and see hey.

            FYI. We could take our girls anywhere and they would behave. Why? Because they knew right from wrong.

            • Typical16-bitEnjoyer on 07/04/2024 - 19:28
              +4

              @CurlCurl: OP in 10 years "my kid is on the street terrorising people, breaking into houses and stealing cars. Instead of addressing the problem, can anyone suggest a solution to make everything 'unstealable'?"

          • eccaz on 07/04/2024 - 23:32

            @andyarlo: Because you sound like a bad parent and that seems entirely possible

          • eccaz on 11/04/2024 - 20:34

            @andyarlo: In court they call it the truth defense

    • Lululuke on 07/04/2024 - 10:05
      +1

      Can I borrow your crystal ball? Really seems to be quite effective at seeing into the future. I dream of having the over-confidence, I mean confidence that you do.

      • CurlCurl on 07/04/2024 - 10:12
        -1

        Can I borrow your crystal ball?

        Nah. My crystal ball is a one off, and has proved to be 100% accurate.

        I won't tell you what it says is coming to you, as I don't want to ruin the rest of your life.

  • 7ekn00 on 06/04/2024 - 16:23
    +30

    Much easier to just teach the kid … God forbid a little discipline now days :/

      • 7ekn00 on 06/04/2024 - 22:10
        +34

        Haha, three kids, never had an item damaged - so experience and track record

        But that's OK, todays snowflake parents have no clue on disciplining their children and leave it to poor teachers and anybody else but themselves …

        • sheebies on 07/04/2024 - 10:47
          -8

          Snowflake parents?

          Okay so I suggested that my 10 year old son be given boundaries and consequences at his mainstream school and the school reported me to CPS for abusing my children.

          Quite frankly you're not allowed to discipline your child anymore.

          • us3rnam3tak3n on 08/04/2024 - 13:55
            +1

            @sheebies:

            I suggested that my 10 year old son be given boundaries and consequences at his mainstream school and the school reported me to CPS for abusing my children

            I suspect you're leaving out some important information here

          • eccaz on 11/04/2024 - 20:37

            @sheebies: On todays list of things that didn’t happen

            • sheebies on 12/04/2024 - 11:07

              @eccaz: Lol you don't have to believe me, but it absolutely happened.
              As I live in Victoria when they called me they identified themselves as "Child Protective Services"
              They told me that I was reported because "I didn't understand my child."
              They closed the investigation pretty much immediately because "They don't deal with those kind of issues."

              I still was put in contact with a group that deals with "At risk parents and children." They ended up doing their own investigation which involved them calling me for a 2 hour chat about my family dynamic, then came to my house.. they also closed their investigation pretty quickly because our kids weren't identified as being at risk.

              So in the end nothing happened really, but it was still a huge shock to be reported.
              Obviously I can't prove it was the school because they don't reveal who made the report but the school had made similar comments in the past. We'd also recently moved so we didn't know anyone else in the area.

              It ends up feeling like you're not allowed to parent your child. You get 3-4 years with your child and then once the schools get them, you just get cut out and you have to agree with the school or face the consequences.

        • Analytical Therapist on 07/04/2024 - 11:36
          +8

          I can 100% confirm this, I have a friend who is a 1st and 2nd grade teacher. Parents will blame ANYONE but themselves for their childs poor behaviour. My friend has been physically assaulted by young children and the first question the parents ask is "What did you do to my child to make them do that?"

          • Typical16-bitEnjoyer on 07/04/2024 - 19:31
            +1

            @Analytical Therapist: Seconded. Can also confirm this. 4 family members are teachers.

            sheebies "boundaries and consequences" was probably "School ain't doing jack, so I'm going to deadbolt the child's room and implement the 1m wooden ruler"

            • sheebies on 08/04/2024 - 04:32
              -2

              @Typical16-bitEnjoyer: Boundaries and consequences was “if my child won’t do his work keep him in at recess or lunch, or don’t let him go to the optional lego group that he enjoys of a Wednesday afternoon.

              If he is rude or disrespectful, tell us, because as his parents we can impose our own discipline.. like no technology when he gets home until his school work is done etc.”

              I got told “school is school and home is home and the two should be separate.”

              Now I’m not saying it’s the case all the time, my mums a teacher and the stories she comes home with are horrific.. but sometimes, it literally feels like you’re not allowed to discipline your children. Anything negative is not allowed because it will somehow scar or damage them for life. It’s ridiculous.

        • ripesashimi on 08/04/2024 - 15:59
          -1

          AVO is a real threat. You only talk big because you haven't been arrested yet.

          Snowflake parents are the ones who still have the right to approach their children. The rest get arrested as soon as they come in within 50m.

  • CheapandUsed on 06/04/2024 - 17:20
    +3

    We have the toddler proof fence
    In front of the TV unit which helps keep them far enough away from the TV they can't reach. Doesn't protect from stray objects though.

    Some of the parents groups have used a large piece of clear perspex in front of the TV for the particularly boisterous toddlers

    • andyarlo on 06/04/2024 - 21:45
      -8

      Thanks , that’s the advice i was after. Might have to go some Perspex bespoke setup.

      Room is too small to put up a fence unfortunately.

      • John Kimble on 06/04/2024 - 23:20
        +10

        How can you sit far enough from a 77 inch TV if your room is too small?

        Recommended viewing distance is 3.12m

        And how does his hand scratch the screen? I know they have razor sharp nails at that age, but that's crazy!

        • Typical16-bitEnjoyer on 07/04/2024 - 19:32
          +2

          I think OP is related to that recent person posting about making a closet sized bedroom into a home theatre.

        • eccaz on 11/04/2024 - 20:38

          Ps. His kid is inspector gadget

  • 87percent on 06/04/2024 - 18:08
    +3

    I couldn’t imagine how hard it would be to install a screen protector on a 77” TV without bubbles

  • yellowfever on 06/04/2024 - 19:38

    How much did you buy S95C for?

    • andyarlo on 06/04/2024 - 21:46
      -1

      $4200 ish. A good deal.

      • allegiance86 on 07/04/2024 - 13:01

        Bloody good deal for a 77"

      • yellowfever on 07/04/2024 - 20:13

        nice? how you get that? was it on OZB?

        • eccaz on 07/04/2024 - 23:33

          Probably doesn’t exist.

          • andyarlo on 13/04/2024 - 07:04

            @eccaz: Don't have the direct link. I have a screenshot of the deal.I can copy the contents. But it was at the same time of this one.

            https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/829955

            I actually tried for the 65 but it sold out. Kinda glad I got the 77.

            Order Date: 27/01/2024

            1 X 77" S95C OLED 4K Smart TV $4,179.48
            QA77S95CAWXXY
            Arrives on 05/02/2024

            1 X HW-Q800C Q-Series Soundbar $564.44
            HW-Q800C/XY
            Arrives on 05/02/2024

            Delivery Only (Drop Off Service)
            - Monday 05 February 2024 Free

      • lgacb08 on 10/04/2024 - 12:44

        Nah, Samsung oled is trashed, they are Sony betamax now

  • TEER3X on 06/04/2024 - 19:42
    +15

    Does anyone have a protector they could recommend

    A wife that does her job?

    • mapax on 06/04/2024 - 19:46
      +2

      A wife that does her job?

      Lol. I was about to congratulate you on no negs yet but I was too slow.

    • try2bhelpful on 06/04/2024 - 21:10

      So you are single then?

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