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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Televisions are one if the few things that have gotten cheaper and better these last 20 years. Treat yourself and upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Except they turned into trash boxes in the last couple of years. Everything is a smart TV with ad potential and functionality that will eventually be unsupported. I’m holding onto my dumb TVs as long as I can.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Yup. Those cheap TV's are being subsidized by advertisements that are built right in. If you don't need the smart functionality, skip connecting it to the Internet. (If you can. Looking at you Roku TV's!)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

look up "commercial displays" or "commercial tvs" when the time comes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

“Monitor” is another. Not just for PC monitors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

We’ve got a pair of LG C1 OLEDs in the house, and the best thing we did was remove any network access whatsoever. Everything is now handled through Apple TVs (for AirPlay, Handoff etc.), but literally any decent media device or console would be an upgrade on what manufacturers bundle in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

well you can just not connect it to the internet and still have some extra features.
also if it's an android tv, it's probably fine (unless you have one with the new google tv dashboard)
these usually don't come with ads or anything except regular google android tracking, and you can just unpin google play movies or whatnot.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

But be careful of the "smart" ones. If you have a "dumb" one that is working fine, keep it. I changed mine last year and I don't like the new "smart" one. IDGAF about Netflix and Amazon Prime buttons or apps. And now I'm stuck with a TV that boots. All I want is to use the HDMI input but the TV has to be "on" all the times because it runs android. So if I unplug the TV, it has to boot an entire operating system before it can show you the HDMI input.

I don't use any "smart" feature and I would very much have preferred to buy a "dumb" TV but "smart" ones are actually cheaper now.

Same for my parents. They use OTA with an antenna and their new smart TV has to boot into the tuner mode instead of just... showing TV. Being boomers they are confused as to why a TV boots into a menu where they have to select TV again to use it.

New TVs may be cheap, but it's because of the "smart" "spying" function, and they are so annoying. I really don't like them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Yeah the bootup kills me. I got lucky that my current tv doesn't do it. But man the last one I had took forever to turn on. It's stupid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Can't speak for your TV, but mine takes all of 16 seconds to boot up into the HDMI input from the moment I plug it in, and there's a setting to change the default input when it powers on. I use two HDMI ports so I have it default to the last input, but I have the option to tell it to default to the home screen, a particular HDMI port, the AV ports, or antenna

Not a fan of the remote though. I don't have any of these streaming services, and more importantly I'll be dead and gone before I let this screen connect to the Internet

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why give up a perfectly usable TV?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why get a new pair of glasses when your prescription increases? My old glasses are still perfectly usable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because your old glasses aren't perfectly usable.... Not the best example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Never needed glasses, huh.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I've been in stores which have demonstration 8K TVs.

Very impressive.

I'm still fine with my 720p and 1080p TVs. I've never once felt like I've missed out on something I was watching which I wouldn't have if the resolution was higher and that's really all I care about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I think the impressive is likely more to do with other facets than the resolution. Without putting your face up to the glass, you won't be able to discern a difference, the human visual acuity limits just don't get that high at a normal distance of a couple of meters or more.

I'd rather have a 1080P plasma than most cheap 4K LCDs. The demonstrators are likely OLED which mean supremely granular conrol of both color and brightness, like plasma used to be. Even nice LCDs have granular backlighting, sometimes with something like a 1920x1080 array of backlight to be close enough to OLED in terms of brightness control.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I have a 4k tv with backlighting that matches the screen. When I take magic mushrooms and watch it I can see god