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[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago

Expensive large screen displays are better.

Smart TVs are privacy invasive billboards that let you watch some TV on their terms.

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

They’re a little bit better if you just never connect them to the internet.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This just doesn’t seem to click for a lot of people for some reason that I cannot explain whatsoever. I don’t even have mine connected to electricity when I’m not using it.

[-] SamboT@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mine gets put in the garage when its not being used. Microphones to record you can work on battery power inside the tv

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I keep mine chained up in the basement when not in use.

[-] leisesprecher@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Even then you still have a bunch of cheap hardware crammed into an insufficiently ventilated box that will lead to problems down the line.

My TV is 15 years old, not very smart, thick as oatmeal, but works like a charm.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

you don't have to use the smart bulllshit.

[-] leisesprecher@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

It's still there, though.

And since it's usually one integrated board, a failure in the "bullshit" will likely affect the not-shit.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

that's just pure speculation. if they design the boards to cool properly during the warranty period there's no reason to think they'll have major issues after that.

[-] leisesprecher@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago

Read that statement again and ask yourself, if it really makes sense .

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

unnecessary disrespectful bullshit.

[-] leisesprecher@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago

It's the maximum amount of respect you can't expect for posting nonsense.

Why on earth do you think something keeps working just because it survived the warranty period? That doesn't make any sense.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

fuck all the way off asshole.

[-] leisesprecher@feddit.org -1 points 1 week ago

Does that attitude work for you? In general, I mean. Doesn't seem very effective.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

disengaging from assholes, absolutely it does. enjoy your imaginary internet points from other assholes.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Exactly what I did. I'd get a 65" monitor if there was any. But an always offline smart TV will do.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

if you can't tell the difference between a nice OLED and an average LCD then you need your eyeballs checked.

[-] MichaelScotch@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It’s not just about oled vs lcd. There’s a huge difference between backlight arrays in cheap lcds vs expensive lcds. And there’s still benefits to choosing lcd over oled. Either way, some people just don’t care about image quality. I have a friend that claims he still can’t tell the difference between dvd and Blu-ray, or 4k Blu-ray.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

sure, it was just an extreme example. the point is the article is nonsense.

[-] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

I bought a Roku smart TV 65in like 5 years ago. Light as a feather and never gave me a minutes trouble. Think I paid like $300 for it.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I’m in the same boat, bought a Samsung 40-something-inch smart tv for around $300 maybe 6 years ago off the neglected “small TV” aisle. It has some bloatware, but it’s never been an issue after configuring a few settings. I’m guessing if I went for one of the floor models, it’d have been a problem.

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

The more expensive it is, the more ads and spyware it will have.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 20 points 1 week ago

What? Cheap TVs are full of this stuff which is partially why they're so cheap.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

They all have it.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

I'm still rocking a 2011 38" vizio from Costco. Does everything I need, nice and dumb, as a TV should be. A bigger and higher def TV won't bring me more happiness, so I'll be sticking with it until it quits and I can't fix it.

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