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What is the best dumb TV?
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Re: What is the best dumb TV?
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Another vote for JVC. My 58" was half the price of so-called smart TVs and looks great.
This one? https://jvctv.com.au/product/58-4k-uhd-led-tv/ No mention of "Android" or "Smart", but it does do DVR of some sort, so it's not 100% clear.
That's similar, but mine doesn't quite do 4k.
It can record to usb but I haven't tried it.
It's not Android* - just some lesser, and less intrusive feature.
* at least there is no evidence of Android.
Re: What is the best dumb TV?
#593Earlier quoted context omitted.
This one? https://jvctv.com.au/product/58-4k-uhd-led-tv/ No mention of "Android" or "Smart", but it does do DVR of some sort, so it's not 100% clear.
That's similar, but mine doesn't quite do 4k. It can record to usb but I haven't tried it. It's not Android* - just some lesser, and less intrusive feature. * at least there is no evidence of Android.
PS, mine was a display unit, during a shop shutdown sale.
So it cost me around $400 instead of $800 or so. And $800 is way less than similar but 'smart' TVs.
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Wow. So basic. That reminds me about dishwashers - you put powder or a tablet in a little hatch and I always wondered what happened behind the hatch, does it inject water, disolve the powder, and then pump it around to the jets? I recently realised. Nope. It just opens the hatch ten minutes into the cycle and the tablet/powder falls into the machine with a clunk.
And many of the door latches are/were heat sensitive strips of metal. When the temperature of the water inside the machine reaches a certain point, and after a period of heating up the metal door latch, the metal deforms and the door pops open. Then after the wash, everything cools down, and the metal reforms. There is just enough tension on the metal latch to make it latch closed and just enough deflection after hea…
I've only used jet dry when I got free samples and never noticed a difference. I never have spotty dishes. Maybe it depends on the water.
Re: What is the best dumb TV?
#595I don't have a TV, only a few monitors (it's very liberating, actually). So instead I'll talk about my microwave. Yes, unironically! :D It has two dials. OMG how do I survive with only two dials? How do I program it? Well, the answer is, unsurprisingly, that I don't program it. Instead I crank it to watever wattage I need (usually the top one), and the time I think it'll take until the food I becomes hot. Aaaand that…
We're going off topic now, but why do all microwaves have knobs now? I hate them. I want a number pad like the microwaves had when I was growing up. I want to close the door, press the numbers that indicate the amount of time I want and hit "start". When you turn a knob, either you have no indication of the exact time, or there's a display that moves in increments that the computer thinks are good (usually 10s). I do…
Where are you shopping? Only 5 of the first 50 microwaves that I just saw on Amazon have knobs.
Re: What is the best dumb TV?
#596Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly I have the opposite feedback for a Samsung TV. It’s a really nice aluminium remote, there are less than 8 buttons total, and yet I can use TV, Netflix and YouTube perfectly. My only gripe is that I can’t VPN with it to get US Netflix. Oh and the ads on the menu :(
Must be a higher-end thing, for whatever reason. Mine is literally the cheapest 43-inch 4K "HDR" model they sell (for a bit under 300€). I got a plastic remote with a fair amount of buttons that are much closer to standard a dumb TV remote (and rather suspiciously similar to LG's...). I also haven't found any ads in any menu, despite being connected to the Interned and logged into a Samsung account (by necessity).
Necessity? Why is that?
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#598Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Found the millennial? The knob design is the much older one as it's purely analog. Modern microwave knobs are not properly analog. They are so infuriating - an analog control fiddling with a discrete setting. As you turn the knob, it will occasionally (with no haptic feedback) tick over to the next discrete value.
but much better than the old analog knob. For less than a minute you couldnt even turn it (usually jumped back to the bell or was anything from 20s to 1min)
The microwave I grew up with (70s/80s) had a log-ish scale. The first quarter turn was 0-60s, the second quarter turn got you to 5 mins, etc. I don't remember the exact gradations but I remember it was very easy to get almost any time you wanted.
I have hated every microwave since.
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My microwave has a wheel to turn the timer, a wheel to set the WATT, a stop button and a start button. If you press the start button it’ll automatically run for 30 seconds, if you press it again it’ll add another 30 seconds to the current run. It took me maybe 4 years of owning it before I learned of the start button feature. Not sure what the hell people are doing with microwaves that connect to the internet, but I…
End the torture: What's the make/model of the microwave?
I bought a Breville with jogger knobs for power and time, just because I liked the UI. Most importantly they can be changed even while cooking.
I think this is the current revision: https://www.breville.com/us/en/products/microwaves/bmo850.ht...
It does have all the feature buttons, which are just inside the door, although I admit I have never used them.
Alternatively buy a really cheap microwave that just has two physical knobs.
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#600Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cheap ones, anyway. Expensive models sometimes have an inverter.
Several years back (and things may have changed) Panasonic had a patent on the inverter and was the only microwave that offered it. I purchased a Panasonic for that reason and love it. This from their website: The Panasonic Microwave Ovens powered with patented Inverter Technology™ deliver evenly cooked meals, from edges to center, every time.
My Panasonic bit the dust after about five years of use with a light show. I believe the magnetron shorted and burnt out the power supply. As I was microwaving water for tea, there was a bright white light on the inside of the microwave. Family also described a similar failure around the same time frame of ownership.
I enjoyed that microwave before that happened and was thoroughly impressed with the ice cream soften setting.