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Re: Sony Android TVs waste 25W in standby due to built-in Google Chromecast

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Post by wil421 »

pentae wrote: post #158
blinkingled wrote: post #18

I have a 2020 model I bought from Costco and as slow and shitty the UI is it also still burns 16W in standby. There isn't a way to disable Chromecast either so thanks for nothing Sony and Google. I need a dumb tv and Nvidia sheild. Edit: I take the standby power usage part back. After settings changes including Eco stuff and something to do with remote start and a restart it's at 4W which is very acceptable. The UI i…

Yeah my Sony tv from about that same year is the worst TV i've ever owned by far. Theres crazy bugs like when you leave a show or youtube paused it will just randomly start playing again after 10 minutes. The UI is very slow and unresponsive. If you smash the up/down volume too fast it disconnects from the soundbar. The remote is like something from the 1980s with 1000 buttons on it. By comparison my Samsung TV is an…

I have a 2019 model and have non of the issues you have. Except sometimes the soundbar doesn’t want to connect when I turn it on.

We use an Apple TV and non of the built in streaming apps or features. No complaints and I’ve never even connected it to the internet.

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Post by wil421 »

hybridtupel wrote: post #228

Whenever I read something like this I am wondering if there was still some TV without any of these „smart“ features. Just a screen and the receiver for television. Then I can connect an Apple TV, Xbox, PlayStation or whatever. Isn’t there a demand for that? I mean I don’t need another device which breaks or is unsafe to use after 2 years because it doesn’t get any more updates.

I have 2 Sony Android TVs and never connected them to the internet in 5+ years. I use it just as you described, the Apple TV drives everything. No updates in 5 years and not a single issue.

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Post by pentae »

wil421 wrote: post #231
pentae wrote: post #158

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Yeah my Sony tv from about that same year is the worst TV i've ever owned by far. Theres crazy bugs like when you leave a show or youtube paused it will just randomly start playing again after 10 minutes. The UI is very slow and unresponsive. If you smash the up/down volume too fast it disconnects from the soundbar. The remote is like something from the 1980s with 1000 buttons on it. By comparison my Samsung TV is an…

I have a 2019 model and have non of the issues you have. Except sometimes the soundbar doesn’t want to connect when I turn it on. We use an Apple TV and non of the built in streaming apps or features. No complaints and I’ve never even connected it to the internet.

Yeah this is what i've done, I ended up turning it into a dumb TV and hooked an Apple TV up to it to solve all the problems including the crappy remote. On my Samsung, I didn't have to do that as its more than good enough already.

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Post by zbrozek »

scarface74 wrote: post #219
zbrozek wrote: post #157

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Rasplex?

Rasplex is a Plex client not a server. Installing a Plex server involves these steps on a Raspberry https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-plex-media-player/ As opposed to just going to the Google Play store and installing it on the Shield a getting updates. Besides the Raspberry is going to struggle transcoding, the Shield supports hardware transcoding for Plex.

Apologies for the bad idea. I've grown used to people not properly differentiating between server and client use cases.

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Post by [deleted] »

sokoloff wrote: post #156
zbrozek wrote: post #76

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In the PG&E service territory in California, that base load will run you about $5500 annually. That's more than the property tax on my townhouse.

You guys are over $0.60/kWh?! That’s 3x what we’re paying in MA (known for “not cheap” electricity). That would make an EV much less attractive as well.

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Post by explaingarlic »

iso1631 wrote: post #180
explaingarlic wrote: post #95

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This would cost more than 50 EUR per year Try: €200 at current forecasts :/

Doesn't matter in the UK, there's no incentive to turn off the set to save yourself £20 a month, because the taxpayer will subsidise your excess electric use thanks to the latest idiotic socialist idea to simply get future generations to pay for today's excess use.

Bailouts are only socialist when they benefit the average person, seemingly :P

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Post by pier25 »

vladgur wrote: post #26
pier25 wrote: post #12

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Depending on what you do either get an Nvidia Shield or an AppleTV. I'd recommend the Shield for Plex or the AppleTV for streaming Netflix, etc.

AppleTV is fully capable of playing local content. You can either use Infuse player or sideload Kodi

Yeah but it doesn't have HDMI audio passthrough which is an absolute deal breaker IMO.

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Post by pier25 »

icelancer wrote: post #183
pier25 wrote: post #12

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Depending on what you do either get an Nvidia Shield or an AppleTV. I'd recommend the Shield for Plex or the AppleTV for streaming Netflix, etc.

Definitely don't get the Shield if you use the stream apps. Nvidia's support for them is awful and their forums provide no help.

Yeah...

Even basic stuff like framerate matching is still missing after all these years.

They added it in beta a couple of years ago as a manual setting from the quick settings menu, but it's super buggy. It has never worked properly for me. Either the video completely freezes or the audio gets completely out of sync.

And even if you manually set the framerate to 24Hz or 23.9 Hz, there are constant random frame drops.

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Post by illegalsmile »

paganel wrote: post #121
baq wrote: post #93

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There are plenty of reasons to not get one and they don't matter since for me no other TV technology even remotely makes sense due to picture quality being so vastly superior than anything except plasma.

> vastly superior than anything except plasma. One more reason for me to cherish my 2011 plasma TV. Also, it has none of that smart-tv non-sense, which is a big plus.

I sold my 2010 panny plasma two years ago and picked up a Sony OLED and wow, what a difference. Once you turn off all the BS image processing and dial in the settings to your liking it blows plasma out of the water with brighter images with HDR, lower power draw and higher resolution. You're not forced to use the smart-tv non-sense either, don't wire it into your network, don't connect it to your wi-fi and only use a third-party device like a shield or roku.

I'd say you're missing out at this point IF you consume media regularly, especially movies. Otherwise you probably don't mind much.

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Post by onetokeoverthe »

aequitas wrote: post #113
Someone wrote: post #3

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It also is illegal in the EU for new devices. https://ec.europa.eu/info/energy-climate-change-environment/... : “Network-connected standby devices Modern appliances are increasingly connected to the internet during standby mode, consuming higher amounts of energy. This includes networked televisions and decoders, printers, game consoles and modems. - Specific requirements for network-connected standby devices were in…

I have a Sony android tv and with almost every setting (eg. brightness, motion blurr processing, etc) I change I get a warning it might “increase power consumption”. So it might just be it is testen under the bare minimum functionality. But as soon as you enable any of the advertised features it exceeds that. For the record mine mostly has 1-2W standby consumption. With some spikes to 10 or 20W for a few seconds some…

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