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Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?
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#492I've designed and built many such TVs for the commercial/industrial vertical. I am currently working on developing such a TV for the consumer market and launching it under the name DUMBO.TV Let me know your thoughts. Reference pix of 70" industrial display using Samsung LCD panel and in-house LCD controller with physical OSD menu buttons along with IR/RS232 control capability: https://imgur.com/a/k6zrH3s
You're going to want to change that name... Disney... They have the class 9 Trade Mark for Dumbo, and call out: "television sets;"[1][2]. [1] https://search.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/search/view/115... [2] https://files.littlebird.com.au/Shared-Image-2023-04-08-06-5...
LighTV, the tv without the crap you don’t want!
Re: Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?
#493I've designed and built many such TVs for the commercial/industrial vertical. I am currently working on developing such a TV for the consumer market and launching it under the name DUMBO.TV Let me know your thoughts. Reference pix of 70" industrial display using Samsung LCD panel and in-house LCD controller with physical OSD menu buttons along with IR/RS232 control capability: https://imgur.com/a/k6zrH3s
I'm glad to see you are actually doing this. I always remember your post from a few years back about building Industrial monitors and talking about this idea out loud and me thinking: "Fuck yeah I'll buy one." That idea has always stuck with me.
All my TV's have computers hooked to them, mainly low power x86 systems and run Linux or 9front on them. Linux gets me a browser which makes into a useful internet toaster to watch hulu, browse and so on. Then I can open terminals and whatever while I'm on the couch or in bed. It's 1000x more useful than a smart TV or even a TV stick.
Is the rS232 protocol ASCII based?
Sizes I use at home range between 32 and 55 inches. And I both stand them on tables or wall mount.
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I see a lot of people buying the C2. Is this the undisputed winner for a new 4K television? I am vaguely in the TV market but am mildly intimidated by the variety.
>I see a lot of people buying the C2. Is this the undisputed winner for a new 4K television? https://www.inverse.com/tech/sony-2023-4k-smart-tv-picture-q... https://www.techradar.com/reviews/sony-a95l
I'd avoid anything using a QD-OLED panel for now until they've proven they've massively decreased their burn in issues.
Rtings is currently running a huge 2 year burn in test with 100 TVs [1], and have had major burn in issues on both their Sony and Samsung QD-OLEDs (while the LG WOLEDs don't have burn in issues, though their G2 had a column of pixels fail).
The LG G3 seems to compete with the QD-OLED panels in terms of colour and brightness this year with its MLA panel [2], but I'm not sure if it's worth the increased cost for most people compared to buying last year's C2.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my1lyUE7WVM [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEnChcCQ2Dc
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#495> because it’ll likely be missing several other salient features that you may actually want, like Bluetooth compatibility, HDR functionality, built-in channel scanning, or the ability to auto-label and optimize devices by HDMI input.”
I can't think of any of these that I care about.
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#497TCP/IP over HDMI exists and is in use. You cannot just "not connect your TV" because if you connect to ROKU which is connected to the Internet, your TV can access the internet. Source: I bought a TV a few years ago, and it somehow popped up an ad even though I didn't connect it to my WiFi. Did some research, and that's how I found out.
Why would Roku allow the TV to tunnel through it though? AFAIK they see smart TVs as their direct competition.
Beats me. But that is a great question.
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#498"just don't connect it to the internet" is such a typical HN response that completely misses the point. A smart TV with no internet connection is still a smart TV. It still has an entire operating system that needs to load wifi, ethernet, Bluetooth, usb driver stacks. It still has an awful, flashy interface that adds unnecessary steps between changing inputs. It still tries to load god knows what apps every time you…
As someone who shares your concerns, as well as the privacy concerns, I got a projector a few years back and never looked back.
I'm not one to care too much about picture quality and all that so my $300 projector is the perfect device for me: - Turns on pretty quick just has to warm up - Fully dumb, no internet connection or crappy web UI - Giant screen for me to see from anywhere comfortably seated in the room - I just hook up my computer with HDMI for steaming, nice speaker hooked up with 3.5 mm audio
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I’d tend to assume that any data collected would be uploaded opportunistically whenever an internet connection was available.
What data could a smart tv collect on you if you're treating it like a dumb tv? Assuming it lives its life disconnected from the internet with an Apple TV/Roku/Chromecast connected to it. Would it have any data on you other than, maybe, when the tv has been turned on?
I mean, Forbes, so take it with a grain of salt, but
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/02/08/shocking...
> Once every second, software in the Vizio TVs would read pixel data from a segment of the screen. This was sent home and compared against a database of film, television and advertising content to determine what was being watched.
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> make it smart via an Apple TV I repurpose the old laptops that I seem to accumulate for this. Just about anything made in the last 10 years can handle at least 1080p video, and will have an HDMI output. I add a small wireless keyboard and use my regular desktop environment. But you can add a remote and use one of the open source media centre suites. I do wish more TVs had a monitor-like sleep mode and accepted the…
We do the same and it works well. We prefer a handheld keyboard/mouse to control it. We've tried several and the Lenovo N5902 [1] is our favorite by far. It's also useful to have the Unified Remote server [2] running on the media computer so you can control it from your phone when you need to. [1] https://www.newegg.com/p/09N-00A7-00001 [2] https://www.unifiedremote.com/
I've been using these for close to a decade now. We have two. They're so good, but very hard to find now. When the time comes, I'll scavenge parts from both to keep one going.