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Samsung Busted for Cheating TV Test Benchmarks
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've recently chosen my first and only TV in the light of their reviews, and I'm happy and content for getting what I've read so far. Their "continuous reviews" are great. OTOH, TV market has evolved to something bizarre since I stopped watching TV. Now, every big player is rolling out an armada of TVs from low end to high end, and fanboys of these brands fight relentlessly about every itty bitty detail in forums, fa…
People seem to be very passionate about tv Brand’s. I like to look at TVs when I go to the store and personally just looking at them side by side for me visually I would tend to want to pick between LG or Panasonic. But my friend prefers Samsung but it always looks tooooo vibrant to me.
I just want one without any smart features or preprocessing. Signal in via hdmi, rca, or radio waves. Attempt to reproduce exactly the image the signal describes out with no frames waiting in a buffer or other added latency.
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#13Not surprised Samsung doing it. They consistently over promise and under deliver. I remember when buying their SSDs they promised support for HW encryption in future firmware update (Opal2/eDrive if I remember correctly) but they never actually delivered it. Since then I don’t trust anything Samsung promises or says.
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#14This sounds very similar to how various car manufacturers rigged their products to be benchmark aware. It did NOT turn out well for their shareholders.
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#15I would only be surprised if the other manufacturers are NOT doing the same. We (collectively speaking) do the same at work. We optimize for what gets us promoted rather than what benefits the company. Companies optimize for revenue rather than a good user experience. This behavior of trying to game/cheat the benchmarks is entirely consistent with human behavior in other areas of life.
One of the best parts of being happy at a "terminal level" in FAANG is that I can easily pick what I work on for best impact on the teams around me (and the engineering org as a whole) without worrying about chasing a promotion. I know the levers I can pull to get a higher perf rating here and there, but I'm also free to focus on the "papercuts" knowing that I'm not sacrificing future promotions, because I just don't care about adding more responsibilities to my plate. I can do "the right thing" for my coworkers, and all I have to do is make a case for improving developer sentiment or efficiency to justify the work.
Re: Samsung Busted for Cheating TV Test Benchmarks
#16I would only be surprised if the other manufacturers are NOT doing the same. We (collectively speaking) do the same at work. We optimize for what gets us promoted rather than what benefits the company. Companies optimize for revenue rather than a good user experience. This behavior of trying to game/cheat the benchmarks is entirely consistent with human behavior in other areas of life.
One of the best parts of being happy at a "terminal level" in FAANG is that I can easily pick what I work on for best impact on the teams around me (and the engineering org as a whole) without worrying about chasing a promotion. I know the levers I can pull to get a higher perf rating here and there, but I'm also free to focus on the "papercuts" knowing that I'm not sacrificing future promotions, because I just don't…
No you can't. Source: I, too, was at a terminal level at a FAANG.
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#17This sounds very similar to how various car manufacturers rigged their products to be benchmark aware. It did NOT turn out well for their shareholders.
Except this can't harm a single person, while Dieselgate's impact was estimated at dozens and dozens of people killed and hundreds injured.
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#18The whole concept of benchmarking a TV set sounds like something from a dystopian science fiction milieu.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
People seem to be very passionate about tv Brand’s. I like to look at TVs when I go to the store and personally just looking at them side by side for me visually I would tend to want to pick between LG or Panasonic. But my friend prefers Samsung but it always looks tooooo vibrant to me.
I just want one without any smart features or preprocessing. Signal in via hdmi, rca, or radio waves. Attempt to reproduce exactly the image the signal describes out with no frames waiting in a buffer or other added latency.
I think a lot of us do. I just want a good image and hook up an Apple TV and a computer. I can’t stand using Android TV. I’ve never seen an example of it not being slow. And with ads now becoming a thing I don’t want it even more.
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#20The whole concept of benchmarking a TV set sounds like something from a dystopian science fiction milieu.
... huh? We've been benchmarking TVs for decades. What am I missing?