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Re: Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

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Post by AshamedCaptain » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 10:26 AM UTC

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #539

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #537

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Netflix is one of the few services that is not in the Apple TV program. I knew you would consider this as acceptable tracking. That is my point.

How is Apple tracking you when apps are sending information to it? Is Apple also tracking your email when companies send email to your iCloud email address? Absolutely everyone in the Apple ecosystem complains about Netflix not integrating with the AppleTV app. Which by the way you can delete….

So the threshold you are using is that is fine to do the tracking when another 3rd party agrees to it?

Re: Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

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Post by dododge » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 11:27 AM UTC

Dumblydorr wrote: post #318

t0bia_s wrote: post #242

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You can buy projector and have 120 inches screen in 160 inches wide room. And it is also unbreakable screen, useful especially if you have kids.

How far away from the screen do you need to sit though? Isn’t that too wide? I have kids but I’ve never seen them almost break a TV lol

"Too wide" is in the eye of the beholder. I typically sit eight feet from a 130" ultra-wide projection screen. That felt enormous the first time I used it, but after a decade it seems "normal" and I occasionally think about going bigger.

Re: Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

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Post by bookofjoe » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 11:02 AM UTC

dpark wrote: post #534

bookofjoe wrote: post #521

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Refrigerators, stoves, and washing machines are also heavy as hell. Like our plasma TVs, once situated their weights are irrelevant.

The weight of something that is typically mounted to a wall seems very relevant. Most TV mounts are not rated to hold the weight of a plasma TV. A poorly installed or insufficient mount could definitely fail. Plasma TVs not mounted to the wall are also concerning for safety reasons. A plasma TV tipped onto a young child would likely cause significant injury above and beyond what an LCD would cause. I loved my plasma…

Ah, I narrowly focused on my setup, which since inception in 2007 has consisted of my heavy plasma tv sitting atop the bespoke mount — extremely stable and overbuilt — that came with it atop a solid wood low console table.

Indeed, if the TV were to tip onto a young child it could cause serious injury; no such youngsters here.

As I think more about this, I realize I've never wall-mounted a TV nor would I ever do so: I just prefer them on stands.

Re: Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

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Post by bookofjoe » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 11:03 AM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #535

bookofjoe wrote: post #521

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Refrigerators, stoves, and washing machines are also heavy as hell. Like our plasma TVs, once situated their weights are irrelevant.

Refrigerators, stoves, and washing machines are rarely suspended from walls or situated on consoles from which they could easily be tipped over; televisions, OTOH...

See my response above.

Re: Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

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Post by t0bia_s » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 3:13 PM UTC

account42 wrote: post #529

t0bia_s wrote: post #242

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You can buy projector and have 120 inches screen in 160 inches wide room. And it is also unbreakable screen, useful especially if you have kids.

With awful blacks, sure.

You consider cinema screen as awful?

Re: Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

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Post by t0bia_s » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 3:15 PM UTC

baq wrote: post #331

t0bia_s wrote: post #242

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You can buy projector and have 120 inches screen in 160 inches wide room. And it is also unbreakable screen, useful especially if you have kids.

It’s nice but OLED contrast is very hard to beat, and if you’re one of those folks who insist that ‘a white wall is good enough’ then it’s not even the same ballpark of image quality.

Are cinema screens bad in contrast? Do you need a pixel peeping while watch conpressed streaming show?

Re: Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

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Post by itopaloglu83 » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 10:59 PM UTC

fainpul wrote: post #333

itopaloglu83 wrote: post #324

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Add a camera and microphone, and you have yourself a utopia that can control masses.

You mean dystopia, right?

utopia for the government, Kafkaesque dystopia for us.

Re: Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

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Post by MegaDeKay » Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 6:30 PM UTC

paholg wrote: post #247

MegaDeKay wrote: post #108

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Not really. That same link talks about how Intel and nvidia drivers can provide HDMI 2.1 on Linux but it is via their non-free firmware blob. AMD doesn't (can't? won't?) do the same but there is a workaround: a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter using a particular chip running hacked firmware. That'll get you 4K 120 Hz with working FreeSync VRR. https://forum.level1techs.com/t/it-is-possible-to-4k-120-hdr...

Some of us would like our expensive hardware to work without hacked third party dongles.

All of us would like our expensive hardware to work without hacked third party dongles. But given that this isn't possible with AMD open source drivers at the present time, this is the best we'll get for now.