It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV
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#2I’m dead serious
I’d pay an $80 to $100 premium for a dumb TV
I’d even consider replacing a couple
Smart TVs are just terrible
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#3I’m dead serious I’d pay an $80 to $100 premium for a dumb TV I’d even consider replacing a couple Smart TVs are just terrible
The other day I was reading the HDMI spec. I realised, in almost full horror, it’s stupidly streaming pixels instead of image deltas. When every TV has memory enough for several full frame images, this is just crazy.
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#4Might be better off using a computer plugged into a screen + speaker combo to have the most control
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#5I’m dead serious I’d pay an $80 to $100 premium for a dumb TV I’d even consider replacing a couple Smart TVs are just terrible
I've switched to buy computer monitors since I realised I don't watch TV anymore. Even if I did there are more than one way to watch TV on non-TV devices over here (some free, some paid, some both, e.g the quite awesome molotov.tv, which gives a TV experience quite better than any smart TV)
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#6Every TV is "stupid" when it's not connected to the internet, and none of them can transmit your data when disconnected.
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#7Is there a reason I’m not aware of that not connecting a smart to to a network isn’t enough?
Do they auto-connect to open Wi-Fi for example?
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#8Is there a reason I’m not aware of that not connecting a smart to to a network isn’t enough? Do they auto-connect to open Wi-Fi for example?
Apparently some(? many? most?) of them refuse to work at all until they've been "set up" over the internet. Don't know for sure though; I'm clinging to my old dumb TV like a life raft.
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#9I’m dead serious I’d pay an $80 to $100 premium for a dumb TV I’d even consider replacing a couple Smart TVs are just terrible
The other day I was reading the HDMI spec. I realised, in almost full horror, it’s stupidly streaming pixels instead of image deltas. When every TV has memory enough for several full frame images, this is just crazy.
You're thinking of bandwidth savings?
Rethink that. If HDMI were delta-compressed, then what happens if you exceed the bandwidth limit for several frames in a row? To be reliable, it needs to have as much bandwidth allocated as is needed for bitmap streaming. And in that case, why not just stream the bitmaps...
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#10Every TV is "stupid" when it's not connected to the internet, and none of them can transmit your data when disconnected.
If it turns out that too many people are disconnecting their tv, the manufacturer would merely add in a sim card.
They don't yet ATM because they don't need to - too many people are stupidly connecting their wifi.