Smart TVs are dumb
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Smart TVs are dumb
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#2A Samsung SmartTV is similar. I have often ranted aloud to my television about hardware developers considering Single Responsibility when designing. Most of the time I just need my screen to be a screen.
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#3With the whole 'built-in Plex' thing that LG TVs had, I was actually pretty interested in getting one. After seeing them in action, I've realized that these people obviously don't test their software in any real circumstances.
Companies building 'smart' devices need to ensure that the core interactions people are going to have with their devices are as good as or better than the alternatives.
What LG could easily have done is built a small, always-on device core which defaulted to a splash screen containing inputs on the left and favorites on the right. Powering on the TV would be just warming up the LCD display, a few seconds at most. If your current input is inactive, show the splash screen. Otherwise, go straight to your content.
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#4A Samsung Smart TV is similar. I have often ranted aloud to my television about hardware developers considering Single Responsibility when designing. Most of the time I just need my screen to be a screen.
Agreed! At the time, this TV was a great deal, even when compared to non-smart models. Now I'd gladly take the feature-hit to have a more responsive UI.
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#5A Samsung Smart TV is similar. I have often ranted aloud to my television about hardware developers considering Single Responsibility when designing. Most of the time I just need my screen to be a screen.
Same with Vizio. I timed it to just under two minutes to get to the Neflix movie list from cold start -- Even my four-year old laptop with a HDD is faster than that. I'm thinking of replacing the TV now with a dumb Samsung and a Roku. How can they get it _so_ bad?
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#6A Samsung Smart TV is similar. I have often ranted aloud to my television about hardware developers considering Single Responsibility when designing. Most of the time I just need my screen to be a screen.
My samsung "smart" tv doesn't load the smart part until you tell it to, so just turning it on and using it like a tv is much faster than the lg one shown in that video.
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#7It's time for Apple to step in and show everyone how it's done.
Of course, once this happens, a lot of people will develop selective amnesia, as it happened with phones.
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#8I have the 60LM7200 and it is the same way. This and the stupid wii-like remote are the only two bad things I really have to say about this TV. You cannot fully control the TV with a universal remote since a lot of the features require the pointer to select. I've tried every LG code I can find with my Dish Network remote.
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#9I have the 60LM7200 and it is the same way. This and the stupid wii-like remote are the only two bad things I really have to say about this TV. You cannot fully control the TV with a universal remote since a lot of the features require the pointer to select. I've tried every LG code I can find with my Dish Network remote.
Yeah, tell me about it.Have you tried a logitech harmony yet? That'd my next step.
Also, I've been using the LG iPhone app to control the pointer & clicking via touchscreen over the network. It does most of what I want, and has a "built-in" input button!
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#10One reason to resent the pervasiveness of new technology -- not that it's inherently bad or that we're becoming luddites, but we don't want to deal with each company's separate and probably-shitty implementation of something we can do well on our computers.
My refrigerator does not need to tweet. My refrigerator is supposed to keep things cold. That's all I expect from it. I don't want a half-baked inventory management system or a TV.
My Blu-ray player should play movies. Not tweet, not download updates for a movie. The experience should not be inferior to VHS (by lacking the ability to fast-forward at will).
One example of a shitty experience in my recent memory: Last week I turned on my PS3 after it's been off for about a year. I wanted to play Gran Turismo (5, I think). Plugging it into Ethernet was a big mistake. First, the OS must be updated. That takes 5 minutes. Next, Gran Turismo must apply TWENTY updates before I can play. I took a picture of my screen because it was so ludicrous. I took another picture when it was installing the last update. Those two pictures are forty-five minutes apart! Finally I can play the game that worked just fine a year ago. The only thing that's new is that it asks me to sign into Playstation's network every time I load the game.
So, now, given the option to connect something to the Internet, I probably won't. The user experience matters.