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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Anybody else have a weird level of fixation on the baseball player and the game character being in the same pose? Like, "maybe it's watching" kind of fixation?

[–] Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 hour ago

I'd like to be exactly this high, please

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

I just bought this dumb tv. Couldn't be happier.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CJV6722

It's not a good tv, but it's the biggest one I could fit on my desk and it has absolutely no "smart" features.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Gaming on a TV? Wouldn't like that low refresh rate personally

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

144Hz TVs are a thing and common. I'm using a 65" 144Hz 4K OLED right now.

Modern TVs are excellent gaming monitors, and they're much cheaper than an equivalent PC monitor. Especially LG OLEDs, since they are built with gaming in mind. Input lag is a thing of the past.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah, tried to play Dead By Daylight that way and it basically made skill checks impossible.

[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 hour ago

Sounds like a skill issue

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago

If that's real, then it's full refund or terrorism upon both the vendor and manufacturer.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago

I’ve seen LG getting trashed alongside the other offenders in the industry in smart TV discussions. I have an LG CX65 OLED from 2020, and I’ve always seen the onboard WebOS as pretty serviceable. Have they gotten a lot worse in the last few years? And/or does it vary by product price?

There are definitely some advertising options to turn off in the menus, and with all that taken care of the only UI I use is a row of app icons that pops up. No ads anywhere, and I don’t seem to be logged into the TV with any kind of account. (Though typing this reminded me that the cheap LG LCD in my son’s room does want a login in order to update firmware)

Note I said it was serviceable, not great. The UI could be more responsive on better hardware, but it’s also convenient for my family to just be able to use the Wiimote-like motion pointer built into the remote.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 44 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

First rule of smart TVs: if you really have to buy a smart TV, then never connect it to the internet!

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 10 points 5 hours ago

I've read at some other post that some smart TVs won't work at all if you don't connect it to the internet.

Read with caution, I haven't verified this.

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 10 points 8 hours ago

I can’t believe this is real. I’ve just bought a relatively cheap Samsung smart TV and it’s got nothing close to this. I would hardly even say it’s got adverts since it’s mostly just recommendations from my apps in the same way they all do now, I don’t think I’ve actually seen it try to sell me anything or get me to watch something that wasn’t free.

Who the fuck would buy a TV like this? If a company was going to introduce on-screen ads like this they’d start really small.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 52 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Oops, stepped on another $1200 landmine did you? Should have researched where you put your foot. Everyone knows this neighborhood is littered with landmines. No, there's nothing we can really do about it except hand out these exhaustive charts and navigation tools. Of course they need to constantly get re-updated and are themselves periodically hijacked by the pro-landmine industry to turn into a second-tier grift. But that just means you have to research who you research for your TV research.

Don't worry, you'll get it eventually. God gave us two legs for a reason.

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[–] FolknForage@lemm.ee 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Ads and bloat are the main reason I still use my 1080p Bravia from 15 yrs ago, which btw still looks great.

Well, that and that I have better uses for 1k usd

[–] dai@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I bought a 47" or 49" tv for a few hundred AUD - it was a dumb TV - 1080p from memory. Thing lasted 10 + years, reasonable picture quality and only needed a Chromecast and eventually got a ShieldTV.

That TV since died after 4 moves, two of which were 350km+ but man it was money well spent.

We've now got a 60something" Hisense which is a bloated crapware box, it's not allowed on the network; same with the reverse cycle dryer, or any "smart" home appliance. The volume of traffic these devices send wherever is absurd.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know if it's something you want to tackle, but making a separate VLAN on your home LAN and shifting all the IoT/smart devices to that network can keep them from whatever snooping or spying these devices might do on your LAN that you work and live on. Plus you can more easily monitor the unreasonably chatty ones and block them or at least prune off their ad-seeking IP addresses. PiHole for a home LAN can help a lot too, but that's another discussion.

[–] dai@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Oh I do have a VLAN for my reolink cameras and some other home built iOT devices with adguard running on my primary LAN (two adguard instances for redundancy).

But I'd still not want to waste any bandwidth on "smart" devices.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Nice. Totally understandable. We have unlimited DL/UL, but I don’t support leeches on our LAN.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 44 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

Looked at the CES reveals and aside from some minor improvements, its nothing but overloaded AI crap.

Even on TVs from 10 years ago, the first thing you had to do was turn off the stupid auto frame generation, smoothing, lighting, and other effects so you can actually enjoy your content in original detail and correct FPS.

[–] relic_@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Feel like I'm the only one that likes the soap opera effect to some extent 🙈

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

It’s fine for tv, but it causes input delay for video games.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 hours ago

It took me way too long to figure out what was going on with those settings. One of my relatives tv's was like this back in the day and at first I thought it was just their "HD" setup which made me completely write off getting anything HD because of the fake look like a soap opera. It wasn't till I was gifted a blue-ray player that I realized their tv just had horrible "enchancement" shit.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

So smart TVs are now smartass TVs?

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[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 39 points 15 hours ago (17 children)

My current TV has started to die. It's developing a purple spot that starts to be very distracting. I am not excited about researching a new model that doesn't pull out this kind a shit on me. I don't intend to ever connect it to the Internet. My current TV is nothing more than a big display for my NVIDIA shield TV and the next one will be the same.

[–] qx128@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Check out “commercial” TVs. These are TVs for businesses (e.g. displaying a menu at a restaurant). They typically don’t have the “smart” features. You have to look for them specifically.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

No, they are NOT tvs! The difference is that the display panels are to slow for fast action scenes or any kind of scene switch, that's why they only show a set of static images on rotation.

[–] 1371113@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

There are plenty of panels that are 60hz+ with decent g2g in the display panel space. My company sells them sometimes so i just ordered from there for my current tv. 65 inch. LED. 5 year warranty. Just a panel. No smart anything. It’s fine for sports, at least cricket and basketball which is what I watch.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 30 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Sceptre makes a decent dumb tv.

I have one. I like it. 4k. Good enough for me.

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[–] eluvatar@programming.dev 23 points 14 hours ago

This is where I would go to research a new tv https://www.rtings.com/

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