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Its always about the buzzwords... a few years ago I tried to buy a TV without 3D-support because I didn´t want to spend the money on a useless feature (for me).
by dod9er 9y ago
Its always about the buzzwords... a few years ago I tried to buy a TV without 3D-support because I didn´t want to spend the money on a useless feature (for me). Guess what, no major brand offered a TV without 3D, I ended up buying the usual suspect. But now the situation has improved ! It got easy again to buy a TV without 3D-support at least :D
Same for the current must-have features...
I think the common nerd would love a dumb display with decent calibration etc. out-of-the-box, so he could just connect his favorite media-box and have fun for a reasonable price. But this isn´t where the profits are made!
edit: Because you could just replace your mediabox after a few years, when e.g. netflix stops playing on it. I´m really waiting for a new player who gives us this dumb high-quality display so many nerds are waiting for.
- dsr_ 9y agoIf you block your TV's MAC addresses at your firewall, all the intrusive "smart" features stop working. Or have DHCPd map them to static IPs and block those. Either way, most people on HN can do this... and most TV purchasers aren't even aware that it's an option.
- Simon_says 9y agoI'm curious why you would need to block MAC addresses. Why wouldn't just not plugging in ethernet and not giving it the WiFi password be sufficient to stop your TV from going online?
- osaariki 9y agoJust a guess: having the TV think it has an internet connection might prevent annoying prompts to connect it to the internet.