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Sharing a TV with everyone and everything else in the house is far from ideal. A good number of home-computer users did it in the '80s, but only out of necessit
by leoc 6y ago
Sharing a TV with everyone and everything else in the house is far from ideal. A good number of home-computer users did it in the '80s, but only out of necessity. You need multiple fully-working TVs knocking about the house before giving one over to a computer is likely to be no problem, and that's probably a lot less universal.
- bee_rider 6y agoOur TV sits unused during work hours for the most part, I think this is less of an issue than people are making it out to be.
- leoc 6y agoI've done it, both relatively recently with a laptop connected to the TV and with a Spectrum +2A in the Good Old Days. It's pretty bad, and fortunately I am not and was not a child in a troubled household, or one of two children who both need to use the same TV to get their schoolwork done.
- bee_rider 6y agoThere definitely are possible concerns. I used my computer on my nice 4k tv for a bit and really liked it -- to the point where I went out and got a cheap 4k from Walmart... and returned it the same day, latency issues. TVs aren't designed to be nice monitors, but we're talking about cases where the alternative might be nothing. Multiple kids -- definitely an issue, but it's still one fewer setups than before.
- scruffyherder 6y agoWho didn’t plug their 8 bit machine into the big telly before dad got home?