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monitors dont have tv channels or hook ups for a lot of peoples cable boxes usually dont have the best (if ant) speakers or a remote either

by ffggvv 4y ago

iancmceachern 4y ago
My 42" 4k LG monitor has both a remote and built-in speakers. It also plugs right into my cable box via one of its 4 hdmi inputs
mathgeek 4y ago
As far as cable boxes go, what are they using for connections these days? I haven’t seen one in ages as everyone in my social circles (as a child of the early 80s) dropped cable years ago.
- jimmaswell 4y ago
  just HDMI generally
pzmarzly 4y ago
Lack of TV antenna input can be a good thing if you live in a country that collects extra taxes for having a TV, like Austria, Ireland or Poland, as your screen is not a TV by law. IMHO there isn't much value in TV channels nowadays anyway.
- alexpotato 4y ago
  I lived in the UK in the 80's and remember they had TV ads that showed a SWAT team stacking up and then bursting into an apartment, grabbing a guy watching TV on his couch, throwing him on the floor and handcuffing him and then a big banner: "PAY YOUR TV LICENSE FEES. NOT DOING SO IS A CRIME." If you've never heard of such a thing: https://www.gov.uk/tv-licence https://www.gov.uk/tv-licence
  - earthboundkid 4y ago
    In Japan, you’re supposed to pay for NHK, so they send old people door to door whose job is to guilt you into paying. I pretended I didn’t speak Japanese and then went back inside for more of that great bilingual nightly news bwahaha
  - philwelch 4y ago
    That sounds horrifically dystopian.
    - ficklepickle 4y ago
      As a non-brit, I found the concept of TV detector vans[0] to be pretty incredible. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van
      - philwelch 4y ago
        Yeah, I was aware of these and while it’s pretty crazy, I also used to drive with a radar detector detector detector[1] so it’s not like electronic warfare with the police is an alien concept to me. I just thought Britain was too polite to literally threaten people with SWAT teams over unpaid TV licenses. [1] A radar detector is used to detect police radars, which are used to catch speeders. Police responded with radar detector detectors, which detect radar detectors, which are legal but police don’t like them. The citizen countermeasure, built into your better radar detectors, is the radar detector detector detector, which detects radar detector detectors and can additionally protect your radar detector from itself being detected. I am not aware of the successful invention of a radar detector detector detector detector.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
  Lucky, them. In Germany every household has to pay it, because of "new media", meaning regardless of the (non)existence of classical TV, radio, there is probably internet, smartphone, some means to consume public tv and radio, so f---ing PAY! Even if one can't stand that sh-t at all, and ignores it since 1996 :-) Meanwhile the president of France promised to get rid of it this year, probably this fall.
  - distances 4y ago
    I don't mind these fees. It's better than collecting the same in taxes as it keeps the public broadcaster independent from political oversight, at least to a certain degree.
    - LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
      I do, because it is all BS. It should all be pay per view, via smartcards, or similar. And then more and more people would think twice if it's really worth it, to them. While the producers can GTFO, and do something meaningful with their UBI, or whatever :-) Case in point, I recently watched a playlist on YT about some topic, while doing stuff concurrently. About two dozen documentaries, all in all. It almost doesn't matter who is producing them, they all resample and mix the same stuff, over and over again, in variations of the same theme. Even carrying over the same mistranslations and mispronounciations, thereby communicating wrongness. But should be correct, because it was on TV, they should know what they do, how dare you to question them!? Monkey see, Monkey do! Boo! There rarely is anything original. This went on for maybe 3 to 4 hours, then I canceled it and put some music on. Much better. And don't even get me started about the so called 'independence' of those arrogant mouthpieces and sockpuppets.
      - distances 4y ago
        Pay per view would add exactly the kind of incentives that would be disastrous. It's important that public broadcasters are (comparatively) free from commercial and political pressures, that's the only way to execute the mission they have been created for.

monitors dont have tv channels or hook ups for a lot of peoples cable boxes usually dont have the best (if ant) speakers or a remote either

by ffggvv 4y ago

monitors dont have tv channels or hook ups for a lot of peoples cable boxes usually dont have the best (if ant) speakers or a remote either

iancmceachern 4y ago

My 42" 4k LG monitor has both a remote and built-in speakers. It also plugs right into my cable box via one of its 4 hdmi inputs

mathgeek 4y ago

As far as cable boxes go, what are they using for connections these days? I haven’t seen one in ages as everyone in my social circles (as a child of the early 80s) dropped cable years ago.

jimmaswell 4y ago
just HDMI generally

pzmarzly 4y ago

Lack of TV antenna input can be a good thing if you live in a country that collects extra taxes for having a TV, like Austria, Ireland or Poland, as your screen is not a TV by law. IMHO there isn't much value in TV channels nowadays anyway.

alexpotato 4y ago
I lived in the UK in the 80's and remember they had TV ads that showed a SWAT team stacking up and then bursting into an apartment, grabbing a guy watching TV on his couch, throwing him on the floor and handcuffing him and then a big banner: "PAY YOUR TV LICENSE FEES. NOT DOING SO IS A CRIME." If you've never heard of such a thing: https://www.gov.uk/tv-licence https://www.gov.uk/tv-licence
- earthboundkid 4y ago
  In Japan, you’re supposed to pay for NHK, so they send old people door to door whose job is to guilt you into paying. I pretended I didn’t speak Japanese and then went back inside for more of that great bilingual nightly news bwahaha
- philwelch 4y ago
  That sounds horrifically dystopian.
  - ficklepickle 4y ago
    As a non-brit, I found the concept of TV detector vans[0] to be pretty incredible. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van
    - philwelch 4y ago
      Yeah, I was aware of these and while it’s pretty crazy, I also used to drive with a radar detector detector detector[1] so it’s not like electronic warfare with the police is an alien concept to me. I just thought Britain was too polite to literally threaten people with SWAT teams over unpaid TV licenses. [1] A radar detector is used to detect police radars, which are used to catch speeders. Police responded with radar detector detectors, which detect radar detectors, which are legal but police don’t like them. The citizen countermeasure, built into your better radar detectors, is the radar detector detector detector, which detects radar detector detectors and can additionally protect your radar detector from itself being detected. I am not aware of the successful invention of a radar detector detector detector detector.
LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
Lucky, them. In Germany every household has to pay it, because of "new media", meaning regardless of the (non)existence of classical TV, radio, there is probably internet, smartphone, some means to consume public tv and radio, so f---ing PAY! Even if one can't stand that sh-t at all, and ignores it since 1996 :-) Meanwhile the president of France promised to get rid of it this year, probably this fall.
- distances 4y ago
  I don't mind these fees. It's better than collecting the same in taxes as it keeps the public broadcaster independent from political oversight, at least to a certain degree.
  - LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
    I do, because it is all BS. It should all be pay per view, via smartcards, or similar. And then more and more people would think twice if it's really worth it, to them. While the producers can GTFO, and do something meaningful with their UBI, or whatever :-) Case in point, I recently watched a playlist on YT about some topic, while doing stuff concurrently. About two dozen documentaries, all in all. It almost doesn't matter who is producing them, they all resample and mix the same stuff, over and over again, in variations of the same theme. Even carrying over the same mistranslations and mispronounciations, thereby communicating wrongness. But should be correct, because it was on TV, they should know what they do, how dare you to question them!? Monkey see, Monkey do! Boo! There rarely is anything original. This went on for maybe 3 to 4 hours, then I canceled it and put some music on. Much better. And don't even get me started about the so called 'independence' of those arrogant mouthpieces and sockpuppets.
    - distances 4y ago
      Pay per view would add exactly the kind of incentives that would be disastrous. It's important that public broadcasters are (comparatively) free from commercial and political pressures, that's the only way to execute the mission they have been created for.