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It's so frustrating. For some consumers, you're dropping multiple paychecks on a TV that you want to just _USE_ - but you can't because Samsung, LG, whoever dec
by scohesc 4y ago
It's so frustrating. For some consumers, you're dropping multiple paychecks on a TV that you want to just _USE_ - but you can't because Samsung, LG, whoever decided to take money from various companies and shove their garbage advertising down your throats and you can't disable it.
I don't feel like browsing various commercial signage websites for TV's that don't have any advertising in and I don't feel like we should be punished for paying more for this either!
I just want a TV I can turn on - and it doesn't need to load an operating system - it doesn't need to delay displaying actual TV because the computer needs to reach out and upload telemetry, download advertisements, and take pictures of what you watch. It just needs to take an HDMI/RCA/whatever ports, and output the signal on the screen.
There's no expectation of privacy anymore in society - some company somewhere has eked out a slice of the market share, and are pounding their customers with ways to extract more wealth out of you while you sit and take it - the 2 or 3 second delays eating up your life for advertisements you'll never buy things from.
It's depressing - I just want a TV. A plain TV. I'd rather not pay more for a commercial display-tier TV that doesn't have any of this smart crap built in.
- potatototoo99 4y agoThere are plenty of plain TVs around though, just like there are plain operating systems, plain phones, etc but consumers still give their money to Samsung, Microsoft, Google, etc. Most people don't care, you are not the target audience.
- coldtea 4y agoSo, what would be some of that plenty "plain" models with good quality and comparable price?
- bombcar 4y agoFound a cheap one but it’s 720p. Sceptre 32" Class 720P HD LED TV X322BV-SR Didn’t spent much time looking at Walmart however.
- coldtea 4y agoYeah, taking more about a 50"-65" 4K, with a price at $800 or below... 32"/720 won't cut it - that's what I already have, and have had for like a decade...
- mikestew 4y agoI sold a 42"/720 close to a decade ago, and we'd had that TV quite a long time. I didn't know 720 panels were still even produced.
- bombcar 4y agoSceptre 55" Class 4K UHD LED TV HDR U550CV-U This one apparently doesn’t have smarts (there is a similar that does) but damn those things are way too cheap.
- jabroni_salad 4y agoSeems to be the way of it. When you start wanting things like 4k, good HDR, or (heavens forbid) low latency for games, the selections get a lot tighter. Actually, my employer tried to get a Sceptre as a reasonable accommodation for someone with low vision (needed everything to be huge). That panel was so unusable not even the legally blind want to look at it.
- LinAGKar 4y agoThat'd be a downgrade from my TV from over a decade ago.
- dleslie 4y agoGot any Amazon/BestBuy/Costco links for a 65" 4k "plain" TV that lacks advertisements?
- rexreed 4y agoYes check out Sceptre brand you can buy in any of a number of places. As dumb as it gets. 65" 4k goes for pretty cheap.
- NaturalPhallacy 4y agohttps://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?st=commercial+display&_dyncharset=UTF-8&_dynSessConf=&id=pcat17071&type=page&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=&sp=&qp=&list=n&af=true&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960&keys=keys https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?st=commercial+di... https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=commercial+display https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=commercial+display
- dleslie 4y agoDo those accept regular cable?
- NaturalPhallacy 4y agoConnectivity HDMI Port 3 USB Port 2 x USB 2.0 Ethernet Port Yes Audio Ports Stereo mini Jack https://www.newegg.com/samsung-qb43b-43/p/N82E16824027232?Item=9SIA24GJ321038 https://www.newegg.com/samsung-qb43b-43/p/N82E16824027232?It...