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I would love to replace the full hardware of my TV(s). Starting times are horrible, it's like a bad joke where I wait up to 2 minutes to boot into netflix (boo

by herbst 3y ago

I would love to replace the full hardware of my TV(s). Starting times are horrible, it's like a bad joke where I wait up to 2 minutes to boot into netflix (boot horrible half smart OS, that boots into the MiTV stick (which sucks, and crashes) just to have a normal Netflix experience. You cannot control external speakers with the remote. They literally didn't put that in for their speaker output. My full android TV is not better either, boots forever. Recently started to do HDMI only in BW until I factory reset it. I mostly use it with a Linux computer as that's less painful. And the newest fun is that the remotes have constant connection issues on both TVs if they are more than 2 meters away. Which, why wouldn't it, blocks the whole screen until reconnected. TVs at this point are literally the worst customer tech products I could imagine.

rob74 3y ago
My Android TV (from Sony) has the habit of randomly restarting every so often, most of the time while I'm watching something I don't want to miss of course - no idea if it's doing system updates or just crashing, but even the updates could wait until I turn the TV off? It also has some quirks that appear from time to time (buttons on the remote not working, sound or image not working etc.), then I know it's time to, as the saying goes, try turning it off and on again. And, most annoying of all, sometimes it just randomly "forgets" channels, so I have to do a full channel scan (or restore the channels from a USB stick) to get them back. Since a few weeks, channel 4 is one channel when I press "up" from channel 3 and a different channel when I press "down" from channel 5. I can't even start to imagine a way to implement the channel list that would allow this bug to happen, but it does...
- herbst 3y ago
  > Since a few weeks, channel 4 is one channel when I press "up" from channel 3 and a different channel when I press "down" from channel 5. I can't even start to imagine a way to implement the channel list that would allow this bug to happen, but it does... And here was me thinking I spend the extra for a Sony on the next TV as they appear to 'more stable'. But well...
  - neodymiumphish 3y ago
    I don’t think his anecdotal experience is representative of the masses. I have a Bravia Google TV and I’ve experienced none of his issues, except that controlling external speakers is limited to something like 10 surround sound SKUs, presumably all Sony options. Other than that, we’ve loved the speed and usability of this TV for about 2.5 years now.
  - gorbypark 3y ago
    My in-laws have a fairly high end Sony smart TV (Android TV based) from only 3 or 4 years ago and it's the worst POS I've ever encountered. It was always a bit sluggish (flipping through menus, changing channels, etc) but recently it has slowed to an absolute crawl. Any type of App or even bringing up the menu takes like 2 minutes, and turning on the TV takes like 5 minutes. Once it's booted up, at least flipping through the OTA channels "only" takes about 2 or 3 seconds, so it's somewhat usable. My initial instinct is that some sort of hardware is failing (storage, maybe?) but it was quite slow to begin with, so it's plausible a software update is the cause.
    - zimpenfish 3y ago
      Adding an anecdata to the pile - my parents have a Sony Smart TV and yeah, it's a POS. Trying to watch some YouTube videos at Christmas and it would frequently crash with "This page requires too much memory" errors.
    - RugnirViking 3y ago
      I have this problem. I almost cannot use it at all apart from chromecast streaming. Any ideas what could fix it?
      - arcanemachiner 3y ago
        Just speculating, but do a factory reset and never ever connect it to the Internet. Maybe try older firmware if it's available.
    - InfamousRece 3y ago
- imp0cat 3y ago
  It's probably crashing. You can plug the TV into a smart plug and disconnect it from mains power when not in use. The boot times will probably be longer, but it won't crash as much during use.
  - herbst 3y ago
    It is. And yes it works better if it was disconnected before, but not reliable. However I likely have a unlucky stick, from the 3 I bought that's the one acting up most.
    - imp0cat 3y ago
      Yeah, that's quite possible. My Sony also has some minor glitches like forgetting to output sound sometimes (a restart fixes it - it's most probably caused by one of the apps I have installed).
askvictor 3y ago
I just bought a dumb tv (on clearance as I presume the manufacturer is moving on to smart models).
twojobsoneboss 3y ago
Just plug into a regular PC media center with a full browser and use an air mouse (Wii like thing) to control
- herbst 3y ago
  That's what I do in my living room. Still need to boot the TV to android, hope the remote works so I can switch to HDMI and hope the remote doesn't have connection issues because that captures any screen on my TV.
- neuralRiot 3y ago
  Raspberry pi, you can add HDMI-CEC and you can control the media center app with the TV remote without adding any hardware.
  - twojobsoneboss 3y ago
    Or just get a stick pc that plugs in via hdmi

by herbst 3y ago

rob74 3y ago

My Android TV (from Sony) has the habit of randomly restarting every so often, most of the time while I'm watching something I don't want to miss of course - no idea if it's doing system updates or just crashing, but even the updates could wait until I turn the TV off? It also has some quirks that appear from time to time (buttons on the remote not working, sound or image not working etc.), then I know it's time to, as the saying goes, try turning it off and on again. And, most annoying of all, sometimes it just randomly "forgets" channels, so I have to do a full channel scan (or restore the channels from a USB stick) to get them back. Since a few weeks, channel 4 is one channel when I press "up" from channel 3 and a different channel when I press "down" from channel 5. I can't even start to imagine a way to implement the channel list that would allow this bug to happen, but it does...

herbst 3y ago
> Since a few weeks, channel 4 is one channel when I press "up" from channel 3 and a different channel when I press "down" from channel 5. I can't even start to imagine a way to implement the channel list that would allow this bug to happen, but it does... And here was me thinking I spend the extra for a Sony on the next TV as they appear to 'more stable'. But well...
- neodymiumphish 3y ago
  I don’t think his anecdotal experience is representative of the masses. I have a Bravia Google TV and I’ve experienced none of his issues, except that controlling external speakers is limited to something like 10 surround sound SKUs, presumably all Sony options. Other than that, we’ve loved the speed and usability of this TV for about 2.5 years now.
- gorbypark 3y ago
  My in-laws have a fairly high end Sony smart TV (Android TV based) from only 3 or 4 years ago and it's the worst POS I've ever encountered. It was always a bit sluggish (flipping through menus, changing channels, etc) but recently it has slowed to an absolute crawl. Any type of App or even bringing up the menu takes like 2 minutes, and turning on the TV takes like 5 minutes. Once it's booted up, at least flipping through the OTA channels "only" takes about 2 or 3 seconds, so it's somewhat usable. My initial instinct is that some sort of hardware is failing (storage, maybe?) but it was quite slow to begin with, so it's plausible a software update is the cause.
  - zimpenfish 3y ago
    Adding an anecdata to the pile - my parents have a Sony Smart TV and yeah, it's a POS. Trying to watch some YouTube videos at Christmas and it would frequently crash with "This page requires too much memory" errors.
  - RugnirViking 3y ago
    I have this problem. I almost cannot use it at all apart from chromecast streaming. Any ideas what could fix it?
    - arcanemachiner 3y ago
      Just speculating, but do a factory reset and never ever connect it to the Internet. Maybe try older firmware if it's available.
  - InfamousRece 3y ago
imp0cat 3y ago
It's probably crashing. You can plug the TV into a smart plug and disconnect it from mains power when not in use. The boot times will probably be longer, but it won't crash as much during use.
- herbst 3y ago
  It is. And yes it works better if it was disconnected before, but not reliable. However I likely have a unlucky stick, from the 3 I bought that's the one acting up most.
  - imp0cat 3y ago
    Yeah, that's quite possible. My Sony also has some minor glitches like forgetting to output sound sometimes (a restart fixes it - it's most probably caused by one of the apps I have installed).

askvictor 3y ago

I just bought a dumb tv (on clearance as I presume the manufacturer is moving on to smart models).

twojobsoneboss 3y ago

Just plug into a regular PC media center with a full browser and use an air mouse (Wii like thing) to control

herbst 3y ago
That's what I do in my living room. Still need to boot the TV to android, hope the remote works so I can switch to HDMI and hope the remote doesn't have connection issues because that captures any screen on my TV.
neuralRiot 3y ago
Raspberry pi, you can add HDMI-CEC and you can control the media center app with the TV remote without adding any hardware.
- twojobsoneboss 3y ago
  Or just get a stick pc that plugs in via hdmi