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Please anyone in hardware: come up with a TV brand that features no built-in internet connectivity whatsoever. We’d all buy it in a blink. It’s also kinda urg
by baxtr 2y ago
Please anyone in hardware: come up with a TV brand that features no built-in internet connectivity whatsoever.
We’d all buy it in a blink.
It’s also kinda urgent. I’m clinging onto my 2007 TV because I don’t want a smart TV. Not sure how long it will last.
- teh_infallible 2y agoGet a short throw projector. You can plug anything into it. It’s the perfect “dumb” screen.
- OrvalWintermute 2y agoI would totally buy it.
- CharlesW 2y agoThere are always many hundreds of options for "dumb TVs", the secret being that they're called "commercial [TVs|monitors|displays]". For example, B&H lists 2,105 so-called commercial displays as I type this (which you can easily filter to your specifications). https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?q=commercial%20display https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?q=commercial%20display
- crtasm 2y agoI thought their size filter was missing the . but you really can get a 589" display there. Good to see these have added multiple HDMI ports since I last looked.
- Animats 2y agoHere's a dumb 43 inch screen. It's sold as a gamer monitor. It's a UHD TV display with HDMI in and no onboard smarts.[1] Here's another Samsung dumb screen, at 55 inches.[2] This is supposed to be for digital signage, but it's really a UHD monitor with HDMI in. But the next size up has "Alexa built in". Sceptre, which mostly supplies Walmart, has a whole line of dumb TVs, including some big ones.[3] They're a little company in City of Industry, CA, which seems to have found their niche in dumb TVs. There are lots of "digital signage" displays available. They're usually very bright, reasonably rugged, OK for 24/7 operation, immune to burn-in (they may spend their whole working life displaying mostly the same fast food menu), but not that good [1] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-m70d-43-led-4k-uhd-60hz-4ms-smart-monitor-with-hdr-10-hdmi-usb-black/6581675.p?skuId=6581675 https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-m70d-43-led-4k-uhd-60hz... [2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08651PB1J https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08651PB1J [3] https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV/U750CV-UMRD-75-4K-UHD-TV-product1131category1category73.html https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV/U750CV-UMRD-75-4K-UHD-T...
- rpdillon 2y agoI raise Sceptre every time I see this sentiment, but folks just don't seem to know about them. I got a humble 54" 4k from them a couple of years back for a few hundred bucks. Used it every day since, works great. Zero bullshit. Slow startup, though. Can be like 10-15 seconds.
- 1_1xdev1 2y agoSceptre exists on paper but they’re almost always “sold out”
- int0x29 2y agoTheir monitors have the same startup time issue which is a pain if you need to access the boot menu.
- Uvix 2y agoSceptre's TVs don't seem to support 120 Hz or variable refresh rate yet, only their smaller monitors, so they're not a good fit for anybody with a current-generation video game console.
- aidenn0 2y agoLast time I tried to find a Sceptre, the only things in stock were models that were several years old, with features comparable to TVs that were even older.