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Smart TVs are completely unnessary. I don't want apps on my TV. Sure, apps on something connected to my TV can be nice, but even the most basic TVs have too m

by RIMR 12y ago

Smart TVs are completely unnessary. I don't want apps on my TV. Sure, apps on something connected to my TV can be nice, but even the most basic TVs have too many features. Built-in speakers? They sound awful and I have an amp. Get rid of them. Oh, you cropped my 1080P HDTV signal? Well, I've plugged in a computer, so I need you to display the whole frame. Oh, less than half of TVs even let you turn that feature off? Well fuck! TVs don't need to be anything more than monitors. They can have special features, like 3D, or built-in cameras, but make it something that I can plug into something else. How Samsung thought they could record private conversations in people's homes and push ads into their private videos without consequence is unbelievable. I will NEVER buy a smart TV.

mey 12y ago
I disagree about the speakers but agree with everything else. I will not buy a "SmartTV", give me a A/V interface, that's all I want. I'll swap out Roku's or consoles or computers on the back end over standard interfaces. The rest of it is a massive security hole, and apparently also a violation of privacy.
danudey 12y ago
I love my AppleTV, and I would buy an Apple TV if one came out, for a few reasons. I actually only use my ATV to watch Netflix and buy Doctor Who and Archer off iTunes, but I'd buy a TV made by Apple because I feel like they would do a good job. My TV, when I hit the power button on the remote, takes about 5 seconds to give me any indication that it heard me; I then get another 5 seconds of the LG logo before I get dumped onto whatever input I was last on. In comparison, when I move my mouse on my computer, my Apple cinema display wakes up almost instantaneously (display), and my AppleTV goes from sleep mode to showing me the last menu I was on in less than a second (processing). Thus, I expect an Apple television to be on and available to use within moments of my requesting it, and off as soon as I tell it I'm done. The AppleTV 3rd Gen also maxes out at about 1W of power used[1], which means that there's no reason why the brains of a smart TV shouldn't be able to be on 100% of the time, ready at any moment to power on for incoming content, rather than having my television add 30s to the simple act of showing someone a YouTube video. That said, Apple make their money by making high-quality, high-margin devices, and not by racing to the bottom of the price structure and selling out customers to make ends meet. [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/6834/apple-tv-2013-a1469-short-review-analysis-of-a-new-a5 http://www.anandtech.com/show/6834/apple-tv-2013-a1469-short...
Too 12y ago
Does DLNA and Intel WiDi count as "just plugging in a monitor"?

by RIMR 12y ago

mey 12y ago

I disagree about the speakers but agree with everything else. I will not buy a "SmartTV", give me a A/V interface, that's all I want. I'll swap out Roku's or consoles or computers on the back end over standard interfaces. The rest of it is a massive security hole, and apparently also a violation of privacy.

danudey 12y ago

I love my AppleTV, and I would buy an Apple TV if one came out, for a few reasons. I actually only use my ATV to watch Netflix and buy Doctor Who and Archer off iTunes, but I'd buy a TV made by Apple because I feel like they would do a good job. My TV, when I hit the power button on the remote, takes about 5 seconds to give me any indication that it heard me; I then get another 5 seconds of the LG logo before I get dumped onto whatever input I was last on. In comparison, when I move my mouse on my computer, my Apple cinema display wakes up almost instantaneously (display), and my AppleTV goes from sleep mode to showing me the last menu I was on in less than a second (processing). Thus, I expect an Apple television to be on and available to use within moments of my requesting it, and off as soon as I tell it I'm done. The AppleTV 3rd Gen also maxes out at about 1W of power used[1], which means that there's no reason why the brains of a smart TV shouldn't be able to be on 100% of the time, ready at any moment to power on for incoming content, rather than having my television add 30s to the simple act of showing someone a YouTube video. That said, Apple make their money by making high-quality, high-margin devices, and not by racing to the bottom of the price structure and selling out customers to make ends meet. [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/6834/apple-tv-2013-a1469-short-review-analysis-of-a-new-a5 http://www.anandtech.com/show/6834/apple-tv-2013-a1469-short...

Too 12y ago

Does DLNA and Intel WiDi count as "just plugging in a monitor"?