if you can’t tell the difference between a nice OLED and an average LCD then you need your eyeballs checked.
It’s not just about oled vs lcd. There’s a huge difference between backlight arrays in cheap lcds vs expensive lcds. And there’s still benefits to choosing lcd over oled. Either way, some people just don’t care about image quality. I have a friend that claims he still can’t tell the difference between dvd and Blu-ray, or 4k Blu-ray.
sure, it was just an extreme example. the point is the article is nonsense.
It might be kind of helpful for like a portion of the population. Maybe.
maybe if they said “expensive TVs are not worth it for some people” but 1) that’s not what they said, and 2) that’s obvious and doesn’t need analysis anyway.
Fair
There’s plenty of people in this very thread who are super proud of their 7 year old $300 nameless small tvs
Expensive large screen displays are better.
Smart TVs are privacy invasive billboards that let you watch some TV on their terms.
They’re a little bit better if you just never connect them to the internet.
This just doesn’t seem to click for a lot of people for some reason that I cannot explain whatsoever. I don’t even have mine connected to electricity when I’m not using it.
Mine gets put in the garage when its not being used. Microphones to record you can work on battery power inside the tv
I’m picturing a big screen on the old school TV carts.
I keep mine chained up in the basement when not in use.
To be honest, I recently got a TCL Roku TV and I almost gave up on trying to use it as a dumb TV. I’m not a beginner at this, but setting up a network connection was so embedded in the initial setup, from the moment you turn the TV on. I did a couple factory resets and I could not figure out how to bypass it. Turns out I had to set it to “store display mode” at a certain point and then connect my other streaming device.
Yeah, the Roku OS is REALLY baked in there and REALLY wants your data, and they recently updated it to make it even harder to circumvent. The trick is to just block its connection at the router level.
Oh my god that didn’t even occur to me. Maybe I am a beginner!
Exactly what I did. I’d get a 65" monitor if there was any. But an always offline smart TV will do.
I opened my smart TV and removed the Bluetooth/WiFi PCI card that was inside it.
Good fucking luck connecting to something you privacy invading piece of shit.
chad!
Even then you still have a bunch of cheap hardware crammed into an insufficiently ventilated box that will lead to problems down the line.
My TV is 15 years old, not very smart, thick as oatmeal, but works like a charm.
you don’t have to use the smart bulllshit.
It’s still there, though.
And since it’s usually one integrated board, a failure in the “bullshit” will likely affect the not-shit.
that’s just pure speculation. if they design the boards to cool properly during the warranty period there’s no reason to think they’ll have major issues after that.
Read that statement again and ask yourself, if it really makes sense .
unnecessary disrespectful bullshit.
I’m still rocking a 2011 38" vizio from Costco. Does everything I need, nice and dumb, as a TV should be. A bigger and higher def TV won’t bring me more happiness, so I’ll be sticking with it until it quits and I can’t fix it.
I bought a Roku smart TV 65in like 5 years ago. Light as a feather and never gave me a minutes trouble. Think I paid like $300 for it.
I’m in the same boat, bought a Samsung 40-something-inch smart tv for around $300 maybe 6 years ago off the neglected “small TV” aisle. It has some bloatware, but it’s never been an issue after configuring a few settings. I’m guessing if I went for one of the floor models, it’d have been a problem.
This assumes that the reviewer who gave the rating wasn’t considering value as part of their scoring. I’d expect the reviewer to be scoring a TV based on his good it is compared to similarly priced competitors, not comparing to every other TV on the market
Rtings.com scores do not include price as a factor. Scores are calculated by multiple test results.
The more expensive it is, the more ads and spyware it will have.
What? Cheap TVs are full of this stuff which is partially why they’re so cheap.
They all have it.
I’m not an “imagephile”, my eyes can tell the difference between 4k & 1080p but for a 45 min TV show I couldn’t care less if its in standard def.
We have an HTPC handling all media including TV recrdings so I took a USB with a few media files of differing qualities & tested them on TV’s in the store - no way I’m buying a TV without seeing how it handles everyday stuff that isnt the ridiculous over bright awful motion smoothed in store demo scenes.
I’d never use the “smart” features of a TV, that thing is never going online.
Last 3 TV’s have been Panasonic. One of them was a lower priced set but still fantastic picture. Not the best UI & to be honest a nightmare menu system but excellent panels & no ads or BS in the UI.
The way the tech overlords are heading I’m not looking forward to replacing our set when it eventually needs it
