They cost like 5x more because they’re marketed toward businesses. samsung.com/…/65-bht-series-qled-4k-uhd-hdr-pro-t…
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slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Instead of buying a TV, look for a digital signage display. It’s a TV, but with none of the “smart” crap on it.
Alternatively, just don’t hook your device up to the internet.
shasta@lemm.ee 1 day ago
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Sceptre is the GOAT. I’ve got a 4k dumb panel for cheap during Black Friday a year or two back. It’s fantastic. No WiFi on it (because it is a dumb TV) but a streaming device like nVidia Shield is perfect.
dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
My understanding is that TV prices are subsidized by bloatware. No bloatware, no subsidy.
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
If they were, they should be free. Yet there’s still triple and quad digit prices on these things that probably cost like 8% of that to build (because of slave labor probably), and the subsidy on top should mean they’re literally paying us monthly to have their screen.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Plus side there though… Like most devices marketed towards enterprise, once they hit the used market, the price drops dramatically. You can get a pretty good deal on a used one.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
They are also capable of running 24/7 without ever overheating, no matter the location. And have extra software specialized for signage.
It isn’t just a marketing gimmick.
shasta@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
Yeah sounds perfect for my living room. I’ll definitely pay an extra $3k for those features.
Recommending digital signage for personal TVs is still a bad recommendation.
notthebees@reddthat.com 1 day ago
There’s other business oriented tvs that aren’t just for signage. It’s more for conference rooms.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 11 hours ago
I’ve seen this advice over and over and I have to ask: does it really compare? Gaming for me is all about frame rate, and no I’m not a competitive gamer or anything. What’s the response time on those “digital signage” models designed to show static good menus 24/7 for a decade. I’m sure they don’t have a “game mode”, what’s the refresh rate? If you’re going to literally pay more for a display sold to corporations, these need to be considered. Personally, I got a good TV and just never connected it to the Internet…
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
Or just don’t buy Samsung. Never had this kind of trouble with any other brand except Samsung. Because of this, I’ll never ever buy another Samsung product.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
The smart stuff isn’t the issue. It is all the connected shit.
There are plenty of smart TVs that you just don’t have to connect to the internet. Then it can’t download ads, be laggy or reboot because of updates, send all your data to the manufacturer, …
Just connect a small PC over HDMI like you would a dumb TV, and other than the slow boot it will work the same.
I can recommend TLC as a TV that doesn’t require an internet connection. But I would steer clear of ever connecting it to a network, the remotes have microphones in them.
lud@lemm.ee 2 days ago
My Samsung tv also has microphones for voice control.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yes, that is most likely what they were designed for.
But I wouldn’t trust these brands to not misuse them for other things.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
There are plenty of smart TVs that you just don’t have to connect to the internet
AFAIK many of them will continue to nag you to connect them to the Internet if you don’t do it. Those nags can be just as bad as ads.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yes, just don’t buy those brands.
TVs are a minefield, but one that can be navigated.
merc@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
How does one do that? Which brands are dangerous?
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Take a crayon, jam it in the pinhole for the mic, then scrape the excess off the surface. Problem solved.
renzev@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is good advice, but I really wish we lived in a world where consumers could bond together and get laws passed that make this type of crap illegal so that buying TV’s (or any type of appliance for that matter) didn’t involve having to do research on weird non-consumer hardware just to have a nice experience.
grue@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In other words, you wish we lived in a democracy instead of a plutocracy. 'Cause that’s exactly how it’s supposed to work. This thread is squarely about the FTC failing to do its goddamn job, because this should not be legal.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We can you idiots just keep voting Republican
Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Also commas
Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Consumer rights is a bipartisan issue, Dems fuck us over too.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 day ago
This kind of fucking attitude is why Dems always have sand in their potato salad. "This wouldn’t happen if democrats never lost an election :( " Miss me with that shit. Trump is talking about using military force to annex Panama and Greenland and making Canada the 51st state and you’ve got online Democrats sitting in the corner timidly and indirectly suggesting that maybe ads wouldn’t be so bad under them. The Democratic party deserves to get bullied until they grow a spine and start giving people a real reason to vote for them besides “republicans bad”. Call me when we get AOC hopped up on barely sub-lethal amounts of cocaine and she bites Gavin Newsom’s head off like a praying mantis.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Are you sure. Maybe if we lean in a little further right these “moderates” who are considering authoritarian rule might just change their mind.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 day ago
Just look at the printer situation. It’s gonna get worse. Much worse.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
As long as brother b&w laser printers are still not enshittified, everything’s right in the printer world.
figjam@midwest.social 1 day ago
Books it is then
MadBob@feddit.nl 1 day ago
We do have that in other countries (so in this world), and you’re going to laugh, but the Dutch one is literally called the Consumentenbond.