Sceptre makes a decent dumb tv.
I have one. I like it. 4k. Good enough for me.
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synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My current TV has started to die. It’s developing a purple spot that starts to be very distracting. I am not excited about researching a new model that doesn’t pull out this kind a shit on me. I don’t intend to ever connect it to the Internet. My current TV is nothing more than a big display for my NVIDIA shield TV and the next one will be the same.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 day ago
zod000@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I got their 1080p 43" “dumb” model for $150 not too long ago. I wouldn’t choose it for my main living room TV, but it is perfectly fine for what I needed it for and they can’t retroactively make it worse like the Roku tv it replaced.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think mine was around 300 and is 47”. I don’t watch a lot of tv, it’s mostly there for the kids. The 4k picture looks amazing when I do use it. I do most of my gaming on my Steam Deck and I dock that to a 720p Samsung I’ve had for 18 years now (Was very high end when I got it). It is good enough for me.
I’m about to inherit my daughter’s gaming laptop and I’ll plug that in the bedroom and be happy with it too.
zod000@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
$300 isn’t too bad of a price for a 47" 4K where they aren’t getting extra money from your data and ads. I went for the 1080p model because at the distance we sit at it was impossible to tell the difference based on the 4K Roku TV is replaced.
eluvatar@programming.dev 1 day ago
This is where I would go to research a new tv www.rtings.com
qx128@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Check out “commercial” TVs. These are TVs for businesses (e.g. displaying a menu at a restaurant). They typically don’t have the “smart” features. You have to look for them specifically.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 day ago
No, they are NOT tvs! The difference is that the display panels are to slow for fast action scenes or any kind of scene switch, that’s why they only show a set of static images on rotation.
1371113@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
There are plenty of panels that are 60hz+ with decent g2g in the display panel space. My company sells them sometimes so i just ordered from there for my current tv. 65 inch. LED. 5 year warranty. Just a panel. No smart anything. It’s fine for sports, at least cricket and basketball which is what I watch.
Master@lemm.ee 1 day ago
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 1 day ago
This looked really promising but it seems like they only have HDMI 2.0 or lower? Some don’t list the version at all. Unfortunately HDMI 2.1 or better is kind of required in 2025.
x00z@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve been wanting a Sceptre for a long time but they are hard to find in Europe.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Interesting! I’ll have to see if I can find one to a good price in Germany. Thanks for sharing.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Doesn’t the Shield use Google Android? That box is also spying on you.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes it does. A significant portion of the traffic gets caught by pinhole. I haven’t taken the time of rooting it so far. But with an alternative launcher, SmartTube and Jellyfin, I have a completely ads free watching experience :)
Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 day ago
pretty sure it can be rooted + degoogled.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The Nvidia shield ships with the exact same OS as many of these smart TVs
Evotech@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s still better. It uses stock android base. So normal play store.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fair enough, but this setup won’t display an ad on top of my game console feed, like shown above. No guarantee a brand new Android TV won’t start doing this after, could even start doing this after a firmware update.
FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When I bought my Sony TV from Costco, it let me skip all of the agreements and sign-ups and accounts the day that I bought it. Fast forward a few months later after the return window was over, I turned it on one day and I had to agree to all the different things and it started asking me for an account, if I recall.
I will never buy another smart TV ever in my life.
fuzzzerd@programming.dev 1 day ago
Its pretty hard to avoid at this point if you want anything larger than a big computer monitor or a refresh rate above 60hz.
hactar42@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
I bought a 70" TV back in 2015 and it worked great until a couple of months ago when the screen suddenly went black. No amount of resetting or messing with it would fix it. Ended up ordering a new main board for around $125. Installed the new board and the TV works again. In fact I’m convinced the picture actually looks better.
During my research I found a lot of information about LED TVs. They basically only have 4 parts. A main board, LED backlight, LCD controller, and T Con board. From what I heard purple screens are often a cause of bad cables or the T-Con board. They are not complex, so if you are comfortable removing the back and messing with ribbon cables, then you can easily replace any part. Just try searching your model number on YouTube.
If you do go this route beware, there are a lot of places that say they have the boards, but they’re really just a repair service. I was able to find a replacement board at shortcircuitsolution.com.