Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching

mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This really seems to be the right answer. At least while computer monitors stay dumb.

  Get one of those tiny PCs that you can just leave behind the TV, get a wireless mouse and keyboard too.

  Nothing on TV isn’t available online anyway. Paying the cable company for anything more than an Internet connection seems like setting money on fire to me. Maybe sports would be difficult, but that can literally be found if you know what you’re doing. Even games you wouldn’t be able to with TV.

  Cable TV just seems to me like a boomer’s version of the Internet. It has no place in a world with the Internet, change my mind. The ads on TV are worse than what you find on any popular website/app.

  But as usual, capitalism is messing everything up with the marketing. In a world where hi speed Internet is widely available, “TV” just has no use. None. And worse, the commercials are now leaking through your literal screen.

  I’m not saying that ads aren’t a problem, but there’s a hell of a lot more you can do about them.

  In a perfect world, there would be a place you could go whenever you wanted something and find products and solutions for that thing, and there wouldn’t be ads in anything else at all.

  But until there’s an actual argument to say TV technology isn’t totally worthless, my stance is simply “no TVs are necessary or useful”.

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You can get little combined keyboard/track pads for $20-30. They’re the same size as a remote, usually rechargeable, and kind of a pain to type on… But perfect for typing in the name of what you’re searching for

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    • JokklMaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can you link what you’re talking about?

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      • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        something like this

        There’s a lot of variations, most of them are kinda crappy and they might last a few months or for years, you never really know. This one looks very similar to the one that has lasted the longest for me

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    • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah I leave it at my brother’s house for our weekly movie and TV day, and he had them already so I didn’t spend more than like 15 minutes looking at those.

      But it’s on the back burner for a QoL update like that.

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t like sound bars, you can take my old 5.1 Yamaha system out from my cold hands!

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  • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I still use the 5.1 system I got with my first computer in '04.

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• Rednax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Or a beamer if you want a big screen.

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