Consoles tend to have higher power draw than a lot of simple devices. Depends on how much you care about environmental power savings or power bills.
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RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 6 months agoWhat’s the practical difference between using a console and a smart TV?
Katana314@lemmy.world 6 months ago
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
The UI is better and not as slow as on smart TVs from what I’ve heard. Plus you can play games on the console and watch DVDs and Blurays if that’s your thing. Apart from that, not much.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is true, because smart TVs have shitty processors, and consoles do not. Consoles are made for media, smart TVs have shitty embedded software on slow hardware, comparative.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Sony famously pushed DVDs into the mainstream and won a generation of console wars by building a pretty good DVD player into the PS2 which also happened to cost not much more than most DVD players did at the time
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 6 months ago
PS2 is STILL my only DVD player. Why fix what ain’t broken?
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
They also track you less. They still track you, but it isn’t even close to what a smart TV does.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Good point, thanks