My 2013 Highest End Samsung was pretty much E-Waste three years later. 80% of the Apps broken, no new Apps for new services.
UTTER BULLSHIT.
I plugged in a FireTV 4k which was on Sale for €25. Perfectly supported since many years. TONS of software, channels and so on. Best buy ever.
When I had to buy a new TV for my bed room I bought a “dump” monitor and plugged a FireTV in.
I’ve got a TCL smart TV from like 5 years ago. It’s absolutely great. Never had any issues with overbearing ads or anything.
Thank fuck.
Why the hell would I connect my TV to the internet? It’s a display device.
You will take my Display Port/HDMI/RCA input and like it.
I was thinking about getting a blu ray player. Cheap models are not technically advanced, more expensive models come with smart tv features that I couldn’t care less about. I decided that it’d be easier to pirate. What happened to the single responsibility principle?
The “Smart devices” on my Blu Ray player had me give up on sitting down to directly watch a DVD. My stupid player constantly needed to update or download the latest commercials before it could play anything. It drove me to throwing it out and getting a PC hooked up to my TV which was great for years there. I then went with Smart TVs and a FireCube but I’m back to wanting to connect a PC to my TV again.
Today, the single responsibility of any device is to show you a shit ton of ads…
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Luckily not everyone has a gun fetish
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The slide is metal, as is the barrel. These are the parts of the gun that would be pressed up against the temple if someone intended to shoot you.
If someone was just rubbing your face with the body of a glock you would have a point, but that not exactly how the aphorism “a gun to my head” goes.
The slide is metal.
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The barrel is metal. The phrase makes sense even with your exception. Besides, polymer uppers are less popular than metal ones anyways.
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Found the American. It’s me. I thought that was an interesting fact. Thanks.
My solution: Buy a very large monitor.
Then connect some streaming box to it you can easily replace if/when it gets shitty, instead of having to replace the whole TV.
No Vizio or Samsung.
I got a Sony and I’m glad I did. It seems to do what a smart TV should do. The apps I use are first, the shows I’m watching are suggested. It works seamlessly over HDMI with all my other hardware (sound bar, Blu-ray, consoles). They took the beautiful LG OLED display and made it look even better. It has a super minimalistic style, the android OS is unobtrusive, and the remote feels nice in the hand.
I’ve had a Vizio “smart” TV for about 3 years. It is my first experience with a smart TV and it has been a massive pile of shit since day one. Most recently it has decided to show a black screen every time I turn on the Nintendo Switch. In this state it does not allow me to do anything but turn it off. So I have to turn it off, turn it back on, go into settings and restart the TV. It will then work for a single play session, but as soon as I shut the Switch off I will undoubtedly have to go through this same process the next time I want to play.
This is only the most recent issue I’ve had with Vizio’s garbage ass software. To those saying to just unplug it from the internet, trust me when I say the solution is not that simple. It was even worse before any updates, but with each update they break something else. There is no “good” software version to leave it at.
Does his TV also lack HDMI inputs…? I have Smart TV’s, and they’ve never once been connected to my network.
Amen, brotha.
I bought a little antenna DVR box and it’s absolutely delightful. it has the interface of a 2000s VCR, doesn’t connect to the internet, doesn’t have little ads and promo screens anywhere, has a simple plug and play DVR that records drm free mp4s to any USB device I plug in, and just stays on doing what it’s doing, no shitty little
we noticed you haven't hit a button in 2 hours!screen. i feel like I’m in a nursing home. it’s beautifulProbably a controversial thing to say but I think a TV could be pretty good by connecting to Internet and run a Internet browser ideally Firefox but no that would hurt the ad revenue on a product I payed full price for it’s like buying a car and finding mc Donald’s ad in the glove compartment and that’s putting it quite lightly
Is it one of those devices that gives you like a little tv guide for the antenna channels and allows recording stuff from them? I’ve kinda thought about getting one of those, but then I remember I don’t watch that much regular tv anymore. 😅
I love the way my TV turns itself on in the middle of the night on a random channel at full volume.
I would honestly love to try switching to an alternative than continue using Fire OS on my Insignia TV, but I don’t know of any good alternatives. Maybe I just haven’t dug deep enough, but most “3rd party” (not Amazon or Google) Android implementations seem to only support phones, not TVs.
Fortunately, Fire TV can still install apps from outside their app store (like SmartTubeNext), but that can only do so much.
Bloatware, adware and over reliance on software/complex electronics has ruined a lot of the experience with consumer electronics. Almost everything is festooned with half assed processing units for relatively pointless non-sense. Some of its useful, much of it over or under built. I think we have a big market correction on the horizon, it’s currently over saturated with marginally useful junk and a definite market exists for upgraded simple electronics.
