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enotnert posted:Also I bought a 43" 1080p TCL for my garage for like $250. rokus are good now
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mishaq posted:rokus are good now i would say "tolerable" instead of "good" but either way im okay with the roku i bought from target
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i set up a $35 roku stick for my mom and it suits her needs
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mishaq posted:i set up a $35 roku stick for my mom and it suits her needs my $35 stick suits your moms needs too
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fart simpson posted:my $35 stick suits your moms needs too appreciate you being a bargain mate, my mom's single and ready to mingle 
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My TV is a projector, it turns itself on when there's a power outage and wants a confirmation to be turned off, but it's fine otherwise (and I fixed those problems with an Arduino + IR sensor + power relay)
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i have never understood why projectors are so consistently special snowflakes in that they need confirmation to turn off. sure, they are not instantaneous to turn back on, but neither is a modern tv
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the only reason i can think of why a projector would turn itself on like that is a lot of them are mounted to a ceiling and plugged into a ceiling outlet so people probably just want to flick a light switch to turn it on i was really surprised at how well my friend's 8 year old $500 infocus 1080p projector handled low-res stuff. the wii (480p) looked amazingly hi-res on it and didn't even look like it was being upscaled. i am not sure of the technical reason behind it.
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Rokus aren't bad, I just don't need one on this tv. The tv in the den in the house has a firestick on it that suits my needs. I've got a projector out in my carport for parties and junk, and for being a $300 woot special (i think it's a benq?) and it's not full 1080p but it does fine enough for its intended usage (getting drunk with buddies and watching movies and grilling). It also has 3d, came with a pair of RF glasses, which we used maybe once just to test it out with pacific rim. Now like most "3d tv stuff" those glasses sit on a shelf collecting dust.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:
i had an early-2000s 4:3 infocus and apparently even back then they were known for using disproportionately high-end scaler chips (faroudja dcdi, wow), which is not a feature you can put on the box to attract walmart shoppers so natch no manufacturer gives a poo poo technical answer: i guess infocus had at least one high-up engineer who gave a poo poo, scaling is a p well solved problem by now so that's all it takes
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Usagi-Sauce posted:i had an early-2000s 4:3 infocus and apparently even back then they were known for using disproportionately high-end scaler chips (faroudja dcdi, wow), which is not a feature you can put on the box to attract walmart shoppers so natch no manufacturer gives a poo poo jesus, i would have never guessed they used good scalers was all. i figured it looked so good it has to be that projection tech isn't affected by low resolution the way TVs are or something it's pretty sad that even the proest of tier TVs (pioneer kuro, panasonic v series, oled) never used great scalers either.
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My teenage nephew went through a period of being obsessed with Youtube tech bloggers and when I'd go round to see my brother he'd always be watching videos of people blogging from setups like this, with conspicuous mics and acoustic foam stuck randomly about. Being a dude into tech he bought a bunch of cheap monitors and lights and whatnot off ebay and built something similar and it was the epitome of 'looks fancy on youtube but is fuckin miserable to actually sit at/use'.
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the internet has killed wisdom since not only are all possible takes available at any time but many of the worst opinions are expressed in slick, entertaining fashion
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qirex posted:the internet has killed wisdom since not only are all possible takes available at any time but many of the worst opinions are expressed in slick, entertaining fashion Don't sign your posts!
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i have a curved wife
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:i have never understood why projectors are so consistently special snowflakes in that they need confirmation to turn off. sure, they are not instantaneous to turn back on, but neither is a modern tv I've heard it has to do with the bulbs. That turning the projector back on once the bulb has started to cool can dramatically shorten bulb life.
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I haven't owned a projector in like 8 years tho so maybe they're all LED bulbs now and it's just stupid vestigial behavior.
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I prefer a tv that can be seen during the daytime.
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Oae Ui posted:I've heard it has to do with the bulbs. That turning the projector back on once the bulb has started to cool can dramatically shorten bulb life. oh, yeah, that makes a lot of sense actually, i don't think projector bulbs have actually changed much either. i withdraw my ignorant questioning of projector engineers
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my parents got a new projector recently and it shows fine even during summer daytime. mine is an old piece of crap that requires the room entirely dark idk what brand they have cause lol at caring about anything
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I bought a 55" lg oled tv a month ago and its pretty amazing but was was more expensive than anything else by a mile. massive upgrade over the lovely 60" dlp tv i had before it that i had gotten 10 years ago. also lol that they sell some curved versions of them
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:i have never understood why projectors are so consistently special snowflakes in that they need confirmation to turn off. sure, they are not instantaneous to turn back on, but neither is a modern tv They need to make sure you're not bumping the power button by accident because once its off, the bulb literally cannot power on until it cools down again. you can get LED-powered models for a surprisingly small premium, they're just gonna be somewhat dimmer (LG makes one for $800 these days). Some high-end models are lazer-based and are super-rad because you don't need to focus them, just aim them at even a curved surface and it'll be perfectly in focus.
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Do any of the good brands (Sony and no wait just Sony) make non-internet TVs anymore?
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carry on then posted:ars has had it kinda rough though, losing good in depth writers like stokes and siracusa while only managing to pick up a couple verge-style clickbait writers and ron "six monitors to review phones" amadeo lmao
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Citizen Tayne posted:OLED sucks. no u
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Citizen Tayne posted:OLED sucks. correct
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how is this thread still going. did nilay show up to defend his bracelet
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Minnesota Mixup posted:I bought a 55" lg oled tv a month ago and its pretty amazing but was was more expensive than anything else by a mile. massive upgrade over the lovely 60" dlp tv i had before it that i had gotten 10 years ago. also lol that they sell some curved versions of them i bought a curved one because it was like 25% cheaper than flat. its not that curved (is what i keep telling myself while weeping and shouting im not owned. im not owned)
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Jerry Cotton posted:Do any of the good brands (Sony and no wait just Sony) make non-internet TVs anymore?
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Endless Mike posted:not really. Shame. It's all redundant for most people.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Do any of the good brands (Sony and no wait just Sony) make non-internet TVs anymore? I've got bad news for you, Sony isn't a good brand anymore. they use google tv and it's awful and also their scaling and smoothing software is lousy. also, no. there's basically two types of TVs. "dumb" tvs, which is a race to the bottom in costs, so everyone tries to make them as cheap as possible. "smart" tvs that actually have margins so they can put some engineering and good hardware into it. if you want a non-terrible tv you have to buy the smart one, even if you don't want any of those features.
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just dont buy a tv imo
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just don't give ur tv ur wifi password problem solved
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never connect your tv to the internet. and never ever do a firmware update to it.
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Endless Mike posted:not really. i have a sony android tv entered a crash loop that could only be fixed by a factory reset honestly i blame google, the tv is good outside the android parts
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i mean, yeah, android is bad, though i haven't had much trouble with mine
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carry on then posted:i have a sony Someone had their LG smart tv taken over with ransomware and LG wanted $340 for a repairman to enter a factory reset code.
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