• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    8 months ago

    Most of them are dead to me. Sell me a dumb TV or sell me nothing.

    My last two purchases were a 32" PC monitor for the guest room and a projector for the main room. Both connected to a Roku and media center PC.

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      8 months ago

      I’ve got an order out for a digital signage display to replace my living room tv. It was more than I would’ve spent on a “smart” tv but it’s a dumb box that I can plug anything I want into. If they sold dumb TV’s still I’d probably upgrade some of the other TV’s my family has, but fuck smart TV’s.

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          8 months ago

          Sharp NEC is the brand I bought from. They have models you can put a raspberry pi directly inside of it. I’ve got a pi with librelec waiting for the screen to show up. However they’re really expensive. Sceptre makes more affordable dumb TV’s but they don’t make very large ones.

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        8 months ago

        I heard the color accuracy and gamut on these signage displays are terrible. Know if there’s any reviews out there with this kinda info?

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          8 months ago

          How do they compare to TVs? At least the last time I looked into it, pretty much every TV was terrible compared to even a halfway decent computer monitor.

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            8 months ago

            OLED TVs are insanely good and spoiled using the computer altogether for me, until I got an OLED monitor. At least on my LG B2, the color gamut and contrast are extremely good. I can’t stand LCDs for anything dark as the backlight bleed really washes out the picture.

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          8 months ago

          The 85 inch display I’ve got coming is listed as 4k HDR with full array local dimming. As far as actual accuracy is concerned, I’ve heard good things about Sharp NEC specifically but I won’t know until my unit eventually arrives.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t own one, but even if I did, I sure as hell would not want a smart television. So I completely agree with you.

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      8 months ago

      Amen. Monitors, digital signage and, as you said, business projectors are the way. CEC, auto input switching and ARC are all the smarts I want in a TV.

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        8 months ago

        If you’re willing to pay up, there’s some amazing new laser projectors that can be placed just a few inches from the wall, so basically where your TV would sit, and are super bright. I saw some YouTube videos about some models from LG. They cost 2k or more depending on the model.

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          8 months ago

          Oh pricy! That sounds amazing though, I’ll look into it

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            8 months ago

            Yup. I’m hoping the prices do down at least 50% before i even consider one, but I’ll be watching this space.