Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs
Peffse@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I don’t know if it changed, but when I started looking around to replace my set about 2 years ago, it was a nightmare of marketing "gotcha"s.
Some TVs were advertising 240fps, but only had 60fps panels with special tricks to double framerate twice or something silly. Other TVs offered 120fps, but only on one HDMI port. More TVs wouldn’t work without internet. Even more had shoddy UIs that were confusing to navigate and did stuff like default to their own proprietary software showing Fox News on every boot (Samsung). I gave up when I found out that most of them had abysmal latency since they all had crappy software running that messed with color values for no reason. So I just went and bought the cheapest TV at a bargain overstock store. Days of shopping time wasted, and a customer lost.
If I were shown something that advertised with 8K at that point, I’d have laughed and said it was obviously a marketing lie like everything else I encountered.
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Asus makes their version of a 4k OLED LG panel with no shitty ‘smart’ software.
vikingtons@lemmy.world 4 days ago
in that situation, Asus are the shitty part.
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Did I miss something with Asus recently? I’ve only had good experiences with their hardware.
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
ASUS used to be the goat brand. They have since enshittified, and the biggest hit was their customer service. It’s 100% ass now. The product itself is really hit or miss now too.
vikingtons@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’ll consider you lucky. I’ve had many experiences with their hardware across different segments (phones, tablets, laptops, mainbaords, NICs, displays, GPUs).
They’re an atrocious vendor with extremely poor customer support (and shitty SW practicies for UMA systems and motherboards).
I don’t think many people have been as unfortunate as I have with them, the general consensus is they mark their products up considerably relative to competition (particularly mainboards & GPUs).
To be fair, their contemporaries arent much butter.