Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get?
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 14 hours ago
The Dell P5524Q is a 55" conference room monitor. It has no built-in wifi, microphones, camera, or other smart tv bullshit, it’s just a big monitor. It just turns on when you turn it on and turns off when you turn it off - it doesn’t take 5 minutes to boot up because of the shitty low-grade computer hardware built into it. You can find them on eBay in the US$900 range.
njm1314@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
900 for a 55 in TV seems really high doesn’t it?
Fondots@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Almost 2 decades ago I paid close to that for a 50" plasma TV as one of my first big purchases after I got my first job.
Of course this isn’t a direct 1:1 comparison, they’re different display technologies, TVs these days have a 4k if not 8k resolution when that one I bought was 720p, there’s been almost 20 years of advancement driving costs down, and 20 years of inflation driving them up, etc.
So I don’t even know where to begin trying to fairly compare the relative costs of those 2 TVs
But back then tv manufacturers also weren’t getting paid to include apps, and put a button on their remotes to launch Amazon prime, or show me ads, or anything of the sort. Their only revenue stream was me buying the tv.
njm1314@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Well you can get a smart TV of that size for $300 or less. Which you can always just not hook up to the Internet, stuff to do with a crappy operating system but I don’t think that’s worth $600. Also elsewhere in this thread there’s a link to a Samsung non-smart TV of that size for 600 so I really think 900 is too much.