Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On

• brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most remote design is honestly atrocious. Somehow they keep hiding “source” in random spots, when it should be one of the most important buttons. The obscure pictograms are all over the place, and most buttons will never be used by anyone.

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  • Peffse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One of my favorite remotes had the sources split across the top. Composite, Component, VGA, HDMI. And if you hit the button twice it’d cycle through the different ports of that type.

    Never found a remote like that again. Now they just throw a menu to slowly browse through.

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    • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My parent’s TV is absolutely atrocious, and the source menu is a big part of it.

      It doesn’t show sources that have not sent any input. So when trying to get the Switch on it, I’d need to start the console first, then push the source button… and the menu is so slow to appear that the Switch has gone back to sleep mode before I can reach it…

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    • Flisty@mstdn.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @Peffse @brsrklf our ancient Blaupunkt has a variant of this: https://interlook.eu/product-eng-3115-Universal-remote-control-for-BLAUPUNKT-TV-TV-support-SMART.html

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    • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      God how can those tv menus be so slow… do they call home on every press of a button?? Infuriating

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      • Mondez@lemdro.id ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They run their own full OS these days on under powered SoCs to cut costs. All so they can claim to be a “smart” TV until of course the flow of updates stops a year after manufacture and all the apps stop working. Then it’s back to being dumb as well as being a massive security hole on your network.

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  • demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s even worse when your remote is covered with buttons to Netflix, YouTube, Prime and other random bullshit streaming services. I physically removed two rows of buttons from the remote of the TV I bought last year, after accidentally pushing some of them too many times

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