Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I just want a straight up monitor with no built in wifi or Bluetooth or even speakers.

  Just display the image I want it to when I want it to.

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  • galaxy_nova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Literally this. Let me use my own fucking box and my own goddamn pc how I want with big monitor. Also put DP on it fuck HDMI. I don’t need trackers in my bloody tv OS. My tv has an OS!!! That’s ridiculous. Sorry this is one of those things I’ve always been super pissed about.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sceptre

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    • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      For real, all my TVs are Sceptre. They are not easy to find, but they are incredibly reasonably priced and completely dumb perfection.

      If people like us make them popular enough, maybe they’ll realize this is a lucrative niche market.

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  • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I use old dumb tvs as monitors. They don’t have the best picture, but are better and cheaper than anything currently for sale.

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  • riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Every modern monitor has some memory in it. They have timing controllers and image processing chips that need DRAM to function. Not much, but it is standard DDR3/DDR4 or LPDDR RAM.

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• YourAvgMortal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But how will they play ads‽

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• Tim_Bisley@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Man I’m really dreading buying a new TV. Been going strong with my plasma for years. I don’t need any “smart” features in a tv. From what I understand you either get a good TV or a “dumb” TV, pick one.

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  • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But a good tv, and don’t connect it to the internet. Apple TV or Shield device.

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    • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      televisions of the near future when you first turn them on: “Internet connection and account required to complete initial product set up.”

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      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I would immediately return that as defective. I’d rather use that old 1980’s portable TV that’s been collecting dust in my closet since they shut down the analog TV broadcasts.

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      • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        These already exist. I’ve also seen some that technically work but have pop-ups complaining about being offline.

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      • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        My TV channels now come in through an app and just recently it started working on my Nvidia shield, still I can’t really disconnect the net from my samsung tv because explaining to my father how to use the tv app is already hard, he would not handle using it through the nvidia shield.

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  • chillpanzee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, pretty much. Any decent display on a TV is gonna have all the shit you don’t want, but you can (at least for now) just not connect your smart TV to the internet. You;'d have a good TV with the “smarts” neutered. But you’re still paying for it.

    It’s a bit like the ATSC broadcast stack. You likely aren’t using it, but the industry still makes you pay for it (and it’s not cheap).

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Dumbtv

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• ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Linear components like power amplifiers are made from the same material as digital circuitry, and they use a lot more of it.

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