The use of a smart TV is to make manufacturers money by selling your personal data to advertisers as part of their post purchase monetisation strategy. Literally admitted by Vizio’s CEO (who are really following other brands).
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Chainweasel@lemmy.world 8 months agoExactly, what’s the use of a smart TV when I have a game console capable of streaming everything a “Smart TV” can AND playing games/browsing the Web?
9/10 times people use a fire stick or cable box to watch TV anyway, all I need is volume, input selection, and power.
Meron35@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I meant they used to me, I understand their use for it.
Meron35@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You get a cheaper TV. Just disable all their smart features.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You need that “smart” stuff to make smaller resolutions look good on a 4k TV.
Upscaling takes processing power, so adding in the smart functions doesn’t really need anything else.
Without the upscaling, it’s often a waste to buy a 4k TV because very few sources are in 4k. You’d be getting the same picture quality as 1080
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I have a 4K dumb TV with no Wi-Fi at all and I’ve never had any image issues.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What does wifi have to do with anything?
And if it upscaled well, it’s already got the processing power to have all the apps installed. So, cool it doesn’t have that, but it’s kind of a waste you don’t… And seems a lot more likely you’re overestimating it.
But I have a feeling if you look up your TV on rtings you’ll be surprised, or find out you bought a weird Black Friday model that’s been feature stripped to be as cheap and low quality as possible while marking a couple highlights to advertise on the box.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
you dont need to shove “smart” features into them to habe upscaling
any dumb computer monitor has it
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
?
I googled, and found one high-end monitor with any kind of native upscaling…
And saying something that is on the most expensive monitors has to be on the cheapest TVs doesn’t make a lot of sense…
And that’s not even getting into what kind of upscaling or how a bigger screen size makes upscaling more important.
Like a 22 inch it doesn’t matter, but an 80 it’s really important