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| jonovid:
when it comes to the design of TV remotes I could write a whole book about them from an end user's point of view. some key points in question can it be repaired? are the button contacts accessible without destructive disassembly. design TV remotes that are easy to clean. water resistant. a plastic case design that does not have lots of cracks & crevices in it. make it two remotes not just one, when you purchase a new TV or TV consumer entertainment technology if a TV remote is so cheap. why not add or sell a second or spare remote so if the first is lost or damaged beyond repair you still got a working spare remote when the TV or TV product is no longer in production. if this is all too much to ask |O then at least design all the buttons needed on the face of the TV or TV entertainment technology so it will still be functional without a remote. so simple have better more functional button layout design that better reflects today's lifestyle . as to have 3 or 4 AV one button pess auxiliary inputs. the TV channel number buttons are longer the dominant use of buttons, as many TV sets get used as video monitors. so auxiliary inputs need separate buttons one per auxiliary input. if your TV has 4 HDMI inputs then the TV remote should have 4 separate AV-in buttons. ;D the case for better TV remote design on big expensive TV technology. touch if you can see it, feel if you can not. why TV remotes need tactile or raised buttons for use in the dark. why not backlight illumination of rubbery buttons. this type of technology was used on many of the first cell phones that had buttons. most TV remotes live in a dark room . if design has movement detection then the TV remote will light up in the dark if grabbed. finding a lost TV remote? the TV is easy to see , so design a paging button on it. so the remote will beep here I am down the back of the sofa. it's about time TV remotes got a lithium ion battery in its design, as with most other cheap consumer electronics. anything voice activated must have an off button or some of us will be un-plugging the TV or bitching bettys talking cyclops box from the wall. >:D privacy starts with less electronics not more. the life off-line without the phone. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote --- I could write a whole book about them from an end user's point of view. some key points in question can it be repaired? --- End quote --- You're writing from an engineer's, or hobbyist's, point of view. A normal end user's point of view would be: can it be replaced? Your average TV viewer knows nothing of these things and no-one is going to pay the going rate to fix it - just the time taking it apart would cost more than a new one. All they care about, if they even think that far ahead, is that they can get a replacement off Ebay or whatever. |
| Sal Ammoniac:
One thing I didn't like about the Fire TV remote is that it's small and totally black (the white icons on the buttons wore off a long time ago). It's easy to lose in the dark (I have a projector setup in a light-controlled room and the ambient light is very low). Some of my other remotes have glow-in-the-dark buttons, and that makes it easy to find them in the dark when I drop them. |
| Someone:
--- Quote from: tooki on January 14, 2022, 07:33:40 am --- --- Quote from: Someone on January 14, 2022, 03:56:05 am ---higher end TVs do internally already (examples as far back as 25 years at least). Live TV is so compressed through the chain that its unlikely to benefit much, and the decoder/de-interlace is a bigger influence. --- End quote --- Don’t basically all TVs now have motion interpolation? I don’t think I’ve seen any TV larger than 32” without motion interpolation for probably 15 years. --- End quote --- I'm still seeing cheaper TVs that don't advertise any such features, or have any menu options for it (including 4k models). It might be a fixed option thats silently included, but I cant be bothered to get out the test equipment to find out. Always on interpolation, just as bad as none, I like film cadence for what it is. |
| tooki:
Well, if you’ve seen them, I won’t dispute it — I haven’t looked that carefully, I’ll admit! I’m torn on motion interpolation — I really do like it on things like pans and credits, but I also don’t like for everything to look like a daytime soap opera. On my Panasonic plasma, it seems relatively tame, so I leave it on. |
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