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| AaronLee:
--- Quote from: Ranayna on September 09, 2021, 07:53:27 am --- --- Quote from: Simon on September 09, 2021, 07:17:27 am ---Why people don't like connecting a TV to the internet I don't know, it's just another computer like the one on your desk or in your pocket. --- End quote --- Because most of the time it is a quite crappy, often outdated and slow computer, whose main purpose seems to be displaying ads. My current TV is now i think more than 15 years old. Not even Full HD, but also no smarts in sight. I honestly dread the day it dies, while i would appreciate a higher resolution screen, i do not want to have to deal with a smart TV. --- End quote --- Do you mean they don't sell non-smart TVs anymore? I wouldn't know because I'm with Simon, and I don't even own a TV nor have researched the current TV market for a very long time. TVs don't make for good computer monitors, so the only TV-like devices I buy are real computer monitors. |
| eti:
Samsung have been investigated for watching people in their homes via the internal camera on some of their TVs. Yeah so no privacy issues there hey. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Blissful to live in ignorance. |
| Ranayna:
--- Quote from: AaronLee on September 09, 2021, 08:08:41 am ---Do you mean they don't sell non-smart TVs anymore? I wouldn't know because I'm with Simon, and I don't even own a TV nor have researched the current TV market for a very long time. TVs don't make for good computer monitors, so the only TV-like devices I buy are real computer monitors. --- End quote --- If a TV for you has some kind of integrated tuner, then no, i do not think that many non-smart TVs are made anymore. At least not in the common consumer brands. If you can live with an external device to provide signal, then indeed monitors are a decent substitution, but those get expensive when you want large sizes and stuff like OLED screens. Other than that, there are sometimes also Devices like Information Displays though. Many of these use TV panels, but lack all the smarts. Paradoxically, these are sometimes more expensive than the equivalent TV :D |
| AaronLee:
--- Quote from: eti on September 09, 2021, 05:54:23 am ---As for anyone referring to R/Pi as a "solution" for streaming - lest we forget that about 0.0000000001% of ACTUAL consumers would do that - let's not make obscure comparisons to reality. --- End quote --- Perhaps math isn't your strong suit. 0.0000000001% of the world population is 0.008 persons, with the number of actual consumers naturally being even less than that. So a total impossibility to even consider that. And yes, I understand the concept of an exaggeration, but making up a number like that is way beyond the point of being just an exaggeration, to the point of being ridiculously absurd, especially when you're talking about "reality". |
| AaronLee:
--- Quote from: eti on September 09, 2021, 08:35:58 am ---Samsung have been investigated for watching people in their homes via the internal camera on some of their TVs. Yeah so no privacy issues there hey. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Blissful to live in ignorance. --- End quote --- Link please. I did a search and found some reports of data being sent from their TVs, but nothing about video from the internal camera, which would be a whole other level. |
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