TELEVISIONS ARE JUST SCREENS
they dont need to be smart
make them dumb
make everything dumb immediately
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TELEVISIONS ARE JUST SCREENS 23 comments
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@dangoodin @MisterMoo @SarraceniaWilds DVDs and Blu-Rays, VHS tapes and LaserDiscs. Or build a Plex or Jellyfin server and make a Kodi or OSMC box, connect the two, and build your own library. Need media? Reject modernity; embrace tradition! :pirate_flag:
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My Jellyfin server has way more content I want to watch at this point than any streaming service since it contains... exclusively content that I want to watch.
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@lordbowlich @dangoodin @MisterMoo @SarraceniaWilds And that's the best part. You make your own server with what you want, especially considering how so many streaming services keep yanking content at the worst times, dooming a lot of shows and movies to obscurity.
Mister Moo 🐮
@dangoodin @LambdaCalculus @SarraceniaWilds I don't care for the advertising practices of smart TV vendors (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/3/10/22323790/lg-oled-tv-commercials-content-store), nor do I care to use apps built into my TV which will gradually get slower and lose compatibility over time, nor do I appreciate remote controls themselves being turned into ads for streaming providers. That doesn't mean I don't stream. I'm just more conscientious about what devices I use to stream.
WhiteCatTamer
@SarraceniaWilds @dangoodin @MisterMoo @LambdaCalculus Do you have a SmartSokk (TM) you can clean up with?
Dan Goodin
@MisterMoo @LambdaCalculus @SarraceniaWilds Let me guess: you use a Roku because you think it's safer than a smart TV?
Rick O
@dangoodin @MisterMoo @SarraceniaWilds you hook up the tv to a device you have more control over and stream from there m
MrBadAxe
I feel like someone could make bank with a Kickstarter whose pitch is, "It's a 55-inch 4K 120Hz screen with 4 HDMI-In's and the most barebones firmware possible. Oh, you want Netflix? Go buy a used PS4. They're, what, $100 these days?"
derHinek
@SarraceniaWilds I agree that smart TVs are a shit show, but saying that TVs are only screens is incorrect. What made them TVs is that they have a tuner to receive what they display, hence the name television (also speakers might be good). One could argue, that today a capability to receive a stream via the internet is just the modern way of a receiver.
Aaron Longchamps
@SarraceniaWilds agreed! I don't connect my TV to the network and stream everything on an Apple TV. |
@SarraceniaWilds I've never allowed a television to connect to the internet and I never will.