• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    9 months ago

    Most of them are dead to me. Sell me a dumb TV or sell me nothing.

    My last two purchases were a 32" PC monitor for the guest room and a projector for the main room. Both connected to a Roku and media center PC.

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      9 months ago

      I’ve got an order out for a digital signage display to replace my living room tv. It was more than I would’ve spent on a “smart” tv but it’s a dumb box that I can plug anything I want into. If they sold dumb TV’s still I’d probably upgrade some of the other TV’s my family has, but fuck smart TV’s.

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        9 months ago

        I heard the color accuracy and gamut on these signage displays are terrible. Know if there’s any reviews out there with this kinda info?

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          9 months ago

          How do they compare to TVs? At least the last time I looked into it, pretty much every TV was terrible compared to even a halfway decent computer monitor.

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            9 months ago

            OLED TVs are insanely good and spoiled using the computer altogether for me, until I got an OLED monitor. At least on my LG B2, the color gamut and contrast are extremely good. I can’t stand LCDs for anything dark as the backlight bleed really washes out the picture.

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        9 months ago

        If you’re willing to pay up, there’s some amazing new laser projectors that can be placed just a few inches from the wall, so basically where your TV would sit, and are super bright. I saw some YouTube videos about some models from LG. They cost 2k or more depending on the model.

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          9 months ago

          Oh pricy! That sounds amazing though, I’ll look into it

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            9 months ago

            Yup. I’m hoping the prices do down at least 50% before i even consider one, but I’ll be watching this space.

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      9 months ago

      Amen. Monitors, digital signage and, as you said, business projectors are the way. CEC, auto input switching and ARC are all the smarts I want in a TV.