Are smart TVs a meme?
What can they do that a normal tv + Roku/firestick/whatever can’t?
Are smart TVs a meme?
Sebastian Williams
Thomas Allen
Watch you 24/7
Landon Watson
do these things with a single default remote
Carson Williams
do things without a roku/firestick/whatever
Owen Anderson
its hard to find a dumb TV that meets my standards for input lag and other vidya nerd shit like that. my previous sony was a fantastic TV for gaming but took 20-30 seconds to start because of app shit.
current samsung is a bit better at 15 seconds
Justin Lee
Do the same stuff as a roku using the TV's remote while being laggy and having shitty wifi that cant keep up with HD streams built in.
Fucking tested this on multiple TVs in multiple house including my time working at Microcenter.
Only some of the new ones are decent but I imagine they put weaker SoCs than what is in your typical roku or such.
Landon Sanchez
Smart TV's are the ultimate meme.
Levi Adams
/thread
Joshua Myers
it's a matter of convenience, not everybody wants to fuck around with 2+ remotes. Also non-smart tvs are pretty bad these days
Ian Taylor
FPBP
Joseph Miller
If I'm not a princess about quality/muh blacks/refresh rates is this a bad tv?
walmart.com
Eli Ortiz
SmartTV are a bad purchase
>slow, zero usability of interfaces
>Most support Miracast but cannot cast using your laptop because "muh-copyright, please use Netflix or other paid streaming"
>App stores filled fake HBO apps
Thomas Parker
Literally every TV except $200 bargin bin Walmart TVs are "Smart" these days. Are you still using your 10 year old plasma or something grandpa?
Juan Walker
All modern good TVs have good smart functionally. It's inserparable at this point, because the average consumer expects that functionality. When the dumb tv generation was tranforming into the smart one, this wasn't the case, where we had great plasmas etc. that were dumb. However, this was a long ass time ago, and you're stuck in the past. Today, it's actually opposite in my experience, where modern day dumb TVs are terrible.
Jacob Edwards
name ONE good 60-65" tv under $700
Oliver Miller
Literally the telescreens from 1984. Also a meme because the 'smart' functionality is very limited and slow.
Matthew Taylor
I have a 2015 LG model that doesn't take long to display video (4 seconds or so) but it takes up to 20 seconds to do basic shit like changing inputs. I added a Yamaha AV receiver and that's way faster to change between all the shit in my entertainment center.
Brody Rodriguez
The worst thing about "Smart TVs" is that they can show extra, unskippable ad-overlays.
I'm starting to think that that's what they were actually invented for.
Samuel Russell
trustedreviews.com
tl;dr
>Sony: best
>Vizio: worst
>Samsung: bad
>LG: depends
Robert Martinez
Get a Roku TV.
Luke Anderson
TVs with built in Roku integrate OTA into the experience if you're an antenna guy, but aside from that not much.
Hudson Jones
idk what everyone is meming about. my smart tvs menu is a simple bar at the bottom of the screen with my bookmarked tabs, and a settings button on the right. that's literally it. 60 inch, 700 dollars. I feel like no one here has actually bought or used one of these tvs lately
Aiden Howard
Good thing Sony is getting out of the consumer electronics business, then.
/sigh