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Some features that LG is introducing to high-end TVs this year seem to better serve LG’s business interests than those users' needs. Take the new remote. Formerly known as the Magic Remote, LG is calling the 2025 edition the AI Remote.

The new remote doesn’t have a dedicated button for switching input modes, as previous remotes from LG and countless other remotes do.

By overlooking other obviously helpful controls (play/pause, fast forward/rewind, and numbers) while including buttons dedicated to things like LG's free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels and Amazon Alexa, LG missed an opportunity to update its remote in a way centered on how people frequently use TVs.

LG and Samsung are incorporating Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot into 2025 TVs.

Samsung, which is also adding Copilot to some of its smart monitors, said in its announcement that Copilot will help with “personalized content recommendations.” Samsung has also said that Copilot will help its TVs understand strings of commands, like increasing the volume and changing the channel.

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[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 children)

Once they completely solve the burn in problem with OLED, assuming they haven't already, I honestly genuinely don't know where they actually are gonna go from here. Even for gaming (VR not withstanding): 4k HDR+ @120hz is already more than what 99% of the market could ever genuinely want (let alone need) and if you genuinely are that top 1% of prosumers you are almost certainly more invested in a dedicated desktop monitor than a giant TV. For movie/tv watching experiences we're already well past what most content can even handle since nearly everything even at the highest budgets in Hollywood is mastered with a 2k digital intermediary before they upscale it and I don't see that changing anytime in the near future. I'm not sure if it did, with how far ahead TV is of the source content, it would even matter.

Nobody needs 8k. I don't even mean most consumers don't need 8k. I mean even most prosumers or video professionals don't need 8k, let alone 16k which the new HDMI 2.2 spec supports. Its a dead end.

Genuinely: whatever level of media consumer you are I don't think you'll be able to tell much difference if any between a panel released this year and a panel 10 years from now. Its all just quality of life updates and gimmicks from here on out.

[–] Tom742@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Personally I want some novel display technology that isn’t light blasted directly into my eyeballs. Or more options for interesting display technologies at least.

Laser Phosphor Displays look interesting, functionally like a CRT except it’s a laser striking the phosphor screen instead of electrons. Probably the closest I could ever see to a new production CRT.

Field-emission displays also look interesting, basically a tiny matrix of micro electron guns producing phosphor “pixels” instead of scanning the image one line at time. SED’s are pretty similar, also very cool.

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