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Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL (www.theverge.com)
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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do you think the only thing TVs are used for is watching traditional terrestrial TV? Lol

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago

I only watch extraterrestrial TV.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's the main purpose of them, yes. Define TV to me. I don't see the point of paying for decoders, smart TV and bunch of other things I'll never use, much smarter decision is to buy a monitor which focuses on image quality and performance, far more suitable for consoles, Roku, etc.

Commenter above low-key described that OLED as a monitor more than a TV

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

TVs are fantastic monitors.

It sounds reasonable to not want to pay for basically a small computer inside the TV.

But in practice, its not that expensive of a component. And TV volumes are so high that they're bigger and cheaper and higher quality than an equivalently priced monitor, anyway.

Hence, while I'm fine with the monitors I have, I'm never buying a "monitor" again. It just makes no financial sense when I can get a 40" 4K TV with 120hz VRR instead, that happens to work fantastically as a streaming box too.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My experience is that they all look terrible up close, for whatever reason. TVs are essentially designed for further-back viewing