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Help me buy a new TV
#26819756 - 07/12/20 03:42 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm looking for something with really impressive, state of the art tech that will really wow you with its colors, brightness etc. I don't know anything about TV's though.
I'm willing to pay around $1,000 for a 55 or 65".
Can anybody help me get the lay of the land in the TV space and get some state of the art, beautiful shit?
If you help steer my purchase decision to some exceptional shit, I will kick back $25 for the help. Win-win, chickies.
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: chutney]
#26819774 - 07/12/20 04:00 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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You should cut all television from your life man
Its pure poison for the soul
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: Tripsurfer] 1
#26819791 - 07/12/20 04:09 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Tripsurfer said: You should cut all television from your life man
Its pure poison for the soul
You prolly got BO
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: chutney]
#26820211 - 07/12/20 10:02 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I have had bad experiences with sony
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: chutney]
#26820403 - 07/13/20 01:56 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Black friday at costco, just hold out to black friday at costco.
I got a 4k 60fps and at 1080p 120 fps led blaw blaw blaw smart etc all that gay shit for 550 dollars.
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: budmanman]
#26820440 - 07/13/20 03:48 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I’m one of those people who really can’t see much of a difference in video quality. There are of course really bad ones on the cheap and really good ones at the super expensive end, but in that 600-1k level, they all look the same to me. At that price, I look at the other features, like number of inputs, viewing angle, glare on the screen, remote functions, etc.
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Buy the samsung qled series, i picked up a 55" for $699 and it is very nice. The LGs are probably better but not imho worth the upcharge over the samsung. Great tv, amazing clarity compared to the 1080p it replaced, like going from standard def to high def all over again
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: chutney]
#26820552 - 07/13/20 06:52 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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How bright is the room and how far from the TV are you sitting?
In the broadest sense, OLED is going to give you the best picture quality, but at your price point you'll need to decide between a larger screen size vs. quality. I tend to prefer a larger, more immersive viewing experience.
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Sugabearcrisp said: Buy the samsung qled series, i picked up a 55" for $699 and it is very nice. The LGs are probably better but not imho worth the upcharge over the samsung. Great tv, amazing clarity compared to the 1080p it replaced, like going from standard def to high def all over again
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: chutney] 1
#26820876 - 07/13/20 11:08 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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The difference between the lowest qled and the next level up is selective on/off of the backlight. Above that it gets into thinner and thinner bezels and panels.
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: chutney]
#26820890 - 07/13/20 11:14 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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HDR is the newest tech. Stands for High Dynamic Range. Also OLED or organic LED. The best of the best. So make sure your new TV has both OLED and HDR capabilities
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LogicaL Chaos said: HDR is the newest tech. Stands for High Dynamic Range. Also OLED or organic LED. The best of the best. So make sure your new TV has both OLED and HDR capabilities 
Alright word. This is helpful.
How about color range and accuracy and shit? Anything I need to be aware of there?
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: chutney] 2
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Buy a cheap 4k HDR TV, replace it every three or four years and you'll be ahead of the game.
The content isn't there to really push 4k HDR in a meaningful way right now, so it's a waste to go over board. And getting that quality into your TV remains an issue. This is true even with self hosted content, as a true 4k HDR movie is in the 60gb-100gb range. Then you have to stream that, if you direct play it at full rates, you are looking at 8mb/s to 20mb/s, sometimes more, so to do that reliably you basically need to run hard line to your TV or box. Generally, I try to direct play as reduces load on my server, but sometimes you just can't get the bandwidth to do it. Especially if I am off the LAN. I have a fios gigabit too, so it shouldn't be an issue, but at times it still is.
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LogicaL Chaos said: HDR is the newest tech. Stands for High Dynamic Range. Also OLED or organic LED. The best of the best. So make sure your new TV has both OLED and HDR capabilities 
Quantum LED is qled tek from samsung Organic LED us oled from lg
Qled still uses a back light and is an evolution of lcd whereas oled uses individual light emitting diodes. As such oled blacks will be blacker although higher end qleds can turn off the backlight at a pixel level.
Like i said OLED is better but a 55" oled is $1500+ whereas a 55" qled is $699+, not worth it to me.
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: chutney] 1
#26821021 - 07/13/20 12:18 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I don't think I'd recommend an OLED TV honestly. When they're new they look awesome and the infinite contrast ratio is amazing. But all OLED panels suffer from burn-in. No matter what marketing says, or what customers in denial try to claim, it can't be avoided with current tech. It's barely acceptable on phones which most people replace every few years. On a TV that's frequently displaying static network logos in the corner of the screen, or fixed UI elements from video games, or movies with black bars for hours at a time, I predict burn-in will become noticeable long before you'd choose to upgrade otherwise. For this reason QLED tech would be my suggestion for now. Eventually microLED will be the superior option for emissive displays but it's still a ways off.
If it was me I'd just get something like the TCL 65R625 and save the extra cash for a soundbar or PS5 or something.
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Sugabearcrisp said: The difference between the lowest qled and the next level up is selective on/off of the backlight. Above that it gets into thinner and thinner bezels and panels.
Nah. The difference is that the lower QLEDS are edge-lit and the higher quality are full array, which is pretty big difference. They also have different frame rates, but that isn't all that important IMO unless you like a fake-looking soap opera effect.
Any decent set will come with HDR, you'll pay a bit more for Dolby Vision, which is (more or less) dolby's version of HDR.
While burn-in is a hypothetical concern with OLED, most owners think the risks are overstated.
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: Ythan]
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Ythan said: I don't think I'd recommend an OLED TV honestly. When they're new they look awesome and the infinite contrast ratio is amazing. But all OLED panels suffer from burn-in. No matter what marketing says, it can't be avoided with current tech. It's barely acceptable on phones which most people replace every few years. On a TV that's frequently displaying static network logos in the corner of the screen, or fixed UI elements from video games, or movies with black bars for hours at a time, I predict burn-in will become noticeable long before you'd choose to upgrade otherwise. For this reason QLED tech would be my suggestion for now. Eventually microLED will be the superior option for emissive displays but it's still a ways off.
What would you suggest as an alternative?
How do the rest of you guys feel about this "burn in"?
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: chutney]
#26821045 - 07/13/20 12:33 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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How do the rest of you guys feel about this "burn in"?
I don't think LG would be a market leader selling $3,000 77" C9 TVs if they were ruined by burn in.
If you go heavy on games, think about it, otherwise, its a very minor risk, IMO. Years ago they said the same about plasma TVs and I never had an issue.
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: badchad]
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I've certainly seen more than a few Plasma tv's with some serious burn in. They also ran really hot, my brother in laws plasma TV burn the wall paper off the wall directly behind the TV.
This is why I say it's dumb to buy a $3k TV. In three years, a $500 TV will be just as good, but the content will still lag. There's a reason why most stores play special content for their high end TV's.
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This is why I say it's dumb to buy a $3k TV. In three years, a $500 TV will be just as good, but the content will still lag. There's a reason why most stores play special content for their high end TV's.
I would tend to agree, except we're approaching diminishing returns.
For example, resolution increases beyond 4k won't be perceptible. Blacks are pretty deep and in the case of OLED, you can't get much darker. I'd say things are slowing and we're in the evolutionary phase of TVs. Buy something decent now and you won't see perceptible differences for some time.
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: badchad]
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The big improvement is in the smart TV functions right now. A lot of them are finally (somewhat) catching up dedicated boxes like AppleTV and Shield. My el cheapo 55" HDR tv even has built in Roku, which is nice, because they regularly update the OS. Of course, I've used AppleTV's for years, so it's not getting used in my case, but having a viable modern OS for serving content makes getting the mileage out of the set a good bit easier.
You are however correct that the 4k step has pretty much meant there's not much else to do, outside of blacks. I do think going for a cheaper TV and spending some money on a good sound system might actually be better step then getting the most expensive TV you can afford. Often in movies imersiveness is very dependent on sound quality.
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: chutney]
#26821103 - 07/13/20 01:13 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Go with Samsung or Sony. Going to upgrade myself and my Samsung flat screen is still going strong at 14 years. Ready for a smart t.v. as I can't stream HBO Max or Apple T.V. I really fucking hate Apple. Have wasted so much time on their shit.
Would pay extra and go for the long term with a quality brand and do a lot of research before doing so. Like you are doing now, posting this.
Personally waiting till ordering one on when when everything is cheaper after Thanksgiving. Same with the next Gen. consoles. Going with the P.S. 5 over Xbox. But to your post, wouldn't recommend buying a cheap brand. Believe me with electronics, it is worth it on so many levels.
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: Barnaby]
#26821110 - 07/13/20 01:19 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Many of the cheap brands are built in the same manufacturing houses as the expensive brands, and a lot of the components are shared no matter the brand name. The same goes for dishwashers, washing machines, refrigerators, driers, stoves, you name it. More often than not the big brands are more expensive simply for the branding. The Samsung TVs are also famous for spying on you, so even if they've cleaned up their act, I think I would avoid them on principle.
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: Ythan]
#26821143 - 07/13/20 01:42 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Interesting post Ythan 
I guess when it comes to burn-in, QLED has the upper edge 
For HDR, im not too familiar with the different qualities. I guess just go for the most expensive TV u can afford with HDR capabilities
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: Tripsurfer]
#26821155 - 07/13/20 01:46 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Tripsurfer said: You should cut all television from your life man
Its pure poison for the soul
I agree to an extent....
....I stopped watching TV pretty much entirely 10+ years ago. I haven't sat down in front of a TV just to "watch TV" in over a decade. I haven't watched any TV shows/series or any new movies in over a decade. The TV in my room hasn't been turned on for about 8 or 9 months now lol.
But having a decent quality TV with a somewhat large screen is one thing I still like to have on hand, mostly just for the sake of "eye candy"...
....I enjoy watching nature documentaries from time to time (a few times year), things like the "Planet Earth" series and other similar nature docs that were filmed in HD/4K. I watched a documentary a couple years ago that was about bugs/insects and it was filmed all in "macro" with super high quality cameras, that was gnarly seeing it on a large HD/4K screen.
Watching those sorts of things on a large high quality screen is super cool, and that's pretty much the only reason I'd want to have a decent TV on hand lol. I'm not into any TV shows/series and I find the majority of movies to be garbage/cookie-cutter crap.
I've been so out of touch in regards to the tech involved with TVs and other consumer electronics over the past 10 years or so. I used to keep up on all of it.
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: openmind]
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Get a Vizeo or LG. They don't spy on you. Your life is very interesting and this is coming from a person, me, that covers his laptop camera with a golden sticker!
Seriously go with quality and long life. Or fear and worry someone is watching you. I get it with computers and laptops. T.V.'s, not so much.
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: Barnaby]
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No joke, fam.
https://money.cnn.com/2015/02/09/technology/security/samsung-smart-tv-privacy/index.html
My 8? year old Vizeo that’s 1080p is still rocking today. It was a highly rated tv for its price range (mid) at the time. I think the picture looks damn near as good as my year old 4K HDR tv with only a few exceptions. The problem still remains the true HDR content is hard to find. 4k stuff is pretty common now, but a lot of the streaming services are still holding out because of the bandwidth demands. And if you don't have the bandwidth at home, it's not going to work anyways as it will get transcoded down in the lower quality streams.
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Heh, Vizio might not spy on you anymore but if they don't it's only because they got busted and taken to court over it. I got a $20 check from that settlement.
LG TVs also use content recognition last I checked. It's pretty common for all smart TVs to subsidize the price with intrusive monitoring. You can usually turn it off if you know where to look. Here's a slightly outdated guide. The other option is to use something like a Pi-hole to block the tracking at a network level.
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: chutney] 1
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chutney said: I'm looking for something with really impressive, state of the art tech that will really wow you with its colors, brightness etc. I don't know anything about TV's though.
I'm willing to pay around $1,000 for a 55 or 65".
Can anybody help me get the lay of the land in the TV space and get some state of the art, beautiful shit?
If you help steer my purchase decision to some exceptional shit, I will kick back $25 for the help. Win-win, chickies.
Make it vhas a brand with letters and numbers for a model.
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: Ythan]
#26821364 - 07/13/20 03:43 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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+1 for pi-hole, installed mine a few days ago. Didn't realise everything from my lights to the TV is trying 'to call home' and tracking your ass.
Anyways, I have a 55" Samsung RU7100 and am happy with it for the price I paid.
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Yikes! https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/09/if-you-have-a-smart-tv-take-a-closer-look-at-your-privacy-settings.html
Be careful what you say in front of your Samsung TV. It's listening to you. Many Samsung "SmartTVs" come equipped with voice recognition, which allows you to bark commands at your TV. Since the television is always listening for your voice, Samsung has warned its SmartTV customers that every word is being captured and sent over the Internet.
"Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition," Samsung posted in its SmartTV privacy policy.
Okay, that's pretty creepy.
Samsung says it needs to send your voice commands to a third-party, because that company converts your speech to text. But Samsung also collects your voice commands to perform research and determine whether it needs to make improvements to the feature.
Samsung noted that a microphone appears on the screen when the voice recognition feature is turned on, notifying customers that their voice is being captured. You can opt-out of the SmartTV voice recognition feature.
But even if you opt out, your voice commands will still be captured. The SmartTV has a set of pre-programmed commands that it recognizes even if you opt out of voice recognition. Samsung will collect the text of those pre-programmed voice commands (though not your voice itself) and analyze how much you're using certain commands.
"Samsung does not retain voice data or sell it to third parties," the company said in a statement. "If a consumer consents and uses the voice recognition feature ... the voice data is sent to a server, which searches for the requested content then returns the desired content to the TV."
Samsung did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the identity of the third party or whether that company records the voice data.
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Your phones doing it too lol
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: Ythan]
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Ythan said: Heh, Vizio might not spy on you anymore but if they don't it's only because they got busted and taken to court over it. I got a $20 check from that settlement.
LG TVs also use content recognition last I checked. It's pretty common for all smart TVs to subsidize the price with intrusive monitoring. You can usually turn it off if you know where to look. Here's a slightly outdated guide. The other option is to use something like a Pi-hole to block the tracking at a network level.
I've never had a TV with any time of integrated voice control simply because I was afraid of the data collection. Of course the most recent Apple stuff has Siri, so I guess I lost.
I've run a pi-hole for years because I have a child and I like to limit exposure to various things. I run the docker on my Synology NAS. Works like a charm!
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Nice man! I got a DS718+ for torrents, plex, and other media storage. Thinking about upgrading to something with more bays, but I have two 10 tb reds in there now, pretty powerful for something the size of a toaster haha.
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christopera
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Synology for the win! Yeah, I love mine. It's a little pricey, but it works so well I have no regrets. I've had other NASs that were nightmares.
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tyrannicalrex
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: budmanman]
#26821693 - 07/13/20 07:33 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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budmanman said: Your phones doing it too lol
even a kyocera?
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christopera
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Especially the Kyocera, how do you think they make them so cheap?
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Ice9
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In your price range you want 4k, HDR, and FALD (full array local dimming). The most reasonably priced TV with all those things that I can think off and is also an actual good TV is the TCL 6 series. Don't worry if you haven't heard the name, they are crushing the rankings rtings.com Their rating is down a bit from last year, but this is their first model year with quantum dot tech, I bet the 2020 model (prob comes out in august) will be even better.
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Kwyjibo
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: Ice9]
#26821972 - 07/13/20 09:51 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I've been happy with the 2 TCL TVs I have.
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christopera
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: Kwyjibo]
#26821984 - 07/13/20 09:55 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah my el cheapo 4k HDR is TCL, I got it for free because I accrue so many Best Buy points (day job stuff). The TV is awesome, it had great ratings, and unlike some of the hail corporate folk, I have no issue sleeping when my TV isn't a well known name brand unit.
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Edited by christopera (07/13/20 10:07 PM)
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Niffla



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I want an OLED real bad
I just got my first 4K a couple months ago -- but a lower end one. 60 inch Vizio 4K for around $400.
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: Niffla] 1
#26824128 - 07/14/20 10:59 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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You back then or just teasing me?
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Led Zeppelin
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: Niffla] 1
#26824287 - 07/15/20 01:59 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Niffla said: I want an OLED real bad
I just got my first 4K a couple months ago -- but a lower end one. 60 inch Vizio 4K for around $400.

Just got an OLED tv it’s legit man. Those 4K Xbox games look pretty nice the screen is literally just a piece of glass that comes out from the bottom no border or anything behind it
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Ice9
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Quote:
Led Zeppelin said:
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Niffla said: I want an OLED real bad
I just got my first 4K a couple months ago -- but a lower end one. 60 inch Vizio 4K for around $400.

Just got an OLED tv it’s legit man. Those 4K Xbox games look pretty nice the screen is literally just a piece of glass that comes out from the bottom no border or anything behind it
Just wait for the burn in... OLED notorious for it.
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Sugabearcrisp
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: Ice9]
#26824457 - 07/15/20 06:06 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Effective security measures are cheap

I recently requested my data from several companies that provide my services and was pleased to see the transcripts from the voice remote were just garbley gook thanks to the tape over the mic.
As an aside thanks to california cosumer privacy act of 2019 most companies are now providing a mechanism to request the data they store related to you. If you are no longer a customer you can request it be deleted as well, there is a clause that allows them to refuse deletion on grounda of business need for active and recent customers, where recent is generally 3 years.
I recommend everyone concerned with corporate big brother put in requests, it is eye opening to say the least, especially the marketing propensity data.
Unfortunately no such law exists for govt.
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Sugabearcrisp
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How is the app support on the tlc? One of the reasons i chose samsung is they have full support of xfinity/comcast app which means no monthy cable box fee
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starfire_xes
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: chutney]
#26824465 - 07/15/20 06:19 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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make sure you have an awesome stereo, with a huge subwoofer. I dont watch TV, i use my TV for movies, and i play videos from my computer.
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chutney
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ChinChiller said: +1 for pi-hole, installed mine a few days ago. Didn't realise everything from my lights to the TV is trying 'to call home' and tracking your ass.
Anyways, I have a 55" Samsung RU7100 and am happy with it for the price I paid.
What is this pi-hole? I'm intrigued
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ChinChiller



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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: chutney]
#26831939 - 07/19/20 05:03 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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It acts as an intermediary DNS server between you and a DNS like Google or OpenDNS. It intercepts requests, blocking requests that are blacklisted, preventing connections to domains that can be ads, malware, or telemetry (like from Smart TVs).
And it is usually installed on a rasberry-pi, but can also be installed as a docker on linux machines or other operating systems. You want it running 24/7 which is why something with low power consumption like a raspberry-pi is perfect for it.
Edited by ChinChiller (07/19/20 05:09 AM)
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Enjoywho
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Re: Help me buy a new TV [Re: Tripsurfer]
#26831945 - 07/19/20 05:13 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Tripsurfer said: You should cut all television from your life man
Its pure poison for the soul
I cut out cable which I can agree with.
I like watching shows on netflix,hulu, or just random streaming sites.
Cable and it's commercials are just the absolute worst. plus you can't even pick whats on.
My guess is cables gonna go extinct. More streaming services will continue to come out. Someone will bundle them together and start adding in commercials because fuck you why not.
Then we will have come full circle and invented cable again.
On a tv I dunno man there all good these days. I know theres like 4k tvs and stuff like that out now but i'm not even sure if anything really uses it. I honestly don't really think it matters anyway I think were pretty much getting to the edge of where we can keep making it better and better but our eyes can't process it.
I'm guessing you don't even really need to spend a whole grand on that size of tv.
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