Reposting this from here from 2023, after I stumbled across it tonight and it hits hard.
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I love my smart TV. I love the way it takes a long time to boot up because it’s trying to refresh the advertisements on the home screen. I delight in the way it randomly restarts because it’s downloaded an update without asking me, each of which makes the TV slower and slower with every subsequent install. I adore the way it buries the apps that I want to use, and that I use without fail every single time, below the apps that it’s being paid to promote and which I have never touched in my life and would never use without the cold metal of a glock pressed hard against my sweating temple. I am infinitely thrilled by the way the interface lags constantly, due to the need to have one thousand unnecessary animations rendered on hardware ripped wholesale from a ten year old phone. I feel myself borne aloft on wings of pure joy when I am notified that my data will be collected and analysed to determine my usage patterns. Even now I am writing this from a field of beautiful flowers and soft luscious grass as I lie and look up happily at the bright blue sky, smiling happily to know that this is the future of technology
I wish there was a company like Fairphone or Framework laptops but for TVs.
I'm surprised nobody has yet jail-broken Samsung and LG TVs and made a custom Tizen ROM
Probably too many models with too many varying components for anyone to bother trying....
Maybe that is why they make 20 slight variations of every model.
https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV-category1category73.html
These don't seem to be particularly new panels. $600 and only 97% of the sRGB color space (= ~78% DCI-P3), meanwhile a similarly priced LG "QNED" can do 90-95% of DCI-P3. I'm not sure you can even call those TVs HDR if they're only 8-bit color. None of these models can even remotely compare to a brand new OLED TV.
LCD panels do exist. They are just very expensive because they are not made for consumers and have no ads or data collection.
It's almost like ads and data collection subsidize the hardware and make it cheaper...
Tbh I bought my last tv when 1080p lcd was the hot new thing and it was NOT cheap. If buying a dumb tv/"display" is just the same thing I'm used to? Fine.
That lcd is still kicking though so I won't find out until it's dead.