In regards of technology these days, if you want to go one step forward, you have to take several steps back for whatever reason because people have gotten too comfortable with companies being anti-consumer. This even applies to televisions, the piece of tech needed to use game consoles, DVD players, streaming services, and so forth.
The biggest flaws with smart TVs have to be the intrusive ads, privacy concerns, and the abnormally small remotes that don’t have enough buttons. The very limited button scheme on the remote has enough room to have buttons for four different streaming platforms, but apparently not enough for a guide or input button? Back in my day we were complaining about remote controls having too many buttons, now there isn’t enough.
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Smart TVs are just preferences by people. Its their preference, its their choice. I honestly think Smart TVs can do good but I don't want to be using a Roku TV.
it's only a matter of time before they tell you that you must have wifi enabled or else "the tv don't work anymore" excuse is tossed there.
I used to have a fire tv. Now, as my tv in my living room I have a samsung one from 2022 i think and it runs decently well, then in my room I have a tv tgat isnt smart and I just use a google tv on it when its not my pc moniter
Does anyone remember when LG Smart TV’s came with a remote called the ‘magic remote’ which was not only terrible but also looked like a Philips CD-I controller.
Newer Roku remotes have a dedicated guide button, that took away one of the custom shortcut buttons you used to have.
I agree with this one as well, I have a Vizio Smart TV and it lags pretty often, even when I go on Amazon Prime on my Smart TV, so if my TV always freezes like this, then I always have to turn it off and turn it back on again.
havent seen you in awhile. this is the first notification from ya in like a couple months.
Dumb TVs also had MUCH better menus.
They're starting to add these to some computer monitors, too, specifically one i saw from samsung