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What vendors make good dumb TVs or big monitors? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 11 hours ago by Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The EMMC on my PC-TV finally broke down and I'd like to replace it with something that doesn't run an OS or will predictably fail with a countdown. But dumb TVs are hard to come by and monitors come at a premium at that size. I want to run a PC (DP/HDMI) and an SBC (HDMI) with it. I also have an S2 satellite cable, but that's secondary. I'd like to have ~43", 16:9, 4K but without an embedded smart-hub, ideally running of eeprom-firmware, or just anything independent of write-cycles. But I can't find any good options online. Are there companies for this. Comments and recommendations welcome.

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[–] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'd like to know too. I've never used my TV as a traditional TV, and I hate the "smart" features. Ideally, I'd like a modern 16:9 CRT under 80lbs, but they don't exist

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

What would be the benefit of a CRT? I'm sure they last plenty, but they draw a lot of power.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Some people prefer CRTs for gaming, there's much less input lag, and differences in the way images are displayed means that you can often run games at lower resolutions than pixel based displays without as much of a decrease in image quality. Here's a DF video talking about some of the advantages.

Also CRTs can be pushed to insanely high frame rates, although this can be limited by how much you reduce the resolution. For example, one guy got his to run at 700hz refresh rate (by dropping resolution to 120p).

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 hours ago

As soon as you use a digital input you lose any real latency advantages. Plus modern digital displays have such low latency the difference really doesn't matter.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 hours ago

I see, I know the arguments from gamers (and have seen that video before). The discussion was on TVs and I didn't think of the gaming angle.

I'm also not convinced about that stuff, to me it's like talking to audiophiles that swear they can totally hear the difference between made by an expensive ethernet cable in the final audio, or that they can tell 16bit 48kHz from 24bit 96kHz, while basic physics and double blind tests say they can't.

[–] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Modern displays make my eyes hurt

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

And CRTs dont????

[–] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Nope! I could watch one all day, no clue why