The smarter the TV, the dumber the experience, amirite?

I don't think a full PC is necessarily the answer but something like an NVIDIA Shield or Apple TV is the way to go. TV manufactures do try to keep costs cheap so navigation on the smart TV experience is rarely good

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Even an Xbox would do tbh

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I have a PC plugged into my TV but I only use it for sports, for everything else I just use an Apple TV

by RoughDistribution 2 days ago

Mine is from 2024 and it's like using Android on the cheapest 2015 smart phone.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

A dumb TV is what? A monitor? Idk if a 55" OLED monitor exist, but I'd assume it to be far far expensive than a 55" oled tv.

by hermannjarod 2 days ago

Yup. I also have a TCL with roku, and it's the perfect ui.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Great quote , not an unpopular opinion tho .

by Adorable-Chard 2 days ago

Sounds like a whole lot of user error to me.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Why the hell should you need to skill yourself in using a TV, of all things!?

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Because it's a piece of relatively advanced technology. Even a dumb TV requires some amount of skill and knowledge to use. You just think it doesn't because you grew up with it and it's second nature to you

by goyetterasheed 2 days ago

I have an OLED most amazing TV I have ever owned. Worth every penny that we paid.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I don't use them for their streaming services. I use them for their superior picture quality. I wouldn't trade my LG OLED for a PC and a monitor for a second. And I have a nice PC and 4K Monitor set up too. It's just not the same. But then again I use a Shield if I have to Stream or I play discs on my 4K player.

by Amanda90 2 days ago

One exception to this is that I discovered my tv randomly supported the Xbox app. So I can just play Xbox streaming games with just a controller connected to the TV and nothing else. It's awesome.

by Early_Deer_1649 2 days ago

So here's my anecdote about smart TVs. I got a smart TV and never connected it to the internet. One day I decide to remove the Roku because I wanted to free up the HDMI port. Immediately I noticed that the image in the TV's version of the apps was just not as clear. So much detail was lost that it felt more like I was seeing a 1440p image stretched to 4K. I do suppose if you do ‘t know what a better picture could look like you'd think it was great but it was almost laughable that the apps in my $1,000+ TV look worse than a $30-40 Roku.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I have a nice 1st gen OLED smart TV from maybe 12 years ago. I put it in my workshop after it's been sat unused for many years. It has netflix, BBC iPlayer, prime, YouTube, and Plex all from the home screen..... None of them work anymore because the software support is so out of date/discontinued So naturally I did the logical thing. Dug out the PS3 to use that as a large slow crappy fire stick

by DefiantRecover6288 2 days ago

What even is the complaint? Do they even make dumb TVs anymore aside from computer monitors? I may just use my "smart" TV hooked up to my PC and PS5 and use those... But the smart functions work fine if I want to use that. I've just got more options.

by Jaskolskibritta 2 days ago

You guys are weird. Get an actually good (regularely updated and fast) smart tv and customize your menus and you're good to go. Hell, most remotes even have voice control these days if you're too lazy to type. Or just cast media from your phone, how is that so hard to do? (And if you don't wanna use streaming services, host a media server somewhere and connect that to the corresponding tv app)

by bergnaumefrain 2 days ago

I've saying for years that if they are gonna make TVs into computers then they need to put more RAM in them.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Connecting your smart TV to your home network is the equivalent of raw-dogging or being raw-dogged by an I.V. drug addict who you just witnessed do the same to a long line of other I.V. drug addicts.

by Tatyana38 2 days ago

Skill issue

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Yeah so difficult to use a wireless mouse and keyboard...

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Yes, I want a TV on which I can watch TV. I don't want it to do other things as well, because either it doesn't do them in the way I like, or it doesn't get updates anymore. Usually "smarter things" aren't worth it, in my opinion.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

They don't, the companies like selling them because they can charge $500 more for $30 more hardware. It's gotten hard to find dumb TVs anymore. But if you can then that plus a cheap fire stick or whatever is a smart TV except a smart TV will break down in a few years. Where as you can just replace a fire stick when it gets slow.

by Comfortable-Week-11 2 days ago