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Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL (www.theverge.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 61 points 8 months ago (22 children)

I had a TCL phone for a bit about 10 years ago and it was the hottest piece of garbage I had ever touched in my life

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (20 children)

    They've really worked to turn that around with their TVs. They're entry level still sure, but for the price it's hard to beat and their quality control on them has taken a big step up.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (16 children)

    Their tvs are cheap because of all the ad and Spyware.

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago (15 children)

    You mean the stuff every TV has these days? I also never hook mine to the internet so not really a problem. I haven't seen a single ad in the year I've had mine

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  • [+] -8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (12 children)

    You can still get dumb tvs.

    Edit: Yall. They are not hard to find. Please do a search of them. They can even be delivered right to your doorstep.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    If you have a link or can tell me what store to walk in and get a dumb TV with even half the quality of my current TV I will take it. I could only find business displays which were all stuck at 60hz or had a color spectrum and contrast so bad my ten year old laptop IPS screen beat them.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Well I suspect the quality is not going to be up to your standard, but this is the one I have in my living room, and I think it's perfectly fine. But if you just can't live without 120hz or whatever, then I guess you're stuck.

    Walmart used to have a variety of these, now they're down to one. All my TVs are either 10+ years old or Sceptre and therefore are all dumb. But I don't have a purist bone in my body when it comes to AV stuff.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    It's not a bad TV. And if it was just watching movies or something I definitely wouldn't care about 120hz, but it's just so much better for gaming.

    I'm not a purist, like I said I'm rocking a TCL which is low end, but I've come to appreciate some level of specs I can't go back on.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I would LOVE to know how!

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  • [+] -13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    What disgusting cope. Don't you have any self-respect?

    Just because you can work around the abuse doesn't mean they aren't abusing you.

    Edit: people like the commenter above are actively making the world worse by normalizing and even excusing abusive corporate practices. I apologize for nothing!

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    Dude, touch grass and calm down. You're putting a lot of words in my mouth and completely missing the point which is why you're getting down voted.

    I've pushed back on "smart" TVs so much. My point was if your issue with TCL is the ads you should rightfully have issues with every TV. They're all shoving ads, they're all analysing watched content. This isn't a TCL specific thing at all was my only point.

    Also disconnecting from internet is a direct way of fighting back against that abuse. You're not giving them those analytics or ad space. Sure you can choose to not buy any TV but I clearly keep overestimating people's intelligence and didn't think I needed to spell out every possible option in a quick comment.

    Fuck I hate the braindead keyboard warriors the internet has enabled.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Quantity control :D

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