Actually he got a good deal. Those screens are more expensive because they don't come bundled with ad riddled toiletware, and they often have a longer lifespan to accomodate being on for so long every day. Depends on how much it got used already though.
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I never thought I'd see the day where people were confused by how to use a TV without the smart features.
Have you forgotten about VCRs? No one knew how to set them up properly and they only had 2 coax jacks.
I set up a vcr when I was 8.
What do you mean I put red in red and yellow in yellow, is just too confusing I already plugged in the power how much more complicated does it need to be.
I miss my radio
They didn't have stereo??
It must have been 3 cables..
You guys must be young.
And every time you went to someone's house their VCR was blinking '12:00'.
Soβ¦. Remove the usb stick?
That would be just a monitor, wouldn't it? I thought most of these were just monitors with devices vesa mounted on the back...
Some of them are more like a giant, non-touch-screen tablets than monitors.
This probably just has this image saved into memory, and they can easily make it display something else.
Is the image burning into the screen not a concern on these though?
This displays often are not static, often displaying short video ads for seasonal items which take up the whole monitor.
Probably less than the burn-in of a taskbar or window header
Anyway to fix that to become a tv? I once bought a tv that had at one time been used for this purpose. Once it was unplug from the device storing the info it just became a flat tv.
I helped a friend hook one of these up to an old Linux machine. Super easy to do. Just uses it to watch Netflix or YouTube
Whatβs there to fix? Just hook up a video input and youβre golden.
Could you maybe just connect a cheap android box and use it like that?
Or anything with an HDMI plug.
my previous flatmate bought one of these digital menus used and it had a single DP input, he used a Chromecast and a box that extracted HDMI audio via TOSLINK and then a HDMI to DP converter for the panel. It worked great and it was a very cheap solution for the time.
A lot of the newer commercial displays have signage players built into them. The content is probably cached locally.
I've seen Intel NUCs hanging from the backs of signage displays in Macca's when I lived in Melbourne. I guess pushing updates to the menus would be easier. My company used Raspberry Pis in our showrooms - admittedly it was implemented horribly. They all used SD cards which ended up failing due to write wear.
Interesting about the new models, would be keen to get my hands on one π
That would be just a monitor, wouldn't it?
No. The distinguishing feature between a monitor and a TV is that a TV has a tuner built into it.
There are other things like the variety of inputs and screen position settings on monitors, but those are mostly minor.
Who uses a tuner these days? Modern TV signal is just via Ethernet, and if you call that a tuner then my phone is a modem
How much you want to bet this is photoshpped by someone who listens to Darknet Diaries?
What does this mean? I'm aware of the podcast but only heard an ep or two.
There's an episode intro where his dad goes to Mexico and buys some sketch TV from some guys, but when he gets home its a KFC menu
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