Post #1767574

2026-01-31 18:24 UTC

It's not even innovation, per say. It's just Big Number Go Up. Nobody seems to want to make a TV that makes watching TV more pleasant. They just want to turn these things into giant bespoke advertising billboards in your living room. Show me the TV manufacturer who includes an onboard ad blocker. That's some fucking innovation.

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@redditmademedoit@piefed.zip 2026-01-31 20:33

The galaxy brain move is buying an old dumb tv for a pittance and use it for watching Jellyfin/Plex/stream from a browser with uBlock Origin/DNS filtering – all running on some relative's "obsolete" smart toaster from last year that they happily gift you because "the new version's bagel mode IS LIT – pun intended – but it needs the 128 gb DDR7 ram of the new model, can barely toast on the old one any more".

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@Evilschnuff@feddit.org 2026-01-31 20:39

I think this just comes down to human nature. Give people (engineers, execs) a metric that looks like a good proxy for performance and they will overcommit on that metric as it is a safer bet than thinking outside the box. I think the incremental improvements in deep learning with all those benchmarks are a similar situation.

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@chocrates@piefed.world 2026-01-31 22:10

You can't really find a dumb TV anymore. I might see how big of a monkey I can find when I'm ready to upgrade, but I doubt I'll find one big enough and cheap enough.

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