How I hate this. Everything has to be smart nowadays. With smart being a buzzword synonym for "stupid computer with closed source locked software you have no control over".
Looking for a new TV. Every TV is smart. There is none without that crap. Salesperson: "You don't have to use it." Yeah, but I have to pay it if I need a new TV. So many people have been telling me things like these about their smart TVs:
Salesperson: "You are the only person on the whole wide world not wanting a smart TV. Customers nowadays want this"
Customer nowadays, and at every time before, just buy what is there and what they get told is "the new thing".
It is a huge waste that you should throw away a huge TV after a few years because the internal apps stopped working (and there are no updates). Why not put the "smart" stuff into a tiny easily replaceable box (hardly larger than a thumb drive)?
The TV has one job: Be the biggest screen in the house with the best image for movies and video games. Why not give people the *option* to simply buy a minimalist device doing this job?
I didn't even mention the lack of analoge inputs. WTF. No composite. No (RGB) Scart. No component. Nothing. The young man today in the Media Markt didn't even understand me as I asked him: "How do I connect my old analoge devices?"
Salesman "What do you mean??"
Sinchen "Non HDMI devices."
Salesman: "Scart?"
Sinchen: "Yes, Scart, Composite. Component. I need to connect my (S)NES, PlayStation 1, VHS recorder, Wii and so on "
Salesmen: (relieved) "We have an adapter."
Sinchen "Does it introduce lag?"
Salesman: "What!?"
Sinchen: "Does it introduce lag? You know: If I play NES games requiring pixel perfect jumps and this introduces some milliseconds delay, the game is unplayable."
Salesman: "I'm not a gamer. No idea what you mean. It is not a passive adapter. It is an active converter. Probably not instantaneously. But that doesn't matter." (No shit, Sherlock! Analoge signals have to be converted to HDMI)"
Sinchen: "It doesn't matter for watching VHS, but for gaming."
Saleman: *TILT* "I'm not a gamer."
Sinchen: "Even my year 2012 plasma TV has a game mode. For that reason." (And it is impossible to play on this TV without game mode!!)
Salesman: "Yeah. All our TVs have a game mode!"
Sinchen: "See. Because of not introducing lag the TVs have to disable their stupid picture improvements."
I am not the only one on the whole wide world wanting just a huge monitor. A monitor that starts up in two seconds and just does the one job: Show video signals.
I don't want to have a bunch of "You don't have to use it" (but you will press it anyway accidentally nonstop) buttons for Netflix, Disney, YouTube, Amazon…
Go to hell, TV makers. I want a TV, not a Televisor! You want people to connect their devices to the internet. There will be privacy problems (the guy told me there was not a single model without microphone left). The industry wants this. Not "all the customers" - at least not actively or consciously.
No, I will not buy a digital signage monitor 10 times as expensive as a consumer TV. That is no alternative.
Looking for a new TV. Every TV is smart. There is none without that crap. Salesperson: "You don't have to use it." Yeah, but I have to pay it if I need a new TV. So many people have been telling me things like these about their smart TVs:
- YouTube app crashes
- Netflix doesn't work (anymore)
- No updates
- Slow
- Internet browser is shit
Salesperson: "You are the only person on the whole wide world not wanting a smart TV. Customers nowadays want this"
Customer nowadays, and at every time before, just buy what is there and what they get told is "the new thing".
It is a huge waste that you should throw away a huge TV after a few years because the internal apps stopped working (and there are no updates). Why not put the "smart" stuff into a tiny easily replaceable box (hardly larger than a thumb drive)?
The TV has one job: Be the biggest screen in the house with the best image for movies and video games. Why not give people the *option* to simply buy a minimalist device doing this job?
I didn't even mention the lack of analoge inputs. WTF. No composite. No (RGB) Scart. No component. Nothing. The young man today in the Media Markt didn't even understand me as I asked him: "How do I connect my old analoge devices?"
Salesman "What do you mean??"
Sinchen "Non HDMI devices."
Salesman: "Scart?"
Sinchen: "Yes, Scart, Composite. Component. I need to connect my (S)NES, PlayStation 1, VHS recorder, Wii and so on "
Salesmen: (relieved) "We have an adapter."
Sinchen "Does it introduce lag?"
Salesman: "What!?"
Sinchen: "Does it introduce lag? You know: If I play NES games requiring pixel perfect jumps and this introduces some milliseconds delay, the game is unplayable."
Salesman: "I'm not a gamer. No idea what you mean. It is not a passive adapter. It is an active converter. Probably not instantaneously. But that doesn't matter." (No shit, Sherlock! Analoge signals have to be converted to HDMI)"
Sinchen: "It doesn't matter for watching VHS, but for gaming."
Saleman: *TILT* "I'm not a gamer."
Sinchen: "Even my year 2012 plasma TV has a game mode. For that reason." (And it is impossible to play on this TV without game mode!!)
Salesman: "Yeah. All our TVs have a game mode!"
Sinchen: "See. Because of not introducing lag the TVs have to disable their stupid picture improvements."
I am not the only one on the whole wide world wanting just a huge monitor. A monitor that starts up in two seconds and just does the one job: Show video signals.
I don't want to have a bunch of "You don't have to use it" (but you will press it anyway accidentally nonstop) buttons for Netflix, Disney, YouTube, Amazon…
Go to hell, TV makers. I want a TV, not a Televisor! You want people to connect their devices to the internet. There will be privacy problems (the guy told me there was not a single model without microphone left). The industry wants this. Not "all the customers" - at least not actively or consciously.
No, I will not buy a digital signage monitor 10 times as expensive as a consumer TV. That is no alternative.
