Curved teles

[Billy Rocket]

300ish bare bones so just add ram and ssd or nvme for storage. That's for the current gen kaby lake cpu's so will support everything (HDR later with next windows update) which is nice. The pic quality is just amazing tho!

You are right about pushing HDR as well, they are using that as their marketing machine currently. 3d won't die, surely. Way too much good stuff!!

NUCs are a complete waste of money. Especially with AMD Zen APUs/boxes on the way.

 

[PTR]

I didn't realise they had dropped the 3D ones. It did seem all gimmick. Who wants to sit with daft glasses on every time you watch TV. It is not like they added much to 90% of the films anyway.

I'd glady stick glasses on to watch films.

Problem is, most of the 3D content is shitty post-production, artificial 3D crap. Stuff filmed in 3D was excellent, but not much was.

The industry pissed on its own chips out of greed.

NUCs are a complete waste of money. Especially with AMD Zen APUs/boxes on the way.

I'd have thought the Intel compute sticks would be a more cost-effective option if you wanted to go that way. About £100 aren't they?

 

[prica's crown]

I'd glady stick glasses on to watch films.

Problem is, most of the 3D content is shitty post-production, artificial 3D crap. Stuff filmed in 3D was excellent, but not much was.

The industry pissed on its own chips out of greed.


I'd have thought the Intel compute sticks would be a more cost-effective option if you wanted to go that way. About £100 aren't they?

3D porn needed!

300ish bare bones so just add ram and ssd or nvme for storage. That's for the current gen kaby lake cpu's so will support everything (HDR later with next windows update) which is nice. The pic quality is just amazing tho!

You are right about pushing HDR as well, they are using that as their marketing machine currently. 3d won't die, surely. Way too much good stuff!!

well seeing that from 2010-2014 every manufacturer was releasing 3D and pushing it hard, there is a huge existing user base.

TV's are so cheap now that people have 3-5 of them in a house- top end stuff costs a lost, but you can get a perfectly good TV that plays everything you need for 400-500 quid easy, from a good brand.

So its not like few years back when prices first came down , the digital switchover , where people 'needed' to upgrade from a CRT- to a point the market is saturated, cos a £1000 TV from now isn't really better than a £1000 one from 5 years ago, not enough to justify shelling out.

in the meantime things have gone like Skype cams, 3D (mostly) , voice control, motion control, evolution kits from Samsung, and a lot of the smart hubs are shite.

I wish a manufacturer would just do a great looking and sounding TV with a great picture, and leave the smart side to separate sticks/boxes.

 

[Dappa]

Curved are only good if you live alone. You need to be sitting directly in front of it which is pretty pointless to be fair.

 

[Billy Rocket]

I'd glady stick glasses on to watch films.

Problem is, most of the 3D content is shitty post-production, artificial 3D crap. Stuff filmed in 3D was excellent, but not much was.

The industry pissed on its own chips out of greed.


I'd have thought the Intel compute sticks would be a more cost-effective option if you wanted to go that way. About £100 aren't they?

For media playing? I'd probably go for an OpenELEC box, either ARM or Chromebox. I've seen tremendous deals on the latter from time to time, well less than £100. Though that was before a bunch of twisty fuckers killed the pound.

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TV's are so cheap now that people have 3-5 of them in a house- top end stuff costs a lost, but you can get a perfectly good TV that plays everything you need for 400-500 quid easy, from a good brand.
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I wish a manufacturer would just do a great looking and sounding TV with a great picture, and leave the smart side to separate sticks/boxes.

Couldn't agree more. I decided to cover 3 rooms in the house, worked out how much cash I wanted to spend, then bought the best deal on pq I could find. Fuck the smart TV bollocks. I wouldn't want that anyway - it's the most likely thing to need customising and upgrading, so it needs to be outside of the TV.

It would be good if they'd invent and standardise a port for plugging in extra functions such as media players, gaming, PC and so on. It could be as simple as a recessed USB 3.1 port, with enough space to slot in something the size of, say, a packet of tabs.

 

[prica's crown]

For media playing? I'd probably go for an OpenELEC box, either ARM or Chromebox. I've seen tremendous deals on the latter from time to time, well less than £100. Though that was before a bunch of twisty fuckers killed the pound.


Couldn't agree more. I decided to cover 3 rooms in the house, worked out how much cash I wanted to spend, then bought the best deal on pq I could find. Fuck the smart TV bollocks. I wouldn't want that anyway - it's the most likely thing to need customising and upgrading, so it needs to be outside of the TV.

It would be good if they'd invent and standardise a port for plugging in extra functions such as media players, gaming, PC and so on. It could be as simple as a recessed USB 3.1 port, with enough space to slot in something the size of, say, a packet of tabs.

don't get me wrong, It is nice for tvs to have the basic like Netflix/amazon/ and the catchups, but other apps are trash, and the web browsers useless
that sony android one as well, takes half an hour to power up, contstant reboots etc.

if its a £35 quid stick in it, its no skin off your nose- add it as an integral part to a TV and there is hell on as peoples expectations are higher- so if Netflix crashes twice its a disaster.
Plus, manufacturers can drop the apps and not do updates any time they like and say 'the tv is working to spec'
and you are stuck.

good idea re a recessed back to TV for stuff like that- a lot still don't want any smart.