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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

TVs that do anything more than displaying a signal exactly as it's input shouldn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I at least like audio with the display.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Instructions unclear, TVs now display audio via AI — Samsung

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

TVs that do anything more than displaying a signal exactly as it's input shouldn't exist.

Some of that input could do with a bit of tweaking though.

I wouldn't mind if the TV was able to do things with the audio track, like remove background music, or lift the volume of people speaking, or erase laugh tracks/live audience hooting& hollering.

There's probably similar manipulation that you could do on the video side (eventually, once TVs stop getting the worst processors ever, not here and now). Imagine a prompt that says "Airbrush every recognisable brand name on-screen so that it blends with the background".

I seriously doubt if any major manufacturer would do that kind of thing though, so better get working on jailbreaking those TVs.

[–] Kichae 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry, the best we can do is always showing you subtitles by default, and not letting you permanently change that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah it's steadily getting enshittified.

I used to have a mythtv box that I'd built , like, 15 years ago and it was pretty good. For a while there TV UIs were adequate enough that I didn't need it, but it seems that maybe it's time to build another one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Instructions unclear. Added Starbucks coffee to every season of game of thrones

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What you're asking for is a monitor, not a TV. The last TV I've seen that is this limited still had a picture tube - and it wasn't even the last CRT TV I've used (we actually had a very late one with HDMI). Regardless of how silly AI features are, there's a middle ground.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

This, but unironically. When I had a small apartment I just had a big monitor with everything hooked up to it in the main room, and it was great. Now I spend all my time at my desk because I hate the stupid TV.