Price Per Square Inch for TVs by size

[zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

At least in the case of the Hisense TV I got for my grandparents, a "glitch" with accessibility controls (makes directional inputs unresponsive or multi-press at times) just so happens to make remapping the sponsored remote buttons impossible, as well as breaking the most common method of changing the system launcher, so screen size alone isn't everything.

Although Hisense still tries to reinstall sponsored apps after I delete them, using Launcher Manager to set a custom launcher that allows for the hiding of unwanted applications and channels made it much more usable for my grandparents.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to redirect YouTube voice input commands to SmartTube Next, so if I ever replace it, that'll be a factor in my decision too.

[acosmichippo@lemmy.world]

does anyone use their native smart TV UI anyway?

[zorque@lemmy.world]

Outside sarcastic internet forums? Probably, yeah.

[undulyunruly@lemmy.world]

Righteous!

[floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

LG and Samsung have been caught uploading screenshots of your HDMI inputs too, so it's not like it's any better

[hejmeddig@feddit.dk]

As long as the TV doesn't have internet access, it can't do much with it

[acosmichippo@lemmy.world]

source? from what I can find this is not proven, only hypothesized with hdmi inputs specifically.

[acosmichippo@lemmy.world]

which you can opt out from.

[hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl]

You could also move the TV closer to the sofa.

[twinklebreeze@lemmy.world]

How many square inches does that get me?

[boonhet@lemm.ee]

Most people do.

Mine's just old enough to not have ads but new enough to have apps for plex and other services I use. Next one is going to be disconnected and have some flashable Android box connected to it. Or even just Apple TV as that's still better than most native UIs.

[hule@lemmy.world]

You bastard, You made me try calculating it!

[hawk@lemmynsfw.com]

Informative post, thanks. I think a boxplot would have worked better here.

[bus_factor@lemmy.world]

Mine supports none, so I also don't have to worry about it.

[bus_factor@lemmy.world]

There's not much point in optimizing completely for price per inch, but when I bought my TV in 2013 I plotted this, and discovered a pretty sharp hockey stick in the graph at 70" and above. So I got a 65" TV. If my graph had looked pretty straight like yours I'd probably just get the biggest that is practical for the space.

[jdeath@lemm.ee]

yeah you'd have to get a rear projection DLP to get a bargain at that screen size back then. around 2010 i picked up a 73" DLP for less than a grand at costco, but i used some lucky discounts, or it would've been 1100 or so on sale.

most people don’t like those bulky TVs though, even back then. or even have room for them.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Apparently 75" is the sweet spot right now.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

I followed a roughly similar process but the flow was more like, "Here's a 65-inch TV on sale, let's bump up our 48."

[mahin@lemmy.world]

Same thing for 100 inch models now. Maybe it'll flatten out in a few years.

[hawk@lemmynsfw.com]

I don't, I'm not sure if I'm in the minority. I just plug in my laptop or cast my phone (jellyfin or any other misc streaming service).