It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV

Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by basch on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:36AM (#31040060)

>A dumb TV would not need firmware updates.

Post processing, and other parts of rendering are still occurring. For example, if you game, have an Xbox, and a Sony TV, VRR is a feature that gets added to the TV after you buy it.

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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by philistine on Friday April 15, 2022 @12:26PM (#31042138)

Can you point me in the direction of a TV that adds basic features like VRR through firmware?

I'm on my second Roku OS TCL tv, and no new features are ever added to those. The firmware updates strictly deal with the app environment.

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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by basch on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:14PM (#31045919)

A TCL Roku example would be the FALD engine. Firmware updates "enhance" the backlight algorithm. One update added it to Game mode.

VRR being added, as I stated, is something Sony has been doing this year.

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