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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by lagrange77 on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:01PM (#35487572)
PRIMITV
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:15PM (#35487730)
Nice. That is an absurdly good name.

I think it needs just a bit of fool-proofing in a couple dimensions though:

(1) Ideally, the brand would also be able to speak to the segment of people who aren't going to get the wordplay.

(2) Also, there's the age-old pronunciation question. Is it just "Primitive"? Is it "Primi - Tee - Vee"?

It's quite close to being a great brand, though. I wonder if it just needs a skillfully-placed lowercase letter, or a couple dots, or something — maybe some sort of subtle variation could solve both problems.

Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by dcow on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:36PM (#35488564)
I think it’s perfect.
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by bobthepanda on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:47PM (#35488671)
Eh, this isn’t that crazy.

Like, most people probably don’t think about the fact that Uniqlo is short for “unique clothing” and yet it’s the #3 clothing retailer in the world.

Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by lloeki on Saturday April 08, 2023 @05:44AM (#35491896)
A good example, for which people also don't care about the pronunciation, which, being a japanese brand, is supposed to be ユニクロ (yunikuro) [jɯnikɯɾo]
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by Dalewyn on Saturday April 08, 2023 @01:14AM (#35490745)
>Also, there's the age-old pronunciation question. Is it just "Primitive"? Is it "Primi - Tee - Vee"?

PrimiTV.

As in: DirecTV.

Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by mholt on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:06PM (#35487618)
I would buy a good offline TV called "Primitv" in an instant
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by askvictor on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:32PM (#35487908)
That's really nice. Though there's a _slight_ chance that Amazon's lawyers might come knocking due to the similarity of Prime (TV?).
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by taftster on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:29PM (#35487875)
Oh, that's just beautiful. You're hired.
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by pedalpete on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:06PM (#35488848)
PRIVATY? PRIVATV?
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by svilen_dobrev on Saturday April 08, 2023 @02:51PM (#35496377)
privyTv :)
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by j3s on Saturday April 08, 2023 @02:12AM (#35490973)
damn bro u out here just dropping names like this for free??? that's a $10k idea
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by deesep on Saturday April 08, 2023 @03:17AM (#35491281)
This is an awesome name. Love it!
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by Grimburger on Saturday April 08, 2023 @03:53AM (#35491463)
Absolutely topnotch, you could have a bright future in branding.
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by gnarbarian on Saturday April 08, 2023 @04:22AM (#35491578)
voting for this. it's perfect
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by lagrange77 on Saturday April 08, 2023 @05:28AM (#35491824)
Thanks for the positive feedback, guys! It was kind of a spontaneous inspiration.
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by pupdogg on Saturday April 08, 2023 @09:56AM (#35493138)
Hi lagrange77, I like this name too. Thank you for the suggestion. It's a bummer that primi.tv is already taken, but I'm fairly optimistic that I can find another easy-to-remember domain. Also, I'll do some digging beforehand to make sure that I'm not overstepping any existing trademarks or copyrights. If everything works out, I'd like to give you one of these displays if and when I get the prototype unit off the ground. Would that be okay?
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by lagrange77 on Saturday April 08, 2023 @02:17PM (#35496077)
Hi pupdogg, thank you very much for the generous offer!

Actually, I don't own a TV, and besides, it would be the coolest story to tell when people ask me where I got this device. So I would like to gladly take you up on the offer IF you actually end up using the name, everything worked out as you hoped and you're in serial production.

I really like the design btw, clean, uniform bezels and logo-less! That's what i always look after, for my computer displays.

I'll drop you an email. Thanks again :)

Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by pupdogg on Saturday April 08, 2023 @03:32PM (#35496755)
Sounds good. Thank you again! For time being, I was able to purchase and reserve primitv.co and primitv.net
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by zamnos on Saturday April 08, 2023 @03:21PM (#35496662)
Good domains are hard to come by. I've poked at getting primi.tv and will report back.
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by pupdogg on Saturday April 08, 2023 @03:42PM (#35496861)
That would be awesome! Thank you. For time being, I was able to purchase and reserve primitv.co and primitv.net
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by zamnos on Saturday April 08, 2023 @03:26PM (#35496705)
What do you think of primitive.tv? That's available via godaddy.
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by GoblinSlayer on Monday April 10, 2023 @05:40AM (#35510613)
There's a precedent with antismartphone, so maybe you can reuse it for tv.
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by atomize on Saturday April 08, 2023 @12:37PM (#35495011)
Neat endeavor. PrimiTV is pretty good.

I wanna play the name game.

Perhaps something along the lines of:

'NOAD' - noad.tv - I could see a regular googler search for 'no ad TV'

Or some other word for 'dumb', 'not smart'. Like dunce.tv. dolt. simpleton. dullard. etc.

Maybe a play on the TCP error ENETUNREACH? hehe.