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So one of my three year old kids smashed my 65" LED flatscreen with a die-cast model of the Atlantis shuttle. I was fine with this and was not planning on buying a replacement in any haste but my wife keeps complaining. Would prefer at least 65"+ and absolutely not a smart tv. What suggestions do you have, companies to avoid, etc. Help me SN, you are probably my only hope of not just buying another spysung.
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(Score: 2) by vux984 on Saturday January 20 2018, @09:39PM (1 child)
Unfortunately, yes. My TV remote only has a power toggle button, and it has an input button that brings up an onscreen display and then you use the arrow keys to select source, and click ok to make a selection. That's the only way to use the remote that it comes with.
Fortunately, in addition to the commands "power toggle", "input select", "up", "down", and "ok"; my TV *also* has direct commands for on, for off, and for each input, which I can use with my universal remote.
But yeah, I've worked with a few TVs where the direct commands were lacking and all you could do was 'script' source changes using the input/arrow/ok buttons, and have the remote remember states.
I owned one TV that inexplicably had direct commands for SOME of the inputs but not all of them -- so to get to the component source I had my remote programmed to direct set hdmi3 (which was adjacent to component1), and then cycle source once. So at least that didn't require remembering state, but it was still idiotic.
The logitech harmony remotes support remembering state, and scripting source changes to support those kind of devices and it even has a wizard to use when things get out of sync to get back into sync.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @08:15PM
My TV actually has a hybrid approach. It has a direct command to change to a different type of source (antenna, hdmi, composite, etc) and then cycle commands to switch between those. Changing input type always goes to the first one, so I can do composite, hdmi, cycle, cycle and it will always end up on hdmi #3. My TV is a decade old now but I bet many TVs still use a similar system. Mine is a Vizio.