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LaminatorX
on Sunday March 30 2014, @06:38PM
from the won't-someone-think-of-the-stores dept.
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Angry Jesus writes:
Global TV sales have been falling for years dropping 7% to 238M in 2012, another 6% in 2013 to 225M and are expected to drop at least 11% to below 200M in 2014. A major component of the drop seems to be a steep reduction of demand in China beginning in the last two quarters of 2013.
This could be good news for anyone looking to buy a new tv set, manufacturers are expected to cut prices and accelerate the introduction of new technology like OLED, 4k UHDTV and dolby high dynamic range to try to stimulate buying.
How long have you had your current TV, and what would it take to entice you to upgrade?
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by hottabasco on Sunday March 30 2014, @06:43PM
I don't own one at all. As for what would it take to get me to buy one:
1. Shorter advertising breaks
2. Content I actaually want to watch
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Kilo110 on Sunday March 30 2014, @07:00PM
I hook mine up to a chromecast. I then stream what I want to see.
(Score: 1) by DeKO on Monday March 31 2014, @04:40AM
I bought mine to play video games and watch Netflix on my WDTV (mostly replaced recently by a chromecast). The cable company however keeps nagging me every month or so to buy a channels package, but they stop insisting as soon as I mention that "I don't have a TV, but most definitely will upgrade my account as soon as I get one". Only once the guy was so puzzled he wanted to know how I could possibly not have a TV, and I plainly said "there's nothing good to watch when I sit down to watch; Netflix however always has my favourite shows on".
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Fluffeh on Sunday March 30 2014, @07:56PM
I have a 50 inch plasma I bought a number of years back - and I have no plans to upgrade it. I have a Western Digital HDLive media player connected to it and the sound system in the lounge room and it works a charm. Whenever I get a new DVD, I go straight to the server, make a .mkv and add it to the server library, same goes for shows - actually especially for shows.
I actually cracked it when trying to watch Stargate SG1 from the discs that I own - each time you put the disc in, you are forced to sit through the usual "Piracy is a crime..." stuff, which is annoying, but meh, okay - but then the folks that made the discs decided to throw on other advertising - Stargate Atlantis trailers, the Stargate Video game and other rubbish. On one of the seasons there are FIVE advertisements that I could not skip watching with each disc going in.
That was the final straw. Now I shift all the stuff that I buy - and I buy quite a bit as I would like to actually think that if they can make more money off the shows that I like, chances are that they will KEEP making the sorts of shows that I like.
Anyhow, no plans to upgrade my TV until it dies somehow, then maybe one of the 4K sets if the price is reasonable, but I sort of doubt that it will be for the foreseeable future.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Sunday March 30 2014, @09:28PM
Ditto. Pretty much for the same reasons.
I have a 74" slim rdp. It has all the HDMI inputs I could want and every other one that exists. There is no reason for me to change it. It works perfectly fine for me with my vision, more than adequate size, and inputs.
I'm looking for 50" screens to power my new multi-monitor desktop. They've been getting pretty good and I might do so at the end of this year. It's the lower size screens that are seeming to get a lot better in quality compared to the bigger ones.
I will only be looking for a 74"+ TV when the one I have dies. Not a day sooner.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by pjbgravely on Sunday March 30 2014, @08:46PM
Currently I have a 27" CRT in the living room and a 5 year old 32"LCD in the bedroom. I have no use for or will probably buy a new TV in a long time.
(Score: 1) by hash14 on Sunday March 30 2014, @09:52PM
Same here. All I could want to watch is on the internet, and I can download anything I want from youtube, play it in vlc, pause and rewind far more instantaneously than I see friends who struggle with DVRs can (not to mention that those things waste so much power), and I can watch while multitasking, share them with friends and store them indefinitely and on any device that I could want. Why would I possibly want to use a medium like the television which is so inferior?
Lately all I've been watching anyway are tournaments for Dota 2, TF2, etc. and it's not like you would ever see legacy entertainment embrace free internet streaming (with notable exceptions of course) let alone Youtube itself. So in addition to being available on a much better medium, we're not supporting the corrupt media and cable industries to boot (minus the internet link of course). Very nice.
(Score: 1) by zsau on Sunday March 30 2014, @10:14PM
I have an old 24" lcd computer screen which I use when I want to watch some downloaded/streamed tv. Unless the screen broke I doubt I could be enticed to use a new tv (for the record, I use a G1 as my mobile phone and when it breaks, I will probably use the other G1 I've got lying around till it breaks).
I simply don't get the point of buying things because what you've got isn't the newest or perfectly suited to the task. Some people say, Ah, yes, but with this it will be more efficient. But which is more efficient, having something lying around that you don't use—throwing it away while it's still useful—or using it? Especially when most of this stuff is the kind of thing you can't give away...
It works, it's good enough, who cares beyond that?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Sunday March 30 2014, @10:22PM
I don't care about advertising breaks. TVs aren't just for watching TV you know; mine is mostly used as a Netflix display screen. There's no advertising there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 31 2014, @12:35AM
I think "1. automatic removal of all form of advertising" would be a better answer
number 2. is harder... there probably is things I would want to watch somewhere on the internet just waiting for me to download, but how do I find it? What is needed is better discovery of things you want, or I guess you can rephrase it as automatic hiding things that you probably don't want. If a tv program which title sounds interesting is of the kind that stretches 15 minutes to 2 hours by first telling what they are gonna say, then saying it, and then telling what was told ... then please don't show that program in the list. I will just be depressed of all the wasted time.
Perhaps there is nice websites that automagically can make a list for me with magnetlinks to things I want to see (without me giving any personal information to them), and I just haven't found it? which leads me to
3. "do I really want to see more tv"?
If the current tv my family happen to have would break, wouldn't that be a good thing? if there is something I *really* want to see [now, and can't wait for later.. some other year.. maybe...], then I can see it on the computer screen.
for me to buy a new tv I guess the answer would be: the old one breaks + the new one is twice the size but costs half what the old one did but still is guaranteed to work for 20 years + block the ads on the commercial channels + can use all the new file formats (vp9/opus etc) on the usb stick + some sexy new technology like true holographic video, nah who am I kidding ;-) but like 4K resolution at least + a built in bittorrent client that is easily handled with the remotecontrol perhaps?
the last part would require an network connection that is somehow guaranteed to not be possible to use for spying on me or my viewing habits or phonehome etc, so I guess the tv have to have only open source software in it then, no unknown firmware that can suddenly be changed to something evil... Maybe it is better to skip network connection on the tv.
Now you might say that wouldn't a separate pc besides the tv (or 50" monitor) be better? but I don't want any other boxes next to the tv!
The truth is though that if our current tv breaks I will probably just try to repair it, and maybe having more fun doing that than actually seeing tv (even if I fail...)
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday March 31 2014, @08:39PM
there probably is things I would want to watch somewhere on the internet just waiting for me to download, but how do I find it?
Perhaps there is nice websites that automagically can make a list for me with magnetlinks to things I want to see (without me giving any personal information to them), and I just haven't found it?
I like torrentz.eu.
(Score: 1) by FakeBeldin on Monday March 31 2014, @12:32PM
Own a TV (one of the first decent-prices LED tvs available around here), but don't have a connection.
I have it for:
- watching DVDs / movies / series locally
- playing games on gamecube/wii.
I don't see myself paying to get a bunch of channels I don't want to watch anyway (living abroad in a country where you won't get channels in English, nor in my native language). By now, I'm addicted to other things. So will I ever replace it? Errr... perhaps when it's broken. Before then? Naaah.