Exactly; why would I need any smart features, when my computer is already running all the apps I would ever want to use on my TV?
You can’t play any AAA games on a smart TV alone—and nobody wants to type with a remote control, hook up an antenna, or pay for cable/satellite anymore—so if you’re going to own a TV you basically need to hook a computer up to it if you want to do anything useful with it.
And If you’re a home theater geek, then all you need is a half decent GPU and you can still get all the fun features working like 144Hz, HDR, Dolby Vision/Atmos, etc. using a single HDMI cable. It’s never been easier.
A PC could also come with spyware etc., that is not an inherent solution. Acting as if TVs can only be dumb is absurd, a cable in between changes nothing.
PCs don’t come with spyware when you build them yourself. Even if you don’t feel like doing that and rather take the chance on a pre-built, the first thing you should be doing is wiping the hard drive and installing a fresh copy of your OS of choice regardless. Privacy-conscious people don’t just use whatever bloated copy of Windows comes with the machine.
Also, I never said “TVs can only be dumb”. That’s not the issue. Again, the issue is that every smart TV is spying on you. The built-in smart features would be fine for 99% of people if they just weren’t so god damn nosy.
And before you point out that the average person isn’t going to build a PC/wipe a hard drive, to be fair the average person doesn’t care about being spied on, therefore nothing I said applies to them.
Exactly; why would I need any smart features, when my computer is already running all the apps I would ever want to use on my TV?
You can’t play any AAA games on a smart TV alone—and nobody wants to type with a remote control, hook up an antenna, or pay for cable/satellite anymore—so if you’re going to own a TV you basically need to hook a computer up to it if you want to do anything useful with it.
And If you’re a home theater geek, then all you need is a half decent GPU and you can still get all the fun features working like 144Hz, HDR, Dolby Vision/Atmos, etc. using a single HDMI cable. It’s never been easier.
Why exactly do you need anything extra if the TV runs all the streaming apps etc. on it’s own…?
Why are you asking this? Did you forget to read the article before commenting? Do you even know what this topic is about?
A PC could also come with spyware etc., that is not an inherent solution. Acting as if TVs can only be dumb is absurd, a cable in between changes nothing.
PCs don’t come with spyware when you build them yourself. Even if you don’t feel like doing that and rather take the chance on a pre-built, the first thing you should be doing is wiping the hard drive and installing a fresh copy of your OS of choice regardless. Privacy-conscious people don’t just use whatever bloated copy of Windows comes with the machine.
Also, I never said “TVs can only be dumb”. That’s not the issue. Again, the issue is that every smart TV is spying on you. The built-in smart features would be fine for 99% of people if they just weren’t so god damn nosy.
And before you point out that the average person isn’t going to build a PC/wipe a hard drive, to be fair the average person doesn’t care about being spied on, therefore nothing I said applies to them.
Hope this clears things up.
Yes, clears things up. You/we are not talking about average people, you are right then.