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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > Amazon Fire TV & Fire Stick - Price drops, new generation and a new UI
 
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May 16, 2003

IT'S LEGO, not Legos. Heh

bull3964 posted:

There's more to a TV than panel and smart interface.

How quality are the components like power supply? Are they using a high quality backlight with a wide color spectrum matched to the panel? Is there any local dimming involved and if so, how good are the algorithms? Are the optical spreaders for the backlight uniform? How well does the TV deinterlace, upscale, or detect frame cadence? How fine grained are the picture controls? How wide is the variance in output from set to set?

Some of this stuff matters less the smaller you go and it's generally hard to find a quality TV from any manufacturer under 40".

Generally it's true though that people don't care too much about image quality. That's one of the reasons why the TV market is in the sate it is in today.

99% of people don't care or even understand what you just said. If you go to a store to buy a tv and the salesman says "this one is $399 but this one has better detect frame cadence and the algorithms are top notch and it's $999!" I'm p sure 99.99% of people still buy the $399 because they aren't spergy autists.

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May 16, 2003

IT'S LEGO, not Legos. Heh


 It's probably a long shot but if you happen to have TMobile, you can call them and tell them signal in your house is bad and they'll send you a pretty drat nice router for free.

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