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I'm not sure what amazes me more about this article. that idiot tech "journalist" and vergin editor nilay patel bought a $500 tv, that he did not know why you don't buy curved tvs, or that he didn't return it when he discovered his wife hated it. http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/1/30/14439362/samsung-curved-tv-review-un40k6250af-mistake quote:A few months ago I did something extremely out of character: I went out and bought a TV without obsessively reading product reviews. I just drove to Walmart and purchased the nicest-looking TV in stock for $500. It was a curved Samsung. This was an enormous mistake, and I should have just bought a Vizio E-Series. My wife Becky loudly reminds me of this mistake nearly every time we turn the TV on; she hates this product more than any other half-baked gadget I have forced into our lives. So I asked her to explain why, and she gave me this, which begins with what I can only describe as a vicious character assassination. — Nilay
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so you work for the Verge op?
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holy poo poo his wife just owns him repeatedlyquote:Several years ago I asked Nilay for a new suitcase for Christmas, expecting a sturdy Samsonite or Tumi. You know, a suitcase. Instead, I received what he had deemed the “prettiest one.” It was subsequently destroyed both aesthetically and functionally after its very first journey in the hands of American Airlines. quote:“I bought the prettiest one,” he said. Again. Those were the words uttered by my in-house technology expert, who quit his job as a lawyer for a new career writing technology reviews.
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Jan 31, 2017 02:41
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curved TVs are a gimmick so bad that i actually get annoyed just thinking about it. to willingly purchase a TV with it- well, he deserves all the anguish he gets
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Jan 31, 2017 02:47
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well, she married him, so who's the idiot?
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Jan 31, 2017 02:51
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also what the gently caress is Samsung's excuse for not using a matte screen? i don't care if it's a $500 TV, that's shameful
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Jan 31, 2017 02:54
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this definitely needed its own freaking thread
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not only is it a curved piece of poo poo, it comes preloaded with adware and constantly annoys you to update its firmware the future loving rules
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i love this review
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Marriage Verge Score 7.5
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lifetime supply of Pocky posted:Marriage Verge Score
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:well, she married him, so who's the idiot? you?
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lifetime supply of Pocky posted:Marriage Verge Score
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The Management posted:I'm not sure what amazes me more about this article. that idiot tech "journalist" and vergin editor nilay patel bought a $500 tv, that he did not know why you don't buy curved tvs, or that he didn't return it when he discovered his wife hated it. whats wrong with a curved telly
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The OP and everyone else in this forum linking to and reading this guy's content and talking about him like clockwork even tho they apparently hate him, you know, like he wants.
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Jan 31, 2017 16:08
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Genius editor.
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it probably works on some models but its mostly a new gimmick to sell tvs since there hasn't been any real advancement since 1080p became the norm for content distribution. a $500 tv is gonna suck rear end regardless of gimmicks
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Jan 31, 2017 16:09
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why dont they make the tv curved the other way
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hifi posted:why dont they make the tv curved the other way  i remember how psyched i was when i got a sony trinitron that had a flat screen back in the day
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Cold on a Cob posted:
still have one, weighs a loving ton due to how thick they had to make the glass
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Hammerite posted:whats wrong with a curved telly it's like a parabolic dish for concentrating reflections at your face. every light in the room is reflected at you and it magnifies motion so slight movements of your head create disproportionate motions of the reflections on the tv.
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:still have one, weighs a loving ton due to how thick they had to make the glass i had one back in college and i asked a friend to help me move it and he was like "what? it's just a tv, i can lift it by myself"
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Jan 31, 2017 16:46
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my parents' sarnsung tv will artifact and glitch if there's too much white being displayed in the scene
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so a guy bought a tv at wallmart and was amazed when it turned out to be poo poo?
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:my parents' sarnsung tv will artifact and glitch if there's too much white being displayed in the scene reverse racism!!
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Jan 31, 2017 17:06
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lol, just lol if you buy a tv for under $20k
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:well, she married him, so who's the idiot? I mean, we already know he chooses things based on aesthetics instead of quality
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Jan 31, 2017 17:23
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my new house will have a small theater with projector and stressless sofas in a stadium seating setup. I honestly don't understand why you would watch a movie any other way.
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Jan 31, 2017 17:23
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Sweevo posted:so a guy bought a tv at wallmart and was amazed when it turned out to be poo poo? also the guy is the chief editor of the internet's largest tech blog, who you would expect to not be a total idiot when buying tvs
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:also what the gently caress is Samsung's excuse for not using a matte screen? i don't care if it's a $500 TV, that's shameful glossy screens "pop" more because the blacks look darker but they're worse at everything else
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Jan 31, 2017 17:57
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The Management posted:also the guy is the chief editor of the internet's largest tech blog, who you would expect to not be a total idiot when buying tvs and laments not buying a different tv made by vizio, who i have never heard of but am assuming are equally bad
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Sweevo posted:and laments not buying a different tv made by vizio, who i have never heard of but am assuming are equally bad ultra lol at dude having a $500 tv budget
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i recently got a new 4k tv after looking at rtings.com and choosing the model that had the features i cared about so I guess I am smarter than the guy whose job it is to pay attention to tech poo poo. look at me. look at me. i am the nilay now
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Jan 31, 2017 18:06
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i have an old LG plasma that overheats i think and turns itself off after an hour, then back on again after about 10 minutes. its probably lovely caps on the power supply board. i could probably open up the back and see, but  i just dont watch tv for more than an hour at a time
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Linguica posted:i recently got a new 4k tv after looking at rtings.com and choosing the model that had the features i cared about so I guess I am smarter than the guy whose job it is to pay attention to tech poo poo. look at me. look at me. i am the nilay now
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qirex posted:vizios are usually considered the best of the poverty tier but they got bought by le eco so they'll probably be terrible real soon I got a $550 50" 4K Visio at Costco back in June. Works for me, it's for baseball and hockey.
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curved tvs exist for the same reason samsung edge phones exist: to make up a problem that didn't exist that they "solved" with a new tech. taht said, the lucky goldstar curved screens are pretty mild, but the samsung ones are curved a lot and look bad and dumb
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I'm trying to buy a TV and it's loving terrible Like they all monitor your viewing habits now gotta have more garbage data for the garbage data throne
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:still have one, weighs a loving ton due to how thick they had to make the glass same. it was free and picking it up was a pain in the rear end. I don't like how television becomes the focal point of a room so it lives in the closet and is only used for old games
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