I will die on this hill too. I want dumb TVs to be a thing again. Just give me ALL the I/O and I’m good. I’ve got quite a few older TVs from my previous job, but sadly none of the ones I have have any sort of audio output. (No 3.5mm, no bluetooth, nothing.)
I haven’t bought one in like 15 years but modern universal remotes are pretty cool. The Logitech Harmony remotes do all kinds of cool shit, though they require a computer to program and they are not cheap. Then there’s always the old dumb universal remotes that get the job done and cost like $10.
Oh my goodness. I didn’t think I was going to get worked up about this. The last three TVs to enter my house have a weird joystick. None of them are in the same place. None of them work he same way.
Give me 6 real buttons: power, input, channels up/down, and volume up/down. Access to the menu would be great, but isn’t as high a priority.
OH, that’s why everyone’s downvoting me. I forgot those even came on TVs. I only have monitors with those.
Yeah, the row of side buttons that TVs used to rock is better for sure.
Could you possibly tap into the speaker output inside the TV, and use it as a high output for an amplifier? Or possible get some kind of analog to digital converter perhaps?
I did misspeak a bit there. A couple of them do have Toslink, and I bought a digital to analog converter to use with my analog speakers and it was the worst experience I’ve ever had. I could never get the audio to work correctly. Was always cutting out, producing digital fry, and all sorts of other fun annoyances that I would have to fix on the fly. I gave up on any further effort after that.
I do know that there are HMDI audio extractor thingies out there. Might try one in the living room that’s part of an HDMI splitter. Well, more like a selector so I only have to run one cable into the TV instead of multiple.
(My electronic shelving is a few feet away from the TV so easier to hide one cable VS multiple.)
Huh, that’s the first I’ve heard of stripping an audio signal from an HDMI cable. Makes since though, it’s just digital audio going through copper none the less. What’ll they think of next?
I will die on this hill too. I want dumb TVs to be a thing again. Just give me ALL the I/O and I’m good. I’ve got quite a few older TVs from my previous job, but sadly none of the ones I have have any sort of audio output. (No 3.5mm, no bluetooth, nothing.)
I want more than one flimsy button.
What?
One button for everything on the damn TV. I want volume and input at least. I lost the remote again.
I haven’t bought one in like 15 years but modern universal remotes are pretty cool. The Logitech Harmony remotes do all kinds of cool shit, though they require a computer to program and they are not cheap. Then there’s always the old dumb universal remotes that get the job done and cost like $10.
I didn’t mention anything about buttons? I like buttons. Buttons are nice.
Oh my goodness. I didn’t think I was going to get worked up about this. The last three TVs to enter my house have a weird joystick. None of them are in the same place. None of them work he same way.
Give me 6 real buttons: power, input, channels up/down, and volume up/down. Access to the menu would be great, but isn’t as high a priority.
OH, that’s why everyone’s downvoting me. I forgot those even came on TVs. I only have monitors with those. Yeah, the row of side buttons that TVs used to rock is better for sure.
Could you possibly tap into the speaker output inside the TV, and use it as a high output for an amplifier? Or possible get some kind of analog to digital converter perhaps?
I did misspeak a bit there. A couple of them do have Toslink, and I bought a digital to analog converter to use with my analog speakers and it was the worst experience I’ve ever had. I could never get the audio to work correctly. Was always cutting out, producing digital fry, and all sorts of other fun annoyances that I would have to fix on the fly. I gave up on any further effort after that.
I do know that there are HMDI audio extractor thingies out there. Might try one in the living room that’s part of an HDMI splitter. Well, more like a selector so I only have to run one cable into the TV instead of multiple.
(My electronic shelving is a few feet away from the TV so easier to hide one cable VS multiple.)
Example: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095H9NF35/
Huh, that’s the first I’ve heard of stripping an audio signal from an HDMI cable. Makes since though, it’s just digital audio going through copper none the less. What’ll they think of next?
You can always buy a really really big computer monitor