On: LCD TVs won’t see any further development

[KennyBlanken]

If you're using a 12 year old LCD panel, you're probably hobbling yourself with terrible resolution, response time, refresh rate, color gamut, viewing angle, backlight evenness, black level/contrast, etc.

It's absolutely bizarre how luddite HNers can be when it comes to keeping even remotely current on hardware.

[kitsunesoba → KennyBlanken]

If it meets the poster’s needs, what’s the problem? Better that old electronics continue to get used than for them to be junked.

Though my primary monitors are newer, I have monitors that are coming up on a decade old that get used as secondary monitors because I don’t need anything fancy for that use case… it just needs to be a functional screen. Some people have similarly undemanding needs for TVs.

[aidenn0 → KennyBlanken]

I do notice the backlight unevenness in very dark scenes. I also wish it had HDR.

Everything else is fine; it's got local dimming so the contrast is really good, and viewing distance is such that higher resolution would do nothing.

Response and refresh are essentially a non issue for movies -- it can handle 24Hz content just fine.

Why should I throw a perfectly good box full of hazardous waste in the trash?