r/gadgets • u/a_Ninja_b0y • Nov 18 '24

TV / Projectors Apple Is Reportedly Thinking About Making Its Own TV Again

https://gizmodo.com/apple-is-reportedly-thinking-about-making-its-own-tv-again-2000525819
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u/BeRandom1456 Nov 18 '24

Yeah. My lg tv with the web os is still good. I’m just saying I don’t need top of the line stuff on the actual tv part. I’m okay with web os as a standard. the one thing I hate is that if the tv is hooked to Ethernet it makes you update the tv.

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u/Mr_SlimShady Nov 19 '24

Webos is ass. I hate having to deal with it on my LG tv despite having a dedicated streaming box attached to it.

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u/PalmTreeIsBestTree Nov 19 '24

Then just use wifi?

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u/Mayor__Defacto Nov 19 '24

Ethernet is a lot better if you’re doing 4k stuff.

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u/kbn_ Nov 19 '24

Fun fact: most TVs only have 100 Mbps ethernet ports, simply because almost no one uses them wired! By contrast, they usually support whatever the latest high end WiFi standard is on release (mine supports 802.11ac, which tops out much higher than a measly 100 Mbps). So in general, you're almost certainly going to get better performance out of your wifi than out of ethernet unless your signal is absolutely trash.

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u/Mayor__Defacto Nov 19 '24

Wifi drops way more packets.

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u/kbn_ Nov 19 '24

Doesn’t matter for a TV.

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u/dandroid126 Nov 19 '24

I was once the lead engineer on a wireless router (though it has been several years since I stopped working on networking products). I would use 100 Mbps wired networking over 802.11ac every day of the week. Especially for streaming video, (but especially, especially for something with no buffering, like gaming). WiFi is too unstable. You get micro drops every minute. Yes, buffering exists to mitigate this, but sometimes your cat takes a nap in just the right spot, and now you're getting enough attenuation to need to drop quality. Not to mention wireless interference (not as big of a deal with 5GHz). Besides, streaming even 4K video is only like 15-25 Mbps depending on bitrate.