• schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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    2 months ago

    So what even is the point of the “thinnest” tv?

    Is that 1/8th of an inch somehow going to REALLY make your TV not fit on the mount over your fireplace or something?

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      2 months ago

      Consumerism requires that consumers be obsessed with the quest for the best.

      They achieve that by making you dissatisfied with your current whatever. Your car doesn’t have the latest and greatest entertainment system. It’s five horsepower slower than the new model, due to its age it has maintenance requirements.

      Your computer maxes out at 64 gigs of RAM. Your SSD is only 1 TB of storage and only works at 5,000 megabits per second where state of the art is 7,700.

      The new game that you like will only get 60 frames per second when you’re playing it. Better slap in a new $1,000 GPU or better yet buy a new $3,500 computer.

      The girl you’re seeing only has b cup titties, better talk her into getting a boob job. Get lipo. Go pay some surgeon $10,000 to make your dick a quarter of an inch bigger. Go buy a new house and new clothes, go on that big vacation and make sure you put it on Instagram so everyone knows how good you’ve got it.

      As long as you are not content with your current lot, consumerism has achieved its goal.

      • FuzzyRedPanda@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        Is this why people lost their minds and started hating bezels on their smartphones and bought phones with holes and “notches” in the screens instead? j/k…kinda

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        2 months ago

        Go pay some surgeon […]

        …go on…

        I do wonder if there’s also people whose current TV dies and they think “thin” is a great attribute for some reason and prioritize that over image quality or reputation or something else. Maybe someone with a small apartment or living room wants to maximize available space?

        It still might be silly sometimes/often but perhaps not purely an obsession with replacing working tech with marginally “better” tech.

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      There is really no need to make them that thin. TVs used to be a couple feet thick and wall mounting a TV meant cutting a big hole in the wall. 2 or 3 inches thick is nothing.

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      Thin things look nice in industrial design. It’s why phones stopped being chunky as soon as the battery packs could be scaled down. It’s why EV cars are in higher demand than EV trucks/UVs. Watches became a prestige product when they were thin enough to wear on a wrist instead of fitting in a pocket. Flashlights became a collectors hobby after they shrank down to be palm sized while retaining their brightness. Cameras became ubiquitous once they stopped needing a tripod and flash powder. Smaller things, thinner things, are more attractive to consumers.

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        2 months ago

        Things you wear or have to grab, sure.

        Now, why would I care if my tv is a bit thinner? It’s not like the thing is going to go anywhere, and I can’t even see how thin it is from the sofa.