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373 points h2odragon | 7 comments | 19 Oct 24 17:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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rglullis ◴[19 Oct 24 19:05 UTC] No.41889863[source]▶
I am seriously considering creating a dropship company focused exclusively on buying and selling electronic components that are sold for parts and people can assemble them at home, Ikea-style.

I would start with selling 50" and 65" inch "dumb" TVs. Just the panel, a nice enclosure and a board with an IR receiver, TV tuner and HDMI outputs. BYO top box and Soundbar. I wonder how fast it would take to get 10000 orders.

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jbombadil ◴[19 Oct 24 19:52 UTC] No.41890259[source]▶
I would love to buy a TV with a great image quality, a bunch of ports, image tweaking and nothing else. No wifi, no cellular, no internet, no speakers.

Honestly? Doesn’t even need a remote provided CEC works fine with my Apple TV.

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1. cassianoleal ◴[19 Oct 24 20:29 UTC] No.41890544[source]▶
How would you tweak the image via CEC over the Apple TV?
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2. throwup238 ◴[19 Oct 24 20:37 UTC] No.41890598[source]▶
Potentiometers on the side. (I’m only half joking)
3. meindnoch ◴[19 Oct 24 22:36 UTC] No.41891329[source]▶
HDMI CEC v1.3 specification, page 38: "Device Menu Control"
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4. account42 ◴[21 Oct 24 12:54 UTC] No.41903647[source]▶
Ideally you do not need to tweak the image. All I need is a calibrated display, the rest is handled by my computer producing the input.
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5. cassianoleal ◴[21 Oct 24 19:31 UTC] No.41907595[source]▶
Do you watch TV through a computer? But also, how does that make the Apple TV able to tweak the image?
6. cassianoleal ◴[21 Oct 24 19:32 UTC] No.41907603[source]▶
Is there an Apple TV app for that? Or do you expect Apple to bake this into tvOS?
7. jbombadil ◴[21 Oct 24 20:19 UTC] No.41908122[source]▶
I wouldn't. What I was picturing is that the TV has buttons on its frame (like your monitor). You can use those to change sources, tweak the image and any other simple "setting" the tv might have. Those are infrequent enough operations that I don't mind standing up and walking to the TV to do it.

Of course if it did come with a simple remote that'd be fine too. I'm not against a remote.