we live in hell

I don’t even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they’re saying…hey do you want a worse experience?

  • @RampantParanoia2365
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    11 months ago

    What’s the practical difference between using a console and a smart TV? Aside from this one feature I mean, which I’ve never seen on mine.

    • Firestorm Druid
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      511 months ago

      The UI is better and not as slow as on smart TVs from what I’ve heard. Plus you can play games on the console and watch DVDs and Blurays if that’s your thing. Apart from that, not much.

      • @TangledHyphae
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        11 months ago

        This is true, because smart TVs have shitty processors, and consoles do not. Consoles are made for media, smart TVs have shitty embedded software on slow hardware, comparatively.

        • @[email protected]
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          511 months ago

          Sony famously pushed DVDs into the mainstream and won a generation of console wars by building a pretty good DVD player into the PS2 which also happened to cost not much more than most DVD players did at the time

          • BombOmOm
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            PS2 is STILL my only DVD player. Why fix what ain’t broken?

      • @[email protected]
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        411 months ago

        They also track you less. They still track you, but it isn’t even close to what a smart TV does.

    • @Katana314
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      Consoles tend to have higher power draw than a lot of simple devices. Depends on how much you care about environmental power savings or power bills.