Mine's Acer V223HQL. It takes ~5 seconds to power on.
This is my disagreeable take, but the reason UIs are always slow is because slow UI imposes less cognitive load on users, and also developers. You're doing less, that's less work for your brain. Only very few impatient vocal minority wants quicker responses. I care, but clearly I don't belong to the majority.
Honestly thou zero shame. I absolutely love the monitor and won’t replace it till nec makes a good oled. it looks amazing easy on my eyes with zero fatigue perfect colour and made a great replacement for my nec Pa271w which I’ve had going on 15? years now and somehow it’s still looks better then most monitors of similar specs from today
Unless they enshittyfi I will continue getting nec monitors because while they are expensive they don’t make my eyes hurt like others
I have an Acer Ultrawide that takes an absurd amount of time to wake or mode switch. Literally enough time for me to say out loud "I hate this monitor, it takes an absurd amount of time to wake"
TVs do need software beyond the minimum to support the price asked. TVs are a cut throat, low margin, business. And the only way to eek out a bit more margin is to have some "feature" that makes your offering marginally better than your competitor's offering. That margin can be the difference between a going concern and going out of business.
So from the manufacturer's perspective they do "need" that extra software. Until someone establishes the 'spyware free, dumb tv" market that will continue to be the case I'm afraid.
As a counterpoint, I buy Sony TVs exclusively because they do a much better job of tuning the panel. They don't even make the panel. Sony just slaps Android on it. I'm definitely not the only one there. Sony has been known for their color accuracy for a long time now.
(Sony TVs even have a pretty decent user accessible API)
Insignia also makes spyware-free dumb tvs. They're Best Buy's in-house brand, which means you can at least get them in all of N.A. (maybe the same for Sceptre, I don't know). The last time I checked, they only had models up to 43". Probably meets the demands of the kiosk-mode market.
But as long as consumers keep buying them with the software, because they want to watch Hulu and YouTube and Netflix directly without purchasing an extra device (not unreasonable for the average consumer), TVs will come with the software.
You can argue all you want but the market always wins.
Signage exists, but it takes a lot of effort and research to buy compared to a “normal” TV. Normal stores just don’t have non-smart options, I bet most people don’t even know it exists.
I know several people who love not having to use extra boxes due to their smart TVs, I totally get it. I just wish it hadn’t pushed out all other options, especially on the high end where subsidies from deals are less necessary.
Best Buy sells dumb tvs (their in-house brand, "Insignia"), and their brick-and-mortar stores always have a bunch in stock. Options are limited to 32, 40, and 43" displays, though.
Yep. I've needed a bunch of dumb tvs this year (don't ask) and they're what I landed on. Best Buy overnight delivered a half-dozen ~$100 tvs to my doorstep for free (I bought them one at a time), and I also grabbed some off the shelves at two nearby stores.
Can you point me in the right direction so that I as someone that didn't know this exists up until now could learn enough to know what and where to buy?
