I hate smart TVs. They are just outright worse than older TVs and you cannot tell me otherwise. If they were more open maybe but its an entirely closed system. I can do better with an external thing that isn't on my tv directly and have kodi on something.
I also think old games, those that were played when CRTs were around just feel better on said TVs. This isn't nostalgia to me, stuff genuinely looked better on them.
Those games were designed for those displays. For example, reds were very prone to leaking on older displays, so game artists used red very deliberately to depict certain effects and aesthetics. They counted on those reds to leak. Fast forward to emulation on modern displays and the old graphics suddenly look boring and flat.
On a previous TV my folks owned, there was this annoying auto brightening/darkening setting you actually COULDN'T turn off without accessing the secret engineer's menu. Newer TVs have AI-powered picture smoothening that makes anything shot at 24 FPS look jumpy and horrid. And on the current model we own for watching pirated Blu-Rays on, there is an aspect ratio setting, but ONLY for 4:3 and 16:9, not 1:85:1, meaning every movie we watch is slightly stretched vertically with nothing we can do about it.
I hate smart TVs. They are just outright worse than older TVs and you cannot tell me otherwise. If they were more open maybe but its an entirely closed system. I can do better with an external thing that isn't on my tv directly and have kodi on something.
I also think old games, those that were played when CRTs were around just feel better on said TVs. This isn't nostalgia to me, stuff genuinely looked better on them.
Those games were designed for those displays. For example, reds were very prone to leaking on older displays, so game artists used red very deliberately to depict certain effects and aesthetics. They counted on those reds to leak. Fast forward to emulation on modern displays and the old graphics suddenly look boring and flat.
You also had way more control over the picture.
On a previous TV my folks owned, there was this annoying auto brightening/darkening setting you actually COULDN'T turn off without accessing the secret engineer's menu. Newer TVs have AI-powered picture smoothening that makes anything shot at 24 FPS look jumpy and horrid. And on the current model we own for watching pirated Blu-Rays on, there is an aspect ratio setting, but ONLY for 4:3 and 16:9, not 1:85:1, meaning every movie we watch is slightly stretched vertically with nothing we can do about it.
At this point if you don't need the full on TV experience it might be worth to just buy a big display...