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Useful Info On Dumbing Down Your TCL Roku TV (support.tcl.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Turning Off the Roku Features of Your TCL Smart TV

You have the option to disable the Roku features of your TCL Smart TV...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It probably lets you hide inputs you're not using.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The TCL TV I use for my PC monitor has a setting to always boot into an input

I do that and never see the smart features, shit I've never even connected it to the Internet

I just use it as a 42 in. 4k monitor

Edit: I should mention that depending on viewing distance the PPI of a monitor can be quite low before it starts having a noticeable degregation on the viewing experience. At my sitting distance of roughly 30in from the monitor a PPI of 105 (basically what a 42in 4k screen has) is fine as even at that distance individual pixels aren't visible. (45in at 4k is where you start being able to resolve them with 20/20 vision (we get about 1 arc minute of res from our eyes which some ugly math tells us that at a viewing distance of 30in we could determine details at about 100ppi (0.01 inches) in size))

Edit 2 For the really curiously nerdy:

Here's a little chart for max screen sizes for various seating distances based on PPI. The numbers are rounded (and start with a rounded number) and all of them have a FOV around 66 degrees.

Personally I wouldn't go for the max size on any of these and I'd go for a bit lower. Cheaper, dead pixels are harder to see, you may change your viewing distance based on comfort, minimizing screen door effect, etc, etc.