Might be because HDR isn’t enabled. But also, I think my OTA recordings always looked better then the TV Everywhere ones. If more stuff was OTA, I don’t think I’d bother paying for DirecTV Streaming. All I’d want is the History channel.
Might have just forgot what the TV looked like as well. Haven’t been watching much.
But I think I was watching a TV Everywhere show, that wasn’t working on the Apple TV, or very well on my laptop, and it looked better. The encoding settings were likely wrong.
But they might match pretty closely, without HDR enabled. HDR might be enabled on Apple TV. Well, now I might be in the no HDR camp. No way to know if I’d like it on an expensive TV, not worth it to me. Or probably anybody I know even. I might say they should compare the image with HDR off though. But they probably don’t care anyways. And I’ll likely forget as well.
They just want to sell more TVs, so the feature doesn’t actually need to make anything better. If some people don’t know that the HDR is useless on certain TVs, then people will likely over pay for TVs. Like some people would rather buy a name brand cheap TV, then a cheapo TV that might be actually better. I trust Consumer Reports more then myself, they most likely bought and tested TVs. Not enough money to do that myself. Not buying one TV, and then returning, then buying another, returning, and then trying to remember which one looked the best, so I can rebuy it. The store might get mad at you as well. But I’m also incredibly lazy.
Wouldn’t want to order a TV online either, as if it’s defective, returning might be a real pain. I got a more expensive TV before this Vizio, and it was defective, bought in town. But easier to return. Then I just bought a Vizio. I regretted it for a while, cause it seemed to have a really good picture, other then whatever was wrong with it. But now I think I was wise. Also, HDR could have been enabled on both of them. Would make sense it would have a possibly way better image if both TVs had HDR enabled.
The question is, what did they look like side by side, with HDR off? And other settings somehow matching as close as possible? And one thing that looks good to one person, might look bad to somebody else.
So it doesn’t really matter. If my TV dies, if I have enough money, and can buy one in town, I don’t know what brand size or anything I’ll get. I might just get the cheapest one I can find, maybe even a used one.
CRTs are still good for retro gaming, the games look how they are supposed to, and there’s less likely to be any input lag issues. I don’t have anywhere to put a CRT TV, not even one of those little ones I played games on as a kid.
Wonder if they sell little CRT TVs new anymore though, probably not. If I had room, and could get a new one, I might though. If they aren’t made anymore, then the price of used ones might be too much.
$150 for 19″ one used on eBay. They probably don’t make them anymore. I don’t want to play retro games enough or have any room anyways. I can still play them anyways, just might not look the same, and might have latency issues. The latency issues, you can probably make better to a point. Just got to mess with lots of settings.
But not sure I notice latency issues anyways. Would be nice to see them how they used to look though.
You could probably use video filters to sort of make it match. But that might use resources on the computer. And how close will it match with enough resources anyways?
There’s a 20″ used for around $50, but I just realized, I doubt you’ll get free shipping. For anything under $100. The higher price, more likely to have “free” shipping.
Found a new one, $300, and over $100 shipping. Well, no point for me then. Some brand I never heard of. Maybe in some places in the world, you can buy new CRT TVs, and that means, thanks to the Trump tax, it’ll cost a fortune here. Well, almost nothing is made here anyways. Just cost more here, because the market for one is so little.
Hmm, an Insignia, must have kept it in the box for a long time. Way too expensive as well.
Will a 5″ weather TV work? Might be able to find that some other site with “free” shipping.
Looks like it could, but black and white only. Can’t remember if that little TV I used was black and white only though. Might have been, no idea. But color would be kind of nice. Still nowhere to put it, not even a 5″ one. Too much crap in here. Too lazy to do anything about it.
Does it have to be a CRT TV though? What about a non HD LCD TV? If all I want is it look the same, without using video filters. Well, also, the TV being CRT would be like when I was playing games on the little CRT as a kid.
But a 7″ LCD TV thing, is only around $90. And “free” shipping. And takes up less room. Kind of like having a tablet. But what’s the resolution? And will the colors match a CRT?
Considering LCD isn’t CRT, the image probably won’t be exactly the same. Better off, using a screen I have.
Don’t care about how big the screen is. Just want it to look the same as it did.
Another option, is to get one of those hardware things, that make retro look better on newer TVs. Maybe there’s something just for computers with HDMI, other then using the computer itself. Well, you could use a different computer I suppose.
That is probably the best option anyways. If you have no room for any CRT TV. Even a small one.