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Samsung Busted for Cheating TV Test Benchmarks

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from the cheaters-never-win dept Modern reviewers put modern televisions through a gamut of different tests to determine display brightness, quality, power consumption, and other factors. Samsung, apparently thought it would be a brilliant idea to try and cheat the benchmarking … Read more

It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV

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from the more-isn’t-automatically-better dept Historically, “smart” TVs aren’t always particularly smart. They’ve routinely been shown to have lax security and privacy standards. They also routinely feature embedded OS systems that don’t age well, aren’t always well designed, don’t perform particularly … Read more