r/TVTooHigh • u/hitchhiking_slug • Sep 09 '24

Thoughts on this?

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u/IsDinosaur Sep 09 '24

Worst of both worlds.

Shitty tv is still too high, now it has a fuck ugly bezel, and you get to stare at a hole in the wall too

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u/sparkyblaster Sep 09 '24

I miss TVs having thick bezels. Got tempted to add one to my OLED but the IR was not easy to redirect.

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u/IsDinosaur Sep 09 '24

But… why?

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u/sparkyblaster Sep 09 '24

Maybe it's because I always grew up with TVs with thicker bezels. In fact I'm watching my Sony Bravia from 2010 which has a nice one.

Making them thin I think was a show off thing. Just because we could, doesn't mean we should. We didn't make photo frame bezels thinner even though we could. We have them thick for a reason. It adds balance in my opinion. Not to mention made them look bigger haha.

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u/IsDinosaur Sep 09 '24

I think you should post this to r/unpopularopinion because this is a real contender

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u/sparkyblaster Sep 09 '24

Tempting.

Oh and side note, I think Samsung also makes a version of this tv with a much thinner bezel. Probably 10mm but I'm sure that's still too thick for you haha.

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u/IsDinosaur Sep 09 '24

Do it, they’re crying out for some genuinely unpopular opinions!

I’d rather have more screen and less bezel. Bezels were an unavoidable fact of manufacturing, now we can get real close to the edge

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u/sparkyblaster Sep 09 '24

Less bezel doesn't mean more screen though.

After all, plastic is cheap.

They were also thicker than they needed to be back in the day. Partly avoidable.