THE VIDEO SHELF · non-smart displays
Smarter than a Smart TV! (Raspberry Pi Inside)
Jeff Geerling looks at a Sharp NEC commercial display with a slot for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module. It is a large screen without built-in smart TV features or tracking.
Why HN readers recommended it
Brought up in smart TV complaint threads as a real-world 'dumb display' alternative.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Jeff Geerling
- Topic
- non-smart displays
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Just get a "display". See [VIDEO] where Jeff Geerling talks about how great a TV his non-TV is. He has an NEC UHD Professional Display M551. He gets to control the software on the embedded Raspberry Pi. It's about $1700 but I think it's worth …
ararar on Hacker News · 2023-01
In The Cost of Cheap TVsA recent Jeff Geerling video dug into this subject. [0]. Sharp NEC [1] makes and sells TVs without any "smart" junk (they're mainly aimed at being 24/7 monitors/displays in businesses). They're significantly more expensive than consumer TVs, but part of that is likely to accommodate …
modriano on Hacker News · 2023-03
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