Their self developed UIs are also garbage. My Samsung tv remote has no source button and source menu is hidden in home all the way to the left. If I make the mistake of clicking on an unrecognized device, it spends forever trying to detect it.
I may just be complaining about smart tvs in general, but my old TCL was not this much of a pain to use.
Man, the UI is a clusterfuck. A lovecraftian horror show.
At least the feet are stable.
Roku considers itself and ad company more than a hardware/software company, also.
Sony is a good brand right? WiFi drops out at the most random times. The router is touching differences away.
The UI lags as it tries to connect to netflix to download all the latest "trends". So you have to wait many-frustrating seconds upon turning on the TV to actually use any UI feature. You can't even change the channel during that time.
Firmware upgrades when it wants.
BBC iPlayer has a dogtag that appears on any BBC channel "Press Green to watch from beginning" that intrudes any program witb no opt-out setting.
Sigh.
Probably not your problem, but too close can actually be much worse than a moderate distance away. Radios struggle with dynamic range, and overly strong signals can be as bad as weak ones.
If its closer than 2m, attach a cable.
Never buy an older person something other than a Panasonic. You won't get bothered by your mom/dad/grandpa compared to any other TV manufacturer. The amount of TVs we've replaced with Panasonics because kids bought their parents a cheap TV and left them to their own was just sad.
I don't understand how anybody on this site would consider using the underpowered mess in their TV.
On my other television I have an Apple TV, and the only real difference is that I like the Apple remote more.
All smart tvs take a few seconds to start up, fill in the UI and that sort of stuff. My LG certainly does and samsungs seem to as well.
Firmware upgrades have so far all been "Would you like to update?"
And given it's basically android, I'm pretty confident that the apps won't go away after a couple of years like they seem to on most tv manufacturers proprietary OS's.
Personally I couldn't be happier.
2. In which case why single out Sony? This behaviour is common across all brands.
3. Pretty sure the "I want everything as separate devices that do their one thing well" war has been lost to a large extent. Apple TV seems popular but the number of separate devices sold is an order of magnitude lower than the number of TVs shifted per year. See also point and click cameras vs mobile phones.
Barring Playstations, I don't buy Sony anymore.
Wonderful hardware, always with a premium fit and finish. But there's always something wrong with a Sony product. Sometimes ridiculous software design, sometimes ridiculous and unreliable hardware design. But it's always fucking something with them. They always get 90% of the way to an amazing product, and then fuck it up.
Well, the camera and battery that is. My huawei and iphone vastly outperform the samsungs I had.
I grade Samsung on the same level as Sony Xperia: great phones, but one too many things that are failing to be acceptable
(Had a Samsung s7, s20 and now an s22 from work, not by choice)
I thought after a while I was imagining things, but I pluged my laptop into our old "dumb" sony and it was showing to the screen in less than one second.