Meh, cheap Roku stick or equivalent and it’ll be fine.
So…. Remove the usb stick?
Are they actually just TVs with a USB stick? I thought I read about another restaurant TV and they were super stripped down, and designed towards displays and not to use like a TV.
What does that even mean though? All my TVs are driven by Roku or FireSticks. All I use is “the display”. What is missing as a TV that you would want these days? Are people somewhere still trying to receive channels?
This is obviously in Canada. Even if you are paying for cable, they are giving you a PVR or set-top box and the “TV” is just a monitor. I cannot think of a provider in Canada where you would need a tuner in your display.
Actually he got a good deal. Those screens are more expensive because they don’t come bundled with ad riddled toiletware, and they often have a longer lifespan to accomodate being on for so long every day. Depends on how much it got used already though.
Yeah, as long as you don’t mind a refresh rate of 5 frames a second…
Unless it’s a very weird special order display it’s probably still 60hz, that way the transitions between menu screens and animations look smooth.
I’d be surprised if anyone manufactures something slower than 30hz at all
Even the cheapest, most bottom-of-the-barrel LCD monitors from 15 years ago seem to still be 60. Matching the refresh rate to AC cycles per second makes sense.
Locally every mom and pop shop with digital menus are all basic televisions. Only chains like Burger King would have proper digital signage.
That said I think this is a commercial digital display with that brandless bezel.
I’d love one too!!
Yeah I wouldn’t mind being “scammed” with a commercial display.
Do these normally come with speakers?
I don’t think so.
Yep. You do need at least a sound bar, or a stereo system with these. But most inbuilt TV audio is pretty terrible to begin with, at least on low to mid end tvs.
Those were exactly my thoughts, if you are the kind of person who is looking for a commercial display for your TV, I doubt you would use the integrated speakers.
I never thought I’d see the day where people were confused by how to use a TV without the smart features.
Have you forgotten about VCRs? No one knew how to set them up properly and they only had 2 coax jacks.
And every time you went to someone’s house their VCR was blinking ‘12:00’.
I knew. I knew.
Then again as a Maiar I do have a bit of a leg up.
I set up a vcr when I was 8.
Well of course you did, it was probably the 1990’s
And everyone said you were a genius. Now you probably have depression.
Well you got the second part right.
What do you mean I put red in red and yellow in yellow, is just too confusing I already plugged in the power how much more complicated does it need to be.
I miss my radio
They didn’t have stereo??
It must have been 3 cables…
You guys must be young.
Anyone who used coax VCRs isn’t young…
Just set it to channel 3 and you’re gold.
Then some asshole released YPbPr and completely blew their minds.
That would be just a monitor, wouldn’t it? I thought most of these were just monitors with devices vesa mounted on the back…
That would be just a monitor, wouldn’t it?
No. The distinguishing feature between a monitor and a TV is that a TV has a tuner built into it.
There are other things like the variety of inputs and screen position settings on monitors, but those are mostly minor.
Who uses a tuner these days? Modern TV signal is just via Ethernet, and if you call that a tuner then my phone is a modem
Who uses a tuner these days?
Anyone who uses an antenna. There’s a bunch of decent channels, like the news, you can get with an OTA antenna.
Modern TV signal is just via Ethernet
No. What you just described is “modern cable TV”. OTA channels are digital signals also.
A lot of the newer commercial displays have signage players built into them. The content is probably cached locally.
I’ve seen Intel NUCs hanging from the backs of signage displays in Macca’s when I lived in Melbourne. I guess pushing updates to the menus would be easier. My company used Raspberry Pis in our showrooms - admittedly it was implemented horribly. They all used SD cards which ended up failing due to write wear.
Interesting about the new models, would be keen to get my hands on one 😅
Some of them are more like a giant, non-touch-screen tablets than monitors.
This probably just has this image saved into memory, and they can easily make it display something else.
Is the image burning into the screen not a concern on these though?
This displays often are not static, often displaying short video ads for seasonal items which take up the whole monitor.
Probably less than the burn-in of a taskbar or window header
Reminds me of our old typing PC with the WordPerfect header and footer burned into the orange phosphor
That colour had a smell, like a library.
Easily?
Yes.
There will either be a remote or just buttons on the display itself. You can select the source of what’s being displayed from a USB drive or SD card, that’s how it’s displaying the current image. Some of them have built-in casting options like chromecast.
If it doesn’t have something built it, it will have HDMI in, which makes a chromecast, roku, firestick, or even just a PC a quick option.
Anyway to fix that to become a tv? I once bought a tv that had at one time been used for this purpose. Once it was unplug from the device storing the info it just became a flat tv.
What’s there to fix? Just hook up a video input and you’re golden.
Could you maybe just connect a cheap android box and use it like that?
Or anything with an HDMI plug.
my previous flatmate bought one of these digital menus used and it had a single DP input, he used a Chromecast and a box that extracted HDMI audio via TOSLINK and then a HDMI to DP converter for the panel. It worked great and it was a very cheap solution for the time.
single DP input
That’s a contradiction. A single double?
DisplayPort not DoublePoops lol
Double Penetration*
I helped a friend hook one of these up to an old Linux machine. Super easy to do. Just uses it to watch Netflix or YouTube
How much you want to bet this is photoshpped by someone who listens to Darknet Diaries?
What does this mean? I’m aware of the podcast but only heard an ep or two.
There’s an episode intro where his dad goes to Mexico and buys some sketch TV from some guys, but when he gets home its a KFC menu
