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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 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.
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.
Animated dildo makers?
I never thought I'd see the day where people were confused by how to use a TV without the smart features.
That would be just a monitor, wouldn't it? I thought most of these were just monitors with devices vesa mounted on the back...
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
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.
If it was stolen, it probably won't come with a remote. And don't many of these devices not have buttons anymore?
Commercial displays often still have buttons, at least on units that are designed to go inside.
It also doesn't say that this was stolen. It could have been a unit replaced during a remodel.
Oh, right, a "remodel" just like the one that "fell off the truck"
It was stolen.
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.
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
Whatβs there to fix? Just hook up a video input and youβre golden.
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 π
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.
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
Meh, cheap Roku stick or equivalent and it'll be fine.