I don’t know how people buy TVs now.
You go into Best Buy, they have 50 TVs on the wall. None of them have any signs that would tell you what model it is, what specs it has, how much it costs, or anything.
None of the TVs have buttons on them that could be used to navigate the interface and there’s not a remote to be seen.
They don’t even have the box for the display TV on the shelf underneath it.
Are you expected to just talk to an employee or do all of your research elsewhere? There’s no other way to find out info about the models available in store?
And there’s *a lot* of specs that matter now that basically didn’t exist the last time I bought a TV — quantum dots, mini LED, high refresh rates, HDR support, etc.
And that’s just talking about the panel itself, not to mention the differences between each TV OS.
It would be helpful if the store offered some information to help customers make a decision. And access to a remote so they can tinker around with each OS.
For anyone curious, I’ve settled on the 55-inch TCL QM6K. It runs Google TV, but you can set it up in “basic” mode without all the Google TV features. I believe it shows a banner suggesting you enable it when navigating the menus, but the other TV I was looking at runs Fire TV and I don’t believe it offers a similar feature.
