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Sony Accused of Censoring Negative Feedback On Its Bravia TVs Ahead of Black Fri (ibtimes.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: Disgruntled owners of Sony's Bravia televisions have accused the company of "censoring" its community forums by preventing users from reporting technical issues. Several users say the company has locked threads containing complaints about its 4K televisions to suppress negative feedback in the run-up to the high-spending season. One of the threads removed by Sony contained 90 pages-worth of reports of input lag issues affecting its 2016 line of ultra-high definition (UHD) Bravia sets. The thread is titled, "Buyers beware, it looks almost the entire 4K 'HDR capable' TV line up from Sony are trash for 4K and HDR gaming" and clicking on the link now brings up an empty page with the error message: "the topic you are trying to access is not available."
The primary reason has to deal with all the image processing bullshit that the displays have. On some models, disabling the display manipulation and filtering bullshit will get rid of the input lag, on others it wont.
I'm not even sure why you would want to. Run a dumb HDMI cable into it from something that is competent, turn off any lag inducing image processing, and then other than on and off...I pretty much forget it even has any other capabilities.
I'm buying a TV for the screen. That's it. I don't care what else it does, and I certainly don't expect some piece of shit embedded apps to be worth anything new out of the box, let alone 5-10-15 years later.