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China's OnePlus is Going To Start Making TVs (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the further-expansion dept.

Chinese electronics company OnePlus, known for making inexpensive but high-end smartphones, is entering a new line of business: making TVs. From a report: Best known for its phones, China's OnePlus also has a small catalog of really good accessories like wireless earphones and surprisingly awesome backpacks, though nothing as complex or expensive as a television set. In announcing the news on the OnePlus online forums, company chief Pete Lau describes it as "the first step in building a connected human experience." [...] OnePlus has decided to make its entry point into this market the TV itself, which has always been at the center of home entertainment, though often with the help of other connected devices. Reading Lau's teaser announcement, the OnePlus TV -- which so far only has a project name, no timeline or specs have been revealed -- will serve as the connectivity hub for OnePlus' future vision of the smart home.

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  1. If OnePlus reads this by Miamicanes · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Some features that would cost little to nothing to add, but would get some people to actively seek them out:

    * Explicit, native support for BOTH 1080p50 and 1080p59.94 (AFAIK, *all* 60fps is REALLY 59.94fps for the sake of backwards-compatibility with NTSC). Seriously, it's 2018. Why the FUCK do we still have TVs sold in America that reject 720p50 and 1080p50 over HDMI, EVEN THOUGH the EXACT SAME GODDAMN HARDWARE (with slightly-tweaked firmware) can do both framerates on TVs sold elsewhere?

    * By extension, explicit native support for both 25fps & 30fps "4k" modes (and ideally, 48, 50, 60, 72, 96, 100, 120, and/or 144, bandwidth permitting). Even if it requires sacrificing color depth (due to HDMI-imposed constraints, and/or PWM-imposed constraints).

    * Ability to natively be driven at 1080p100 and 1080p120 via HDMI2.x. Or better yet, support for AMD FreeSync or NVidia G-sync. I mean, hell... if a TV is "internally" 100/120hz ANYWAY, why the FUCK arbitrarily limit it to 50/60fps HDMI framerate? Expose it directly as supported display modes, and advertise it as a competitive feature nobody else offers. Call competitors' "100/120hz" modes "fake" in your adds, and promote yours as the only REAL "100/120hz"

    * Give us an "instant on" option. Making us wait 5+ seconds for picture & sound after pressing the power button is BULLSHIT. To make HDCP-handshaking happy, keep the link "hot" even when the display is "off" (ie, turn off the LED backlight & LCD itself, but keep the interface powered up & making the HDMI source THINK the TV is "on").

    In other words, the display has four power states:

    1. HDMI on, Display lit up & active

    2. HDMI on, display dark (but HDMI source doesn't know that)

    3. HDMI off, display dark. What most LCD TVs now call "off"

    4. No power. Physically switched off or unplugged.

    I'll pay for the extra quarter-watt of power, dammit. Just don't make me stare at a blank/blue screen for 5 seconds due to HDCP handshaking just to make the eco-freaks happy.