![]() The problem is simple, one needs a broad enough table or platform to accommodate the stands at either end. But it poses a problem for those who choose to place their TV on a desk. ![]() If you plan to wall-mount the TV, this is inconsequential. The Majority of manufacturers today opt for a pair of desktop stands that connect to the device near the left and right edges of the TV. It has been done before, and it needs to be done by everyone from here on. ![]() All you need is a common-sense design approach at the back of the TV. You cannot expect one to unmount the TV to simply connect an HDMI cable, can you? Something as simple as placing the ports six to eight inches from the edge can solve this problem. For 55-inch and larger screens, they are nearly a foot and a half to two feet away from the edge, making it near impossible to reach them. The problem grows manifold as the size of the TV increases. Once you wall mount a TV, it is very difficult to reach the ports if they are closer to the centre. In fact, some manufacturers have been doing the right thing by placing the ports closer to one edge of the TV rather than near the centre. Yes, this is more of wishful thinking, but it’s not entirely outside the realms of possibility. Either it needs to evolve to a point where one can do selective mirroring, especially when watching videos, without keeping the source device entirely occupied, or manufacturers need to look for a viable alternative to Chromecast. Nothing much has changed in Miracast as a technology in a while. Mirroring is not the same as casting and it is quite counterproductive. A viable Chromecast alternativeĪll Official Android TVs have Chromecast built in, and let you cast content from compatible apps onto the TV. (Also read: Mi TV 4A, Vu Ultra android, Onida Kaizen XT: Best smart TV deals under Rs 25,000 (Jan 2020)) 5. Thankfully, almost every TV released in the past couple of quarters, except the ones from Xiaomi, has incorporated an instant resume from standby feature. I know it’s a different OS, but still, 40 seconds is too slow. The Philips Smart TV based on Saphi OS that I reviewedrecently would boot in about five seconds. This really needs to come down to well under 30 seconds. Boot times for most Official Android TVs still hover around the 40-seconds mark. A revamp is overdue, and I hope it happens soon. This is the case with the Prime Video app on several other popular TV platforms too. The app is sluggish, buggy at times, and a shadow of its avatar on Fire TV OS. It is sort of hard coded on those TVs as it still isn’t available on the Google Play Store for TVs, and hence cannot be updated from time to time either. The Prime Video app made its way on to Official Android TVs in the second half of last year. I’m looking forward to a bunch of quality Fire TV OS based 4K TVs later this year, and with good sound too, I hope. Hopefully, some good TV manufacturers will soon start thinking along those lines too. Since these brands are looking to sell their TVs in India, the knowledge of what Indian consumers prefer to watch should be put to good use and not put on the back-burner.Īmazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K is one of the finest media streaming devices in India, and a combination of that with a good quality display would be a recipe for success, or so we think. ![]() And this has been an issue for a long time. Some of these TVs can play content at a higher resolution in apps like YouTube or Netflix, but most of them lack support for popular Indian services like Hotstar, Sony Liv, etc. The other prominent issue ailing Smart TVs is the lack of a decent app ecosystem, especially on Linux-based TV OSes. AOSP is serviceable at best on 32-inch or smaller TVs with 768p resolutions or lower, but the experience is really bad on larger screens. In the majority of cases, the video resolution is capped at 480p or 720p, even for services like Netflix and Prime Video, thus not letting you get the best out of your high-resolution TVs. In simple terms, AOSP is nothing more than a basic phone platform repurposed for TV. ![]() To be brutally honest, AOSP (Android Open Source Project) based platforms have no place on Full HD and 4K TVs in 2020. Some may be very basic, but they matter, and need to be there. Here are seven things on my wishlist that I hope to see become common in Smart TVs by the end of this year. But, there are some areas where progress has been scant or non-existent, and I hope that gets addressed this year. Netflix and Prime Video support, which was missing in the first half of 2019, is also a non-issue now in most cases. I’ve seen the picture and sound on budget TVs get better, and official Android OS get adopted by most of the popular brands. I’ve seen Smart TVs evolve at a fair pace over the past 12 months. ![]()
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