I feel like TV app’s like Netflix (maybe the exception) / HBO / Hulu / AppleTV+ / et. al. are incredibly slow and pretty poorly designed. When I hit a button a few times on the remote to scroll it will lag, then jump suddenly across a few icons. Computer based apps don’t do this. What gives?
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Well it’s just like buying any other electronic.
I have an LG CX and it has never slowed down or shown age.
I have a Samsung low-end 4k as well and it is super slow. It just can’t keep up with modern software feature expansion.
Most of your cheaper or mid-range TVs will have a singular processing unit with a tiny bit of RAM.
This processing unit will be in-charge of apps, upscaling, background processing, transcoding, etc.
This is a lot of work for a little ARM processor. It usually takes a beefcake to muscle out good transcoding or upscaling. The app developers try to work within limits of assumed RAM use but they can only sacrifice but so much for low-end or older models.
Once you run out of RAM, usually the system will start using its slow internal storage as a mem swap which is about as effective in this case as Windows Ready Boost.
This all results in a slow TV.
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