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Some of these TVs take so long to register a button press you have to wonder if they aren't using a 6502 inside to power the thing.

Amusingly enough, my completely dumb pair of computer monitors (also made by Samsung, but before they started making things "smart") has a 6502-based SoC driving the OSD, and there is no perceptible lag at all.

These "smart" TVs seem to be based on ARM SoCs running at few hundred MHz to 1GHz+ and probably have more processing power than a high-end desktop PC in the mid 2000s.

I think it's all because of the software - tons of bloat.




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