luckily this is just a 32; i had a 70 from the same brand with the same INSANELY FUCKING STUPID STAND DESIGN that i had to find something for…literally at the most extreme edges of the thing, what the fuck is this? this is so fucking stupid, it cannot be meaningfully cheaper than a proper design and it looks fucking dumb as hell and surely this has pissed off 90% of people that wanted a TV and want to put it on a little stand like a normal fucking person right??
That leg design is incredibly ugly as well.
Have you tried moving it an inch to the left?
😅 I kid.
You can buy a vesa stand mount though fairly cheap.
Sony currently do a cool thing with their stands where you can place them in 3 or so different position along the tv if you wanted. Finally someone thinking!
Mount it on the wall jackass.
I agree. The tipping threat on a TV is almost exclusively front to back, not side to side. Putting the support legs closer to the middle, but still spaced a third of the width of the TV should be totally adequate. I suspect it’s an aesthetics thing now.
I suspect it’s a soundbar compatibility thing
Good point!
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Sadly nowadays the stands that come in a box should just be used temporarily tool you get a more permanent solution. You can get done really good mounts that use the VESA mounts at the back.
I would never trust the standard stands, they have way too much wobble to them.
Because you bought a really cheap TV and the little feet on the sides are cheaper than a center stand that needs to be much heavier and sturdier.
Yeah that’s one of those companies that buy bulk cheap TVs to slap their logo on and make out they’re a tech company… Looking at you Kogan.
TCL owns it’s own panel manufacturing company.
The latter half of your comment are probably what use TCL panels, but in this case, this is straight from the source.
Hmm if that’s the case I might try the TCL codes on my Universal remote, can’t get it to work with my Kogan tv.
If the TV is VESA compatible, there are tons of third-party stand options.
No one has seemed to mention the rise of sound bars. Center stands block sound bars and so so many people are using them now.
That’s because TV’s no longer come with decent audio because they are made as thin as possible for whatever reason.
No surprise, a wide screen tv from the late 90s was big enough to house 2 gaint speakers and a subwoofer.
Those sony Trinitrons sounded so damn good, you could hook up two rca’s to the AV jack and use the tv as an reasonably good speaker
And took up half your room, and weighed 800 lbs, no thanks.
My dad’s place still has a gigantic plasma TV from 2000 that takes up maybe 1/3rd of the room it’s in. Great picture, great sound. Completely impractical.
Bought a new OLED from LG last year. Main body is 3-4 inches thick and the sound is bloody incredible. There are still some gems out there
Yeah they rely on the sound bouncing back from the wall which is why some TVs have the speakers on the back
Flat Panel TV were always meant to use with a sound system. It is only meant to display video. The belief has always been they are for higher end viewing. And it’s impossible to get good sound out of a audio in a chassis that thin, that is why sound bars exist. Ask anyone who knows home theaters and they will tell you more than 50% of the experience is the audio. You’re better off spending money on a good audio system and even going with a smaller screen if dealing with budget constraints for the best experience. They make them as thin as possible because people want that.
Yeah the speakers they come with are totally just for like pretend. They aren’t real or anything
There are many thoughtless, idiotic design choices today, for example curved edge phone screens, shitty ultrasonic/photo fingerprint sensors in the scren, no jack connector, microsim, etc. I call it engineer idiotism.
And that doesn’t apply here. The feet are out wide for stability, keep weight down, cost, and leave room for a sound bar.
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Your ears don’t understand digital signals, you can generally run (unbalanced!) audio over tens of metres without degrading audio quality (because impedance /= resistance) as judged with actually good headphones, and no in-ears have anywhere close to good sound, anyway.
With good muffs the deciding factor (ignoring source material) will be the quality of the DAC, not where it’s placed. And even the shittiest DACs nowadays are good enough to drive the best in-ears, simply due to in-ears having, physically, no choice but being shoddy.
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We already do have the same connector for all headphones. Well there’s also 6.35mm jacks but they’re practically the same connector in more shear resistant (it is terribly easy to shear off straight 3.5mm jacks by stumbling over the headphone cord. I recommend a straight plug to straight socket section as predetermined breaking point, and an angled connector on the appliance side).
Headphones neither receive digital signals nor DC power, those are the areas USB-C is actually for… and even within that category we should be careful: Imagine all monitors being USB-C, people nowadays can’t even manage to plug their monitor into the GPU instead of motherboard if every connector is USB-C, and they of course all won’t have the same feature set, they’ll plug it into the mouse our audio port.
What I definitely welcome is the death of the barrel jack, while the form factor is fine they never managed to standardise voltages and polarities. My cheap 10 buck kitchen scale I bought a week ago has a USB-C connector to charge the LIR2450 inside, that’s perfect: No fast charging no nothing it just takes straight 5V meaning it will happily charge off a PC from the 1990s, cheap to implement for the manufacturer and they don’t need to supply a wall plug.
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There is a universal headphone connector.
What’s next up for you universal connector? Power plugs? Garden hoses? Also as said everything having the same shape isn’t exactly always an advantage. How about a portable DAC? Do you always want me to triple-check which is the analogue output and which is the charge/data port?
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Going all-digital is better for sound quality.
This doesn’t make any sense. All sound signals must convert to analogue at some point. You simply cannot vibrate the air creating sound waves with a digital signal. Technically I suppose you could, but all you music would just sound like unintelligible beeping, and you’d still need some kind of amplifier to hear it anyway.
All we’ve done is move the DAC from the phone into the earbuds, or maybe a dongle. The latter may result in better audio if you have a high quality dongle, but the DAC in a pair of wireless earbuds will almost always sound worse simply due to size and power constraints.
oh sure start giving them ideas about usb-c headphone adapters
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That and the endless pressure to innovate means they end up suggesting stupid shit no one wants and have the sales folks work that out
Hahahaha what do you mean? This has to be satire. Nobody is that dense right? If it doesn’t fit, don’t buy it lmao.
Is it that hard to read the post? OP is right, almost every TV on the market has the same cheap, shitty plastic feet, and they’re spaced as far apart as possible so you’re unnecessarily size-limited when trying to buy something like a bedroom TV to sit on top of bookshelves or a tallboy.
I’d like something more than 32" for my bedroom too, but I can find one new 40-42" TV on the market with a central stand now, and it is some obscenely expensive 4K OLED thing from Sony. I am keeping an eye out for older, pre-owned TVs as a result, but am yet to find any good deals.
Central stands are just not that safe on bigger screens. Sadly, the easy way is to place feet on each side of the screen. One could always go for a wall mount.
If you don’t like a product, don’t buy it and if you know that every product has this design, then it’s hardly a surprise when you unbox it at home.
This posts seems like OP didn’t check if the TV would fit before buying and now they’re angry at themselves.
Central stands made as shittily as the ones they put in the box, sure. A proper good central stand that uses the VESA mounts of a TV is a million times safer in my opinion
Almost like you get what you pay for. The manufacturer goes for the cheapest stand to make the entire TV cheaper.
If it had a good central stand it might be more expensive and then OP would buying a different cheaper TV with shitty stands.
They are that far apart to accommodate soundbars
I don’t know a single damn person buying a TCL who has sound bar money
Your orange cat is still trying to process your anger.
I imagine him muttering to himself “tsk tsk tsk …I knew you should have measured it like I told you…tsk tsk tsk”
How do you not do research on the dimensions of anything before buying something big like a TV?
Mate I’ll have done a 3D reconstruction of the room accurate to the mm to test everything out. I’m only slightly exaggerating, I literally did exactly that when planning my new office/studio, had the room in 3D long before we got the house, built everything myself, custom desk, acoustic treatment, etc.
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Do you buy a new TV, like, every other week?
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It just takes a single measurement to avoid this… Measure/estimate width of the cabinet, look at the TV width, look at pictures of the TV. Then, if the TV is wider than the platform and has wide legs, don’t buy something that probably won’t fit.
I agree with the others, OP rushed to buy this on black friday without enough thought and now regrets that decision.
It used to take zero measurements to avoid this. That’s OP’s point.
Apparently, if it warrants making a post about it
I measure the shit out of everything before I even go out to buy a TV. Having this feet design simply would have meant that either I wouldn’t have bought this televisi, or I already intend to replace the table.
