# Pointless Topics
**URL:** https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82
**Category:** General
**Created:** [March 5, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82 "2019-03-05T13:24:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@BvS](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/BvS)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 9:50am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3360 "2020-07-17T09:50:34Z")
Definitely agree amid my parents tv is anything to go by.
I’ve got an Apple TV box so tbh not that fusssed about getting a tv with loads of built in aps as I’ll probably not really use them. But it’s pretty much impossible to get a non smart tv these days.
I’ll be watching a lot of films so picture quality is most important to me (I’ll be running sound through my hifi), as well as a nice minimal thin frame.
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### Author:  [@Will](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Will)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3361 "2020-07-17T09:52:15Z")
I had a low end Samsung before the Panasonic and it was dire, I ended up exchanging it and paying more. Don’t think it was necessarily representative though, just one dodgy model / batch.
All about picture quality for me, being able to turn off stuff like frame smoothing is important too.
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### Author:  [@BvS](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/BvS)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3362 "2020-07-17T09:55:44Z")
Oh dude yes, I can’t understand how anyone can enjoy watching films with motion smoothing turned on. It’s awful, makes everything look like an episode of Hollyoaks
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### Author:  [@Mark](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mark)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3363 "2020-07-17T11:50:44Z")
Re apps on TV these are really hard to manage (and it’s my job to do this).
Problem being on the older TVs the manufacturer decides not to support the apps any more (might be android, or proprietary OS) or refuses to talk to our developers or update the OS, which then in turn makes it look like the app is shit rather than the manufacturer. So we canned apps for LG/Samsung TVs earlier in the year and a lot of customers got pissed off but what the fuck do you do.
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### Author:  [@ciaran](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ciaran)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3364 "2020-07-17T12:28:24Z")
> [@BvS](#):
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> For the first time in my life I need to buy a tv but have absolutely no idea where to start.
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> Who makes good TVs? My criteria would be under £500, smart, 50ish inches. I watch a lot of films and do a bit of gaming. Anyone got a decent tv they’d recommend?
If you can splurge, get an (ultra0 short-throw projector. Depends on how much TV/films you watch during the day too. I’ve got an LG 34" 21x9 (3440x1440) monitor I use in place of a TV, with a Chromecast in the back for TV series/YT, or hooked up to a laptop for films on Plex or Netflix as they’re nearly all 21x9, so films always look dope. It works fine, but would definitely prefer an ultra short-throw projector!
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### Author:  [@Snurp](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Snurp)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 12:56pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3365 "2020-07-17T12:56:16Z")
> [@ciaran](#):
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> ultra short-throw projector
Oh god, was not aware of these. I must have one, I hate the way TVs dominate the living room and these look great
I also want to use it for work so I can write code all over my house. Matrix as fuck
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### Author:  [@Will](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Will)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3366 "2020-07-17T12:58:19Z")
Figured that might be the case. In’t technology great.
I guess folk tend to keep tellies a lot longer than stuff like phones, I’d hazard a guess that a 6 - 7 year old phone would be getting a bit ganky by now.
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### Author:  [@BvS](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/BvS)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3367 "2020-07-17T13:48:26Z")
Ah man didn’t think of these. Sidenote – Post-uni living in a shitty stoner house we had a full on projector set up in the living room which a housemate had goo for free. Apparently a local school were ‘throwing them away’ as they didn’t work but it was brand new and worked fine, so was definitely in hindsight stolen. It was so good to have an entire wall showing a film or to play xbox on.
Have you used one of these short throw things? Do you know how easy it would be to connect apple tv/xbox etc to it? I imagine you’d have to have HDMI cabled connecting it all
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### Author:  [@BvS](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/BvS)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3368 "2020-07-17T13:56:41Z")
[https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/projectors/projectors/lg-ph450ug-smart-hd-ready-mini-projector-10176947-pdt.html](https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/projectors/projectors/lg-ph450ug-smart-hd-ready-mini-projector-10176947-pdt.html)
[https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/projectors/projectors/lg-ph550g-hd-ready-mini-projector-10157617-pdt.html](https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/projectors/projectors/lg-ph550g-hd-ready-mini-projector-10157617-pdt.html)
These actually look great, gonna look into these. If i could work out how to play the sound through my speaker/amp set up (it might involve having to buy a bluetooth receiver for my amp though), this could actually be perfect.
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### Author:  [@Mush](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mush)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3369 "2020-07-17T14:16:53Z")
> [@BvS](#):
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> bluetooth receiver
Could be annoyingly out of sync, just a warning.
Once you notice a mouth moving before speach happens you can’t not notice it anymore.
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3370 "2020-07-17T14:24:48Z")
> [@42069666](#):
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> ‘Shit Skateboards’
That’s Martin Mentzoni - the Black Metal guy right?
He’s on Insta @martinmentzoni - he’s an illustrator these days.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVclaqWZYNo)
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### Author:  [@anon90826813](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anon90826813)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3372 "2020-07-18T09:47:31Z")
65? thought of glasses? jk
I found it a struggle to find a 40inch earlier on in the year as the space where the TV goes won’t fit anything bigger. We ended up with a 42 which just fit nicely as it had so much less edge than the last. LG, smart, white to match the room. As far as TV’s go it’s doing good.
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### Author:  [@anon90826813](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anon90826813)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2020, 10:34am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3374 "2020-07-18T10:34:53Z")
yeah depends on the room, a 40" would look like those portables everyone had as kids in your room.
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### Author:  [@KeithBeef](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/KeithBeef)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2020, 10:42am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3375 "2020-07-18T10:42:39Z")
Our old one had a massive black frame around it. Our newer one seems smaller even though the screen is bigger
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### Author:  [@nazoreth](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/nazoreth)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3376 "2020-07-18T13:09:19Z")
it’s crazy how true this is. they only seem like massive TVs for about 10 minutes and then it’s instantly normal and anything smaller seems teeny tiny
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3377 "2020-07-19T20:18:29Z")
I called a switch 180 5-0 a switch 180 5-0, and some guy agreed with that. Then this guy said it’s a 180 nosegrind . What’s the current rule?
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### Author:  [@voodoo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/voodoo)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3378 "2020-07-19T20:35:41Z")
Well it would be a switch fakie nose grind for a start, no? So they’re wrong on that, so I wouldn’t trust them on the rest, haha.
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3379 "2020-07-19T20:58:49Z")
I think it depends a lot on how the second part is done, but Fred Gall’s one in Photosynthesis, in the context of that line especially, is a switch 180 5-0. It’s a full 5-0. Nobody ever says ‘180 fakie nosegrind’, and rightly so.
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3381 "2020-07-19T21:06:35Z")
Yes, exactly. That’s what I’d called it, because that’s what it is.
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/pointless-topics/82/3383 "2020-07-19T21:24:52Z")
I was meant to be interviewing him but he’d only do it by email. I sent him two questions to start with and he said that one had already been answered, and he didn’t understand the other one. So that was that.
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