This is something on tvs and even PC monitors/speakers that’s left me a little confused. Sliders/incremental input are okay for basic settings adjustments, but if you know exactly what you want your settings at…Why isn’t there a direct number input option on more devices?
E.g. brightness: slider/increment or input number within [range].
Volume: slider/increment or input number within [range].
I was helping adjust a somewhat newer tv awhile back and it brought this back to mind.
If they give the number then most people try to stick with increments of five so they’ve adopted a “stop when it looks good” ux methodology.
It’s also cheaper because you don’t have to normalize and internationalize the numbers.
normalize and internationalize the numbers
Is this still a thing? I thought we had settled on Arabic numerals a few hundred years ago…
I see Chinese characters on Chinese tvs for numerical values so idk. They may just say “volume” for all I know.
Most people use Arabic numerals, but some cultures switch comma and points and some cultures put decimal seperator at different spots.
You have a TV with volume controls in the thousands, or that lets you adjust by tenths or smaller?
I’d like to see this feature. People here are right that there’s probably not a huge need, but also seems like a relatively low effort feature to add.
People are used to sliders, I guess 🤷. Things used to be like that on old TVs, so it just never occured to anyone that people might like a direct value input instead of a slider.
To be honest, I wouldn’t know what to do with a direct input. Sliders are much more logical for fine tuning. It would be a nice option, but I would probably never use it.
All my TVs have a percentage next to the slider. You still have to slide the slider, rather than type in a number, if that’s what you’re referring to. I think the slider is just easier for a generic remote, unless the remote has a keypad or you’re using a phone app as a remote.
than type in a number, if that’s what you’re referring to.
It is, and also don’t most generic remotes still have keypads? 🤨
That’s the part that probably gets me the most here. You used to, and with certain services still, have to directly enter in a channel number to go to that channel…So the basic setup is all there, but…Pretty much exclusively used for channel navigation because ???
