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It's the TV. No one should expect TV speakers to be worth anything. Even getting one of the cheapest sound bars or even computer speakers will make a noticable difference
Nobody should expect a product to function reasonably out of the box. That would be insane, right?
It does function reasonably. It plays audio. That is all it needs to do. If you want high quality sound, but a device that specializes in sound.
My ass plays sound too, but nobody want to pay to hear it.
They may as well just sell them without speakers at all. I don't need specifixally high quality sound, just not-garbage sound.
Are you willing to pay through the nose?
Getting decent audio out of a TV with basically no bezel is a hard engineering problem. Read: expensive.
There are some crazy schemes that have been tried, like embedding a piezioelectric layer on top of the display, but the reality is no one wants to pay a grand or two for that when they could just plug in a soundbar. What TV makers should really do is bundle soundbars with the TV in a combo pack, which I think they already (sometimes) do.
That's part of the problem, isn't it? They're trying to make TVs into an art piece instead of a functional appliance.
We were ok with fatass CRT sets when that's all that was available. When LCD became standard, most people were happy about that. Now that bezel-less TVs are a thing, apparently we can no longer go back to anything but a 65" iPad.
This is fine with OLEDs and future(?) emissive displays TBH. They don't need a thick bezel for much of anything, and thinning them out saves on materials/shipping weight up to a point.
Edge-lit LCDs were kind of an insane fad, but... outside low-end PC monitors, that's mostly over.
Sounds like you need a simple soundbar then