Hisense QD6 FireTV as 4K Monitor
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Bought a 43" Hisense QD6 QLED TV from Costco around Christmas to use as a computer monitor. I work from home for the most part of the last few years since the COVID-19 pandemic. My work involves mostly running commands remotely in terminals, writing code using VS Code, reading / writing documents, and web browsing. I am used to a lot of browser tabs and windows, so having a large monitor makes those tasks easier.
Having used this TV as an external monitor on my laptop for a few weeks now, I like the crispy display of text, images, etc., but there are a few quirks (OK, problems) that really bother me.
First, this TV is really built as a TV, that doesn't seem to want to work as a monitor: It cuts off the HDMI interface to the PC whenever something happens, like when the PC goes into screen saver mode, or if you press the Home button on the TV remote, not to mention when the PC is powered off then comes back, or reboot.
When that happens, all windows open on this secondary monitor go over to the laptop screen. I would have to rearrange things. Then I have to do it again when I walk away to make some coffee, then again after lunch.
Besides that, the TV monitor somehow turns off the media control media control buttons on the USB keyboard made by Dell, which I use on the laptop while sitting at the desk and it have worked with other external HDMI monitors before.
Another issue is that the PC's Windows 10 sound system seems to get confused when the TV is used as an external monitor. System sound would be directed to the TV sometimes even though it has been on the internal sound system previously.
I wonder if these quirks have more to do with the fact that this TV is branded as a FireTV, which is an Amazon technology. So I am not sure if these quirks reflect more on Amazon's arrogance or bad implementation by the TV manufacturer.
I don't know my writing down these quirks would do anything. If possible, I would like to get this to people at Hisense, so maybe...just maybe we can get a firmware update or something so it can be more useful.
