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.

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    1 year ago

    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.