PRIMITV

Nice. That is an absurdly good name.

I think it needs just a bit of fool-proofing in a couple dimensions though:

(1) Ideally, the brand would also be able to speak to the segment of people who aren't going to get the wordplay.

(2) Also, there's the age-old pronunciation question. Is it just "Primitive"? Is it "Primi - Tee - Vee"?

It's quite close to being a great brand, though. I wonder if it just needs a skillfully-placed lowercase letter, or a couple dots, or something — maybe some sort of subtle variation could solve both problems.

Eh, this isn’t that crazy.

Like, most people probably don’t think about the fact that Uniqlo is short for “unique clothing” and yet it’s the #3 clothing retailer in the world.

A good example, for which people also don't care about the pronunciation, which, being a japanese brand, is supposed to be ユニクロ (yunikuro) [jɯnikɯɾo]

>Also, there's the age-old pronunciation question. Is it just "Primitive"? Is it "Primi - Tee - Vee"?

PrimiTV.

As in: DirecTV.

I think it’s perfect.

Hi lagrange77, I like this name too. Thank you for the suggestion. It's a bummer that primi.tv is already taken, but I'm fairly optimistic that I can find another easy-to-remember domain. Also, I'll do some digging beforehand to make sure that I'm not overstepping any existing trademarks or copyrights. If everything works out, I'd like to give you one of these displays if and when I get the prototype unit off the ground. Would that be okay?

Hi pupdogg, thank you very much for the generous offer!

Actually, I don't own a TV, and besides, it would be the coolest story to tell when people ask me where I got this device. So I would like to gladly take you up on the offer IF you actually end up using the name, everything worked out as you hoped and you're in serial production.

I really like the design btw, clean, uniform bezels and logo-less. That's what i always look after for my computer displays.

I'll drop you an email. Thanks again :)

Sounds good. Thank you again! For time being, I was able to purchase and reserve primitv.co and primitv.net

Good domains are hard to come by. I've poked at getting primi.tv and will report back.

That would be awesome! Thank you. For time being, I was able to purchase and reserve primitv.co and primitv.net

There's a precedent with antismartphone, so maybe you can reuse it for tv.

What do you think of primitive.tv? That's available via godaddy.

I would buy a good offline TV called "Primitv" in an instant

That's really nice. Though there's a _slight_ chance that Amazon's lawyers might come knocking due to the similarity of Prime (TV?).

Thanks for the positive feedback, guys! It was kind of a spontaneous inspiration.

Oh, that's just beautiful. You're hired.

damn bro u out here just dropping names like this for free??? that's a $10k idea

Neat endeavor. PrimiTV is pretty good.

I wanna play the name game.

Perhaps something along the lines of:

'NOAD' - noad.tv - I could see a regular googler search for 'no ad TV'

Or some other word for 'dumb', 'not smart'. Like dunce.tv. dolt. simpleton. dullard. etc.

Maybe a play on the TCP error ENETUNREACH? hehe.

Absolutely topnotch, you could have a bright future in branding.

PRIVATY? PRIVATV?

privyTv :)

voting for this. it's perfect

This is an awesome name. Love it!

According sources in the Wikipedia article about: idiot:

The word "idiot" comes from the Greek noun ἰδιώτης idiōtēs 'a private person, individual' (as opposed to the state), 'a private citizen' (as opposed to someone with a political office), 'a common man', 'a person lacking professional skill, layman', later 'unskilled', 'ignorant', derived from the adjective ἴδιος idios 'personal' (not public, not shared). In Latin, idiota was borrowed in the meaning 'uneducated', 'ignorant', 'common', and in Late Latin came to mean 'crude, illiterate, ignorant'. In French, it kept the meaning of 'illiterate', 'ignorant', and added the meaning 'stupid' in the 13th century. In English, it added the meaning 'mentally deficient' in the 14th century.

The IDIOT TV IDs the viewers with IOT technology :D

But who/what are you calling "idiot" and why? I would never think of calling that a plain HDTV set - it is still a technological marvel (and also would have all kinds of "smarts" built in anyway, just no apps or wifi).

Yeah.... I never purchased any books in the "For Dummies" series out of self respect.

Beginning Programming for Dummies isn’t too bad.

Calling the version with no smarts “idiot” seems pretty clever to me.

"Idiot box" is an immediately-accessible slang term for television for me, but maybe the usage is a little old.

because it's a synonym of dumbo

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