Remember when TVs were just displays and nothing more?
Ahh the good ol days
That’s all my new one is. Just don’t connect to internet.
You’re thinking of monitors
Monitors are an excellent alternative. I use one with a Fire TV stick in my garage gym (still a data mining nightmare though). Still looking for an alternative to the Amazon TV stick. I’m making a lounge media/emulation PC and really want to be able to use Plasma bigscreen and hope it works well.
If you never give a tv the internet, it stays a dumb tv
If you never give a tv the internet, it stays a dumb tv, so far.
I think it’s only a matter of time before TV manufacturers start disabling the TVs if they can’t connect periodically. Or they’ll start shipping them with SIM cards.
Or doing what auto MFG’s do, add low bandwidth cellular service so they can directly get telemetry if you don’t give it internet. I don’t know if the economics of it scale with the TV price points, but they’d just bake that into the price and people would be unwittingly buing their own surveillance/ad machines anyways (like new phones, computers, etc.).
Ooo, free Internet on a hacked TV?
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I bought my tv at a store last year. Ill throw it through their fucking window if this shit happens. Mine has never been connected to the internet and is in demo mode.
My Samsung TV isn’t connected, so it’s dumb but also passive aggressive. The input banner on the screen says “crime zone” when the internal source is selected.
