• krousenick@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly I’d just be happy to have a TV without builtin “smarts”. Let me use my own set to box! I feel like Im collecting TVs from the late 2000s

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      1 year ago

      Just disable the networking and put the TV in game mode, which disables the smart stuff to give more processing power to the TV.

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      1 year ago

      I went out of my way to get a “stupid” TV last time I had to get a new one because I didn’t want the smart stuff. Probably wouldn’t be possible now.

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        It’s not. I just don’t connect the wi-fi. TVs usually enter a default state of “just go to the last selected input” which works fine for me.

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        Places like casinos are able to get the dumb TVs. Try to get a hold of one of them somehow. They use them to display their advertising.

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      I love that the OS for my LG TV pretty much stays out of my way while I run everything through the Roku. The only time I see anything from the TV OS is the occasional small pop up letting me know it completed an update.