Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost

• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  But you don’t need a dumb TV.

  The smart part isn’t what makes those TVs bad. It is the internet connection that sends you ads, scrapes your data, causes lags and reboots because of updates, and makes your network less secure.

  Just connect an other device over HDMI like you would a dumb TV, and never connect it to the internet like you would a dumb TV.

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  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Except some models won’t let you do anything until you “activate” your smart TV, which requires an internet connection.

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  • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wrong

    The “smart part” absolutely makes those TVs bad. The meme even addresses this with the line about hardware being ripped wholesale from an old smart phone. Smart TV hardware barely functions when it’s brand new. Fuck everything about smart TVs.

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  • Kanda@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What if I just want the screen to turn on, displaying the last output I used? No, we gotta boot Android and then select the output through a menu for no reason

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      My TV boots to the last input selected. It’s a smart tv.

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      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Mine too, just takes a while to go through all the google, android, TLC screens before it gets there.

        Good thing that is only at the start.

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  • Alice@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s true. I was even more tech illiterate back then than I am now and couldn’t figure out how to switch inputs without going through the menu, which I couldn’t get to without connecting to the internet and going through the whole setup process.

    No going back now since I mostly cast from my phone these days since it’s the laziest way for me to watch without ads.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah… I got a Sony OLED as my most recent TV and the picture is incredible. Best I’ve ever seen.

  Even if I could find “dumb” TVs, I doubt they reach that level of quality.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  From my experience, it’s best to just buy a used dumb screen. Check if it’s working properly and doesn’t have any screen problems and you’re golden.

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  • Alice@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s what I did, hence only finding standard def. :( I assumed that was the only option, actually. If someone is even making new ones, I’d probably have better luck there.

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