They already exist. You just have to look for “signage displays” or “commercial TV’s”, they come with all the smart crap stripped out.
Yeah. Part of me wonders how much of a premium that making a TV dumb would be and if there is a large enough market that would buy into it.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
LukewarmToddy@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Iiyama screens are some of the best commercial screens. Unfortunately commercial screens usually lack the plug in and play features on domestic tellys, which can be a right faff
wewbull@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Plug and play features like…
Plug an HDMI cable in and watch?
Prox@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’d imagine they mean features like HDMI CEC, input-based picture mode memory/adjustment, support for high-quality audio (like Atmos), etc.
LukewarmToddy@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Not quite; using USB storage, which people do, remembering last input, little things like that which you take for granted on a consumer telly but isn’t easy to use on these commercial screens
fox2263@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sadly they don’t make OLED signage I don’t think.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Yeah, I haven’t seen any of that either, probably because OLED burn in and limited brightness lifespan would make them basically unserviceable as static or even slideshow displays.
thrawn@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Why not purchase one subsidized by ads then just not connect it to the internet? Seems like a win-win
wewbull@feddit.uk 4 months ago
…because there’s no guarantee it will work without internet.
thrawn@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Can you provide an example of one that only works online? I have never heard of that.
wewbull@feddit.uk 4 months ago
I’m not sure we’re there yet, but we’re certainly in the “nag banners on a frequent basis” realm on TVs.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 months ago
we need an OpenWRT but for TVs