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I took the money I was going to spend on a TV and bought a 50 inch on facebook market place. Then, I got a last-gen gaming PC. Is it tedious? yes, but I can play video games and watch whatever I want without getting spied on so its a fucking win. *ads from changing the inputs and channels on your own device?" fuck you. I hope this tv lasts the next two decades.
I have never connected a TV to the Internet. I do have a smart TV but I just use it for my computer.
Whats the benefit of using a smart tv for your computer?
That’s one reason why I never connected mine to the internet.
Fucking Hell? Just allowed it to update an hourago and already had a bad feeling and now I am reading this?
Never buy Hisense, got it.
i wish people were less tolerating about this shit. most likely users of those tvs will grumble a little at first and then just accept and eventually disparage anyone for speaking against it.
people should get way more angry about this publicly.
just think about how things used to be 50 or 100 years ago. Having a huge scandal could actually end someones career or put down a company. Now there is nothing shitty people and companies can't do because everyone is so apathetic they wouldnt care if they themselves are the victim.
Most people just dont care or notice. They go to work get money and then go to walmart snd buy whatever is cheapest. Theyre used to ads everywhere so they buy the ad infected tv and dont even notice anything wrong, ads are just a mundane fact of life.
I suspect part of the lack of outrage is the fact that you don't have to change your inputs much these days. If you only stream content from a gaming console with apps then you're never changing the channel or the inputs. and if you ARE changing the channel, they could easily seem like just regular TV ads.
I don't think the average 20 something or 30 something is channel surfing like they used to in the old days either way. If you're changing a channel you likely know what you want to watch and what channel it's on. So, each change of the channel is one or two ads every hour or so. because even with cable you have the cable based TV guide interface.
and when you do call it out, other consumers make fun of you and tell you you're being annoying and to get with the times
see: LED headlights
More like Nonsense TVs
I'd like to let people know that Sceptre still makes dumb tvs and they're pretty good.
There's literally no reason to buy a smart TV so long as TV's have multiple HDMI inputs.
I use the 4k ONN box which can play files off the high seas... i mean USB.
I'm feeling a lot less crazy having my strict rule on AV equipment:
It should work out the box without connecting to the internet, and it shouldn't be connected without a damned good reason.
To the point that I insisted on setting up the PS5 and playing a game on it before connecting, just to be sure.
That's my only gripe with my ONN box... the remote gets updates. seems sus. But I don't give it microphone permissions so hopefully that's sufficient.
One hint that it's still listening is if it runs through batteries too fast. If it lasts at least a year, you should be okay. I had to get a Chinese knock-off remote without a microphone for my last TV to stop it.
Good to know. Lasted a year on some crappy amazon batteries so I think it's turned off.
How hard is it for companies to just make a good screen screen with the necessary ports any nothing else.
We are all losing our minds.
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