RSS BotHisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV
Remember when TVs were just displays and nothing more?
You’re thinking of monitors
cRazi_manMonitors are an excellent alternative. I use one with a Fire TV stick in my garage gym. Still looking for an alternative to the Amazon TV stick though. I’m making a lounge media/emulation PC and really want to be able to use Plasma bigscreen and hope it works well.
TwinTitansThat’s all my new one is. Just don’t connect to internet.
HotsauceHurricaneAhh the good ol days
If you never give a tv the internet, it stays a dumb tv
brandonIf 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.
Ooo, free Internet on a hacked TV?
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.
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.).
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.