oh yeah that TV is going back to the store.

And then the next one does it…and the next one, and the next one…

Then you discover the only way to be a dumb TV is by buying through a commercial vendor and costs 10x as much and has none of the fancy features because theyre not meant to be used in home theaters but as digital displays in boardrooms or as fleet tvs for hotel rooms that have their own AV services.

I love the future!

Don’t discourage people. There are lots of dumb TVs out there that are competitively priced, you just have to look. Scepter has a whole line of displays with no built in bloat/telemetry that are priced the same as every other TV on the market.