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Someone finally did it: a high-end TV with a DisplayPort connection actually is coming this year, including 4K 180Hz support (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 1 point 7 months ago* (10 children)

Just don't connect it to the internet. Smart TV is now dumb TV. It really is that simple.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Now it is a dumb tv with a 30 second boot up time and a clunky menu for changing inputs.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    Not on my experience. I simply set my LG OLED to HDMI 1 and leave it there. I don't own a Blu Ray player nor any game consoles, so one input for my PC is all I need. TV boots up like a monitor and immediately displays the desktop. I never see the smart crap ever.

    If you have to for your particular model, you can always get a service remote and put the TV into Hotel Mode, then from that menu, disable the smart features completely, and program the TV to default to your input of choice every time you boot it up. Every TV in existence has Hotel Mode, and thus is capable of doing this.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    It really is that simple.

    If the TV allows you to use it without connecting to the internet.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

    There is no such thing as a TV that blocks you from using it without an internet connection. I promise you there is an option to continue without connecting, unless you specifically purchased an ad-supported display that requires you to go online so it can serve you ads (and so far every TV that tried to pull that crap has failed to sell).

    You're making up problems in your head again. Stop doing that.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    Dunno why you'd bother gaslighting someone over this, but try harder.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Dude you're the one gaslighting. I was raised by people like you; I'm not falling for it.

    Provide me just one example of such a TV, and I'll shut up. But I already know you can't.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Last LG i set up wouldn't let me change some configs without an account... which obviously requires internet. From that to requiring internet to operate is not a long stretch and no, i won't bother searching specific models just to win an internet argument with a troll.

    Bye

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You're still paying for the components, so an out-of-box dumb TV would be cheaper (we saw this when smart TV's first launched, they were ~$30-40 more then the dumb versions). You still are at the mercy of whatever board/OS gets installed. And Microsoft is constantly trying to force users to make an online account to use the PC, it's only a matter of time before TV makers require WIFI to do initial setup. Plus there's ways to still get online, like if they partner with Xfinity who use customer routers (the ones that get rented) for others to use... stuff like that would eb all to easy to do. Or heck, partner with Amazon. They deliver everywhere, so the trucks are driving around, there's ways they could auto join you to a network.

    The "just don't" doesn't send a message other than "we need to try harder because we need to steal that data". Stop buying TVs is the only message that might work.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    You’re still paying for the components, so an out-of-box dumb TV would be cheaper

    Based on the components alone, yes, but this is capitalism.
    The reason smart tvs are cheaper than that is because of ad revenue.

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