Where can you buy a non-smart TV ? I searched a lot, there is nowhere to buy such TV for private consumers. I could find some Hotel or Hospital TVs on eBay, they are all expensive and shit specs.

they have shown to jump on unsecured networks to phone home.

Source?

Who has shown it? Never seen anyinebprove that.

Where's your proof? I have never heard of this happening. Anyway, my Wi-Fi shows that there are no insecure networks around me.

Got any sources for this? This seems unlikely to be true at any scale

Welk then at least they're monitoring the neighbors, not you, and if you still have an unsecured hotspot in 2026 you're just asking for trouble

I mean, even if this was true and common, I dont really have an unsecured network anywhere close to my home and I imagine the same goes for most, like MOST other people as well. Thats while living in a city too, suburbs are probably even "better".

This is always the question, and there is never an answer.

Depends on what hardware you put it on, but probably not a “stick”. (Stick compute performance sucks anyway) https://libreelec.tv/

Source? Keep hearing people say this but no one ever provides a source. Think its just a tail at this point.

I'll tell you what my 2 "smart" tvs do as they are not connected to the internet, they act as a slow to turn on display of my desktop. 27" monitor press power button, less than 10 seconds looking at desktop, 40" samsung smart tv 15-20+ seconds to see the desktop without a stupid overlay, 65" samsung 4k smart tv 30-45 seconds till desktop is fully visible.

TL:DR NONE! Use as a monitor

Probably none, but it's getting harder to buy a non-smart TV

They tend to be cheaper or have more features. The income from data harvesting subsidizes the price.

Plus, in a lot of places you can't get dumb TVs without them being commercial displays, which have different priorities. Businesses don't really care about having 60hz, HDR, OLED, or low latency. Sometimes they don't even care about having 4K resolution.

None? The idea is not to get more features, it's to take it offline so it can't send data about you back home. Plug in another smart device into the TV and use that for streaming and such.

Most let you use the HDMI ports and antenna. Only some like Roku models block everything.

You should have just returned it. If it doesn't work out of the box, you don't need it.

Ya, I think it’s much better to be honest. I hate all the interpolation post processing crap too, but it just turn it all off. I found the old tv has a lot more light bleed from the back panel, and the newer tvs have blacker blacks and more contrast. I do think they are significant upgrades. But everything else is a major downgrade from the number of ports, the durability, the extra crap shoved down my throat, etc.

But if you use it just like a dumb monitor, it’s a great cheap tv.

You need to keep the frame rate matching on and motion smoothing off. On an LG you turn "Real Cinema" or "Cinema Screen" on and turn "TruMotion" off. On a Sony, you set "CineMotion" to High and "MotionFlow" on with both sliders set to minimum.

Isolate it and only allow the domains you need.

"*" match solves lazy domain matching and smart TV OEMs would be getting lawsuited if they failed to function without an internet connection when HDMI input is provided.