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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Someone a while back on a thread not dissimilar from this one suggested looking into commercial display screens. A kind of BYO solution to the smart TV problems.

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (11 children)

The nice thing about Samsungs is that basically all their remotes work with all their TVs, so I just found one without the smart button so I can't tell that mine is smart, and I obviously never connected it to internet. I think it's a lot cheaper than trying to get a commercial dumb TV too.

[–] wispydust@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm curious about the need for non-smart TVs... Are you using it exclusively with a game console or is there some sort of other device you use with it?

[–] MaXsteri@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A media center for watching TV (currently an Nvidia Shield with Kodi) and various games consoles are literally all I've used a TV for in the past 20 years.

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I can’t believe people are out here raw dogging their TV’s operating system. To me it’s as strange as buying just a monitor for your desktop PC and wondering why your $80 computer injects ads everywhere and sells every scrap of data you give it. I haven’t owned a full sized TV in over a decade, and before that my dad always used an Apple TV and before that a dish network DVR so I always assumed it was the norm to buy some external input device, because I literally have not lived any other way.

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