Gotta hope that stays viable. But as we saw with Windows 11, if there’s a financial incentive to push you online to harvest information and force-update trash onto your screen, they will eventually find a way to strong arm you into doing that.
Large Format Displays like those made by NEC are my secret tip, they usually don’t have any “smart” garbage, they’re great for wall-mounting and you can even get them with an anti-reflective coating
It won’t break out of the blue, don’t use the features and if it works out of the box it will continue working without updates and worst case if something is problematic you plug it, update and unplug it.
TVs aren’t mechanical devices like a washer where they switched metal parts to plastic to save a couple of dollars here and there.
Heck, you can even just buy a PC monitor or a projector if you’re just against smart stuff!
First of all, you’re still paying for all those features you don’t need, that’s bad.
Second, these “smart” features almost always slow down the devices, so even simple tasks get sluggish.
Finally, electronics absolutely do break, and the more of it you’re having, the likelier it is for something to break. Memory and CPUs can overheat, capacitor can (and do) leak, especially in very thin TVs that’s a common problem, and solder joints can break.
You don’t pay for those features, you pay less than the device would sell for without them because it’s a trade-off, sell for less but profit off features, that’s why the cheaper models have more bloat.
If these features wouldn’t be implemented in the first place, they would be even cheaper.
In the last about 5 years there was no innovation whatsoever in the TV market. Yet, there’s more and more bloat, more “smart” shit nobody needs and higher prices.
All I want is a dumb devices brand.
So sick of smart devices that don’t need to be smart. The more unnecessary things something can do, the more it can break.
I wonder if we’ll ever get reliable, long lived products ever again or if planned obsolescence has won forever.
I gave up for a dumb TV, I just don’t hook mine up to the Internet.
Gotta hope that stays viable. But as we saw with Windows 11, if there’s a financial incentive to push you online to harvest information and force-update trash onto your screen, they will eventually find a way to strong arm you into doing that.
I’m doing the same right now, but the next TV I buy will be a commercial-grade Large Format Display
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Thanks, that’s great and useful advice.
It would be cool if all TVs were just dumb displays + a standardized dedicated spot for a module for whatever internals you want to put in it.
Maybe I should petition the EU for this lol. cuts down on e-waste.
Large Format Displays like those made by NEC are my secret tip, they usually don’t have any “smart” garbage, they’re great for wall-mounting and you can even get them with an anti-reflective coating
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Sceptre still makes dumb TVs.
Buy whatever TV and don’t plug it to the internet?
how can anyone so completely miss the point?
It won’t break out of the blue, don’t use the features and if it works out of the box it will continue working without updates and worst case if something is problematic you plug it, update and unplug it.
TVs aren’t mechanical devices like a washer where they switched metal parts to plastic to save a couple of dollars here and there.
Heck, you can even just buy a PC monitor or a projector if you’re just against smart stuff!
First of all, you’re still paying for all those features you don’t need, that’s bad.
Second, these “smart” features almost always slow down the devices, so even simple tasks get sluggish.
Finally, electronics absolutely do break, and the more of it you’re having, the likelier it is for something to break. Memory and CPUs can overheat, capacitor can (and do) leak, especially in very thin TVs that’s a common problem, and solder joints can break.
You don’t pay for those features, you pay less than the device would sell for without them because it’s a trade-off, sell for less but profit off features, that’s why the cheaper models have more bloat.
If these features wouldn’t be implemented in the first place, they would be even cheaper.
In the last about 5 years there was no innovation whatsoever in the TV market. Yet, there’s more and more bloat, more “smart” shit nobody needs and higher prices.
No innovation? TVs have better picture quality every year and you pretend nothing’s changed in the last 5 years? 🤔
Where? 4k has been around for longer, OLED, HDR too.