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The left part of the screen of my parent's Samsung TV have seriously blackened recently, so they are thinking of buying a new TV. We probably bought this like 6 years ago maybe, but I absolutely do NOT want to buy a Samsung again (6 years is just planned obsolescence reliability + their OS didn't let me remove the bloatware in any way or shape of form)

Which brand has been the most reliable for you, and also have you been able to remove the bloatware from your TV via dev mode or with a different method?

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[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No idea, but my 15 year old Sony seems to be hanging on just fine.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe the old ones but the current ones have absolute dog shit software. Random crashes, audio dropping out, notifications that the network connection isn’t working even if you deliberately turned it off, the audio level is in the bottom center of the screen, covering up subtitles and a bunch more annoyances. I don’t know who shipped this and thought it was good enough.

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hmm what is your Sony TV model? Most people seems to recommend Sony's, but I wouldn't be surprised that the recent models are shittier than they used to be

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

It’s a Sony BRAVIA XR-55A95L. I‘ve read multiple reports that there issues with Sony‘s current software on their TVs and people even went as far as to recommend other TVs with the same panel instead.