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[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago

If that's real, then it's full refund or terrorism upon both the vendor and manufacturer.

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[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

I just bought this dumb tv. Couldn't be happier.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CJV6722?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

It's not a good tv, but it's the biggest one I could fit on my desk and it has absolutely no "smart" features.

[-] hardaysknight@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Just don’t connect smart TVs to the internet. That’s all you have to (not) do

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[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Anybody else have a weird level of fixation on the baseball player and the game character being in the same pose? Like, "maybe it's watching" kind of fixation?

[-] Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago

I'd like to be exactly this high, please

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago

First rule of smart TVs: if you really have to buy a smart TV, then never connect it to the internet!

[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 20 points 1 day ago

I've read at some other post that some smart TVs won't work at all if you don't connect it to the internet.

Read with caution, I haven't verified this.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Some of them use wifi for the remote too.

[-] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

Back to the store it goes then

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've also heard people say that they'll automatically connect to any open wifi networks. People make up a lot of stuff. Just don't tell your display device how to send any 1s or 0s to any server outside your home, and you'll be fine

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago

Oops, stepped on another $1200 landmine did you? Should have researched where you put your foot. Everyone knows this neighborhood is littered with landmines. No, there's nothing we can really do about it except hand out these exhaustive charts and navigation tools. Of course they need to constantly get re-updated and are themselves periodically hijacked by the pro-landmine industry to turn into a second-tier grift. But that just means you have to research who you research for your TV research.

Don't worry, you'll get it eventually. God gave us two legs for a reason.

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[-] mlg@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago

Looked at the CES reveals and aside from some minor improvements, its nothing but overloaded AI crap.

Even on TVs from 10 years ago, the first thing you had to do was turn off the stupid auto frame generation, smoothing, lighting, and other effects so you can actually enjoy your content in original detail and correct FPS.

[-] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day ago

It took me way too long to figure out what was going on with those settings. One of my relatives tv's was like this back in the day and at first I thought it was just their "HD" setup which made me completely write off getting anything HD because of the fake look like a soap opera. It wasn't till I was gifted a blue-ray player that I realized their tv just had horrible "enchancement" shit.

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[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 17 points 1 day ago

I can’t believe this is real. I’ve just bought a relatively cheap Samsung smart TV and it’s got nothing close to this. I would hardly even say it’s got adverts since it’s mostly just recommendations from my apps in the same way they all do now, I don’t think I’ve actually seen it try to sell me anything or get me to watch something that wasn’t free.

Who the fuck would buy a TV like this? If a company was going to introduce on-screen ads like this they’d start really small.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Who the fuck would buy a TV like this?

mindless consumers

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 21 hours ago

I didn't exactly do a lot of research into either of the two TVs I have and neither of them have ads like this.

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[-] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 86 points 2 days ago

Instead of buying a TV, look for a digital signage display. It's a TV, but with none of the "smart" crap on it.

Alternatively, just don't hook your device up to the internet.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 111 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is good advice, but I really wish we lived in a world where consumers could bond together and get laws passed that make this type of crap illegal so that buying TV's (or any type of appliance for that matter) didn't involve having to do research on weird non-consumer hardware just to have a nice experience.

EDIT: some morons in my replies keep on saying shit about "voting republican" and We Do In OtHeR CoUnTRiEs. I'm not american, I don't live in america, and I cannot remember the last time I set foot in america. Shut the fuck up, nobody asked you.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago

In other words, you wish we lived in a democracy instead of a plutocracy. 'Cause that's exactly how it's supposed to work. This thread is squarely about the FTC failing to do its goddamn job, because this should not be legal.

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[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago

My current TV has started to die. It's developing a purple spot that starts to be very distracting. I am not excited about researching a new model that doesn't pull out this kind a shit on me. I don't intend to ever connect it to the Internet. My current TV is nothing more than a big display for my NVIDIA shield TV and the next one will be the same.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

Sceptre makes a decent dumb tv.

I have one. I like it. 4k. Good enough for me.

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[-] eluvatar@programming.dev 25 points 1 day ago

This is where I would go to research a new tv https://www.rtings.com/

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[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 155 points 2 days ago

No way, tell me that isnt real. I remember hearing a patent about being able to deliver ads over hdmi but dont tell me it actually got implemented.

[-] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 163 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That ad is not over HDMI. Its a smart TV it inserts the ad on its own.

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[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 37 points 2 days ago

Verification can when?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 96 points 2 days ago

Not as bad as this, but when I moved to a new town I got a free big TV with my new ISP. I was going with that ISP anyways so a free 4k HDR TV on top was a nice bonus.

I wish I had gotten some other bonus. Viewing angle is atrocious and it is impossible to get rid of the input lag (no there isn't a gaming mode or similar) so no games with precise timing can be played.

So now we have a big living room TV that is too good to replace with something better but bad enough to be a little bit annoying.

[-] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 65 points 2 days ago

It really doesn't sound too good to replace? It sounds like you got free junk, and haven't actually bought a TV yet?

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