Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet?
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 8 months ago
Its silly how many people are proposing dumb TVs as something better ore something you need to hold on to at all costs. Get a TV with a screen that suits you and connect some playback device via HDMI or such. Kodi, custom entertainment PC, android TV, whatever. The tips about pihole are not good either. Its not a firewall with DPI, just a dns blocker. If the TV uses hardcoded IP then you are shit out of luck. And it bet they do.
I wish dumb TVs were more available. I have a Samsung and I mainly use their interface to swap HDMI inputs - though the built in Spotify app has a better screensaver.
My main issue is that good screens in large formats, like the latest OLEDs aren’t really available in dumb TVs.
Aren’t smart TVs basically dumb TVs when they’re offline?
As soon as I switch inputs they are at least for me.
They might nag you about connecting.
Not really on the two smart ones in owned. Lg and Samsung.
Shit out of luck…. unless you run your own router and know how outbound firewall rules work. Granted the general public does not do either of those, but this is Lemmy.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
It’s not that a dumb tv offers better viewing quality, it’s that it needs to start an OS and an interface to navigate, injecting ads and whatnot, while a dumb tv will start in an instant and only outputs what is connected to its physical inputs.
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My LG TV (not connected to the internet) lets you disable all startup icons and sounds. It goes from off to on in about 2 seconds.