Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems
sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoif you could purchase a basic/dump TV with no features at all and buy raspberry pi separately, you could install Android on raspberry pi and connect the two together
Pechente@feddit.org 1 day ago
Not sure if it changed in the last year or so since I bought my tv but isn’t the issue that there are essentially no dumb tvs? The closest I could find were big monitors intended to be commercial public displays but they came with their own set of issues. In the end I bought a smart tv and I it’s quite bad.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
it’s not that complicated, just get a smart TV and don’t connect it to your network. quite easy to never use any of the built in apps if you only use your own inputs sources.
Pechente@feddit.org 13 hours ago
That’s exactly what I do but that doesn’t magically shield me from the bad software running on these machines. The OS is still unstable, tries to apply a bunch of filters that need to be disabled, has extreme lag unless gaming mode is being used and has stupid UI decisions like putting the audio level exactly where the subtitles usually are so that changing audio will obfuscate them. Once every 24h I‘m also getting a warning that the tv is not connected to the internet, despite network connectivity being explicitly disabled.
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That’s what my search keeps coming up with - commercial display models. I don’t know enough about them to make a good decision, though. I guess I’ll keep digging.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Those displays are made to be very bright and usually have a lot of backlight bleed.
sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
searching “non-smart tv” on amazon yield many results as long as you don’t require highend brand like samsung or LG
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I’m trying to avoid Amazon but I’ll look there to see what I can learn.