Just don’t connect the TV to wifi?
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NutWrench@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The problem is, you can never trust companies whose products can update over the air. (like “smart TVs”). The company can promise all kinds of things they won’t do and then sneak something awful into a future update. I will spend a little more on “non-smart” TVs in the future.
PedanticPanda@lemmy.world 5 days ago
NutWrench@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The problem is, the TV won’t let you. The Visio TV won’t let you do anything with it at all until you set up your WiFi connection first. So you can’t even use it as a dumb monitor.
And if you disable WiFi later, the TV will nag you to turn it back on every time the TV starts up. I’m sure this design is intentional.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 4 days ago
Could you connect it to wifi, but then block the tv on your router from Internet access?
Rooster326@programming.dev 5 days ago
How exactly?
They don’t make no Wifi TVs. You can choose to not give it your Wifi Password.
And please don’t say digital signage. That costs 10x what a TV does and the picture is significantly worse.
NutWrench@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Here’s a 32" one on Amazon. Found it in just a few seconds.
a.co/d/aYmShxr
Tinks@lemmy.world 4 days ago
A 32" TV is not what most people are looking for. In fact I don’t know anyone with a main TV that small these days. The problem is that 40"+ dumb TVs are hard to find. I’m not saying they don’t exist, but very few manufacturers are making them, and the few that are have garbage screens in them.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Specs seem bad. Only 720p from the looka of it no mention of latency which makes it questionable for gamers. Better off getting a gaming monitor at that point over it.
I don’t think this is even worth buying and seems the type of junk TV that would be sold on black Friday as a deal.