Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL

• mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You mean the stuff every TV has these days? I also never hook mine to the internet so not really a problem. I haven’t seen a single ad in the year I’ve had mine

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What disgusting cope. Don’t you have any self-respect?

    Just because you can work around the abuse doesn’t mean they aren’t abusing you.

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    • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Dude, touch grass and calm down. You’re putting a lot of words in my mouth and completely missing the point which is why you’re getting down voted.

      I’ve pushed back on “smart” TVs so much. My point was if your issue with TCL is the ads you should rightfully have issues with every TV. They’re all shoving ads, they’re all analysing watched content. This isn’t a TCL specific thing at all was my only point.

      Also disconnecting from internet is a direct way of fighting back against that abuse. You’re not giving them those analytics or ad space. Sure you can choose to not buy any TV but I clearly keep overestimating people’s intelligence and didn’t think I needed to spell out every possible option in a quick comment.

      Fuck I hate the braindead keyboard warriors the internet has enabled.

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  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You can still get dumb tvs.

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    • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If you have a link or can tell me what store to walk in and get a dumb TV with even half the quality of my current TV I will take it. I could only find business displays which were all stuck at 60hz or had a color spectrum and contrast so bad my ten year old laptop IPS screen beat them.

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      • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well I suspect the quality is not going to be up to your standard, but this is the one I have in my living room, and I think it’s perfectly fine. But if you just can’t live without 120hz or whatever, then I guess you’re stuck.

        Walmart used to have a variety of these, now they’re down to one. All my TVs are either 10+ years old or Sceptre and therefore are all dumb. But I don’t have a purist bone in my body when it comes to AV stuff.

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      • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        a.co/d/9eTZGyw

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    • macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes they are hard to find. They are few and far between and cost over twice the price.

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