that is what i’ve done. you can even disconnect one from the internet and plug in a box any time
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padge@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I was wondering the same thing. Is anyrhing stopping me from buying a “smart” TV and just never putting it online? My current one hasn’t been connected in years but I bought that thing in 2018, maybe things have changed
jdeath@lemm.ee 3 months ago
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Still takes like 10 sec to turn on instead of a “dumb TV” where you pressed power and it was just on.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Allow me to regale you with stories of CRT tv’s from the 80’s that had to ‘warm up.’
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I can hear the click and the high pitched whine now.
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 3 months ago
They usually boot up faster because the Android side of it is just in sleep mode so it only needs to start up the panel. My smart TV turns on in like 1-3 seconds, a cold start is like a solid minute.
My older TV displayed the splash screen for a good 5 seconds as the panel backlight warmed up, and then it had to figure out the input and set it all up. That said once it was up, the menu was much much snappier and always responsive, which the Android TV side well, struggles.
SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I have a 12 years old TV if not older. Turns on instant.
How have consumers got to accept something like this as normal?
WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Filthy casual.
My family has a Chiq U58G7P. Cold boots take a few minutes and warm boots about 30 sec.
Don’t try and press any buttons on the remote during this time or for a while afterwards. They might work, 15 seconds later, or they might get ignored. Sometimes your button press inputs get re-ordered too.
Factory resets do work, but then all it can do is broadcast TV. If you let it update and install streaming apps then you will be back to the same problems.
I suspect that it might be running out of RAM and thrashing some poor innocent MMC as swap, but I can’t find a USB ADB port to properly debug it (maybe it has one internally?).