Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.

teft@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bonus points for buying a smart TV to get the heavily discounted price and never connecting it to the internet.

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  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Some of the brands have been reported to not allow you to do anything until it has an internet connection to do its “initial setup” (or some such excuse).

    I hope I can find a list of which ones to avoid when I have to eventually replace my old dumb TV.

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    • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then right back to the store it goes and labelled as defective so it gets tossed resulting in losses for all companies involved.

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      • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Of course, but that’s a lot more effort than it should be.

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even then, you’re still having to wait for its CPU to fuck around with the image and sound before it actually outputs it,

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