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'Home' devices now 'TOO' smart!!??
Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 12, 2021, 04:25:55 am ---
--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on July 12, 2021, 03:38:58 am ---TVs are already plagued by this now, you cannot buy a non smart TV anymore. At least not easily.
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You'll have an easier time if you look for monitors. Which is more or less what a "non smart" TV is - a smart TV minus the built in player.
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They omit the DHCP rubbish on monitors, don't they? Set top boxes refuse playback don't they?
Red Squirrel:
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 12, 2021, 04:25:55 am ---
--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on July 12, 2021, 03:38:58 am ---TVs are already plagued by this now, you cannot buy a non smart TV anymore. At least not easily.
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You'll have an easier time if you look for monitors. Which is more or less what a "non smart" TV is - a smart TV minus the built in player.
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TV sized monitors are going to require a second mortgage though. That's basically getting into commercial grade stuff like fast food displays and will cost the same as a small car. You also won't easily be able to find this at any store.
NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on July 12, 2021, 06:47:21 am ---TV sized monitors are going to require a second mortgage though. That's basically getting into commercial grade stuff like fast food displays and will cost the same as a small car. You also won't easily be able to find this at any store.
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Depending on what you consider to be "TV sized", a quick Newegg search finds a 43" IPS 4K for about $500.
https://www.newegg.com/acer-um-md1aa-001-43-uhd/p/0JC-000P-00CK2?quicklink=true
I think a more reasonable solution would be for a community like XDA to get more involved in hacking smart TVs. I don't think we'll be complaining about the smart stuff if we could reprogram it to do what we want.
PlainName:
I have an older Samsung smart TV and my solution is to never have it connected to the network. Programs are delivered via MythTV or Amazon dongle or whatever. However, my rationale for going that way was primarily because TVs get old and their apps no longer work well, if at all, with providers as requirements change. Seemed to me best to cut to the chase and implement things how I wanted rather than put up with their idea of what they wanted me to like, which would bite the dust at some point anyway.
Actually, similar reason for not using built-in DHCP or DNS on a router.
aandrew:
Nothing wrong with *some* smart TVs; my Roku TV is quite nice in that it doesn't have any of that ad shit and the experience is pretty decent. You do have to be careful though, like others have said it is becoming a cesspool.
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