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'Home' devices now 'TOO' smart!!??

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SiliconWizard:
My current Samsung TV is pretty good and is still not very "smart". If/when I'll change it, I will definitely consider buying a monitor with no software except image settings. Yes they are more expensive than TV sets - for reasons exposed in this thread, and the fact they target a different market - but this will be the price for avoiding all the crap. The playing videos, receiving TV channels or satellite, etc, can be done with external devices that embed no crap either.

Yes, this is a more expensive option. But very large TV sets have become "dirt cheap" for what they are. Maybe it's time to get back to reality, instead of just letting things drift towards privacy invasion, surveillance, non-sustainable production, and so on. Oh and devices that end up with more bugs than my garden. No thanks =)

james_s:

--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on July 13, 2021, 04:21:31 pm ---Wow sounds like a pain.   I sure hope my current TV lasts a long time.   Going to assume the newer ones won't let you even use them if you don't plug into a network?

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All that I've seen will work just fine if you don't connect them to the network. I'd still rather not have the "smart" features in the first place but whatever, at least you can mostly bypass them. Personally what I'd love is just a monitor with a great picture and about 10 HDMI ports and a nice simple interface that makes it fast and easy to select the input I want and adjust the picture settings.

bd139:
If anyone finds a 43” 4K one of them please let me know. Want exactly the same.

Red Squirrel:

--- Quote from: james_s on July 13, 2021, 05:24:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on July 13, 2021, 04:21:31 pm ---Wow sounds like a pain.   I sure hope my current TV lasts a long time.   Going to assume the newer ones won't let you even use them if you don't plug into a network?

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All that I've seen will work just fine if you don't connect them to the network. I'd still rather not have the "smart" features in the first place but whatever, at least you can mostly bypass them. Personally what I'd love is just a monitor with a great picture and about 10 HDMI ports and a nice simple interface that makes it fast and easy to select the input I want and adjust the picture settings.

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Yeah same, that's really all I want out of a TV, a nice display with a bunch of inputs.   Basically a monitor but without the price tag of a monitor that size.  Like what TVs used to be.

james_s:
To be fair, TVs used to be priced like monitors are today, but then prices plummeted, partly because they are subsidized by the data gathering and advertising platform abilities offered by the smart TVs. I still remember when a basic flat panel TV that would be considered small by modern standards was over $2k. I recently found the receipt for the 25" console TV my grandfather bought in 1984 and it cost $700 in 1984 dollars and that was with $100 knocked off because he bought the floor model. It's easy to forget how much stuff used to cost.

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