• slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Instead of buying a TV, look for a digital signage display. It’s a TV, but with none of the “smart” crap on it.

    Alternatively, just don’t hook your device up to the internet.

  • Synapse@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    My current TV has started to die. It’s developing a purple spot that starts to be very distracting. I am not excited about researching a new model that doesn’t pull out this kind a shit on me. I don’t intend to ever connect it to the Internet. My current TV is nothing more than a big display for my NVIDIA shield TV and the next one will be the same.

      • zod000@lemmy.ml
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        23 days ago

        I got their 1080p 43" “dumb” model for $150 not too long ago. I wouldn’t choose it for my main living room TV, but it is perfectly fine for what I needed it for and they can’t retroactively make it worse like the Roku tv it replaced.

        • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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          23 days ago

          I think mine was around 300 and is 47”. I don’t watch a lot of tv, it’s mostly there for the kids. The 4k picture looks amazing when I do use it. I do most of my gaming on my Steam Deck and I dock that to a 720p Samsung I’ve had for 18 years now (Was very high end when I got it). It is good enough for me.

          I’m about to inherit my daughter’s gaming laptop and I’ll plug that in the bedroom and be happy with it too.

          • zod000@lemmy.ml
            1·
            23 days ago

            $300 isn’t too bad of a price for a 47" 4K where they aren’t getting extra money from your data and ads. I went for the 1080p model because at the distance we sit at it was impossible to tell the difference based on the 4K Roku TV is replaced.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    23 days ago

    Not as bad as this, but when I moved to a new town I got a free big TV with my new ISP. I was going with that ISP anyways so a free 4k HDR TV on top was a nice bonus.

    I wish I had gotten some other bonus. Viewing angle is atrocious and it is impossible to get rid of the input lag (no there isn’t a gaming mode or similar) so no games with precise timing can be played.

    So now we have a big living room TV that is too good to replace with something better but bad enough to be a little bit annoying.