This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I see a lot of concern in this thread that future TVs would just peer-to-peer or cellular connect to do their dastardly functions. Wouldn't this be preventable by putting a fine wire mesh around the box on the rear of the panel? Sure, the signal could still go out through the panel, but that's bound to incur a lot of interference from the panel itself, right?
Ahw fuck, wasn't LG like the last reasonable tv brand out there?
What should invuy if i want a new good 4K TV?
umm guys this isn't a news article, it's a Black Mirror episode
For now, most of the ad bullshit can be turned off. Though it turned back on after the latest software update and forced me to spend another 10 minutes digging through the horrendous settings menu.
Continue to never buy LG products again?
Gotcha. The advertising works, i guess...maybe not how they wanted to, though lol
My next TV will be either a business/signage monitor or a computer monitor.
At least something without any connection outside. No network, no anything.
At most something like a Chromecast or similar.
"I dont want it to have anything, except google, the biggest invader of privacy there is" :p
You can still set up your own HTPC in your living room and configure it yourself.
And there are more solutions like from Apple (but they absolutely fucking track you as well) or other streaming box/stick solutions I am not aware of.
Unsure how good an Nvidia Shield is in regards to privacy. Your best bet for privacy is probably to just build your own solution on Linux.
Oh, they do have products without all that shit. They offer large screen monitors that are basically their TVs without the "smart" part.
i wager it has all the TV stuff gutted out, including the tuner.. Which admittedly is only a problem if you use OTA and not cable.
They have a bunch of display ports and HDMIs. You can buy the tuner you need (SAT, OTA, cable, other streamer), or use a PC&Linux and watch YT add-free.
