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[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oops, stepped on another $1200 landmine did you? Should have researched where you put your foot. Everyone knows this neighborhood is littered with landmines. No, there's nothing we can really do about it except hand out these exhaustive charts and navigation tools. Of course they need to constantly get re-updated and are themselves periodically hijacked by the pro-landmine industry to turn into a second-tier grift. But that just means you have to research who you research for your TV research.

Don't worry, you'll get it eventually. God gave us two legs for a reason.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So smart TVs are now smartass TVs?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (8 children)

computer monitor + sound bar?

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Looked at the CES reveals and aside from some minor improvements, its nothing but overloaded AI crap.

Even on TVs from 10 years ago, the first thing you had to do was turn off the stupid auto frame generation, smoothing, lighting, and other effects so you can actually enjoy your content in original detail and correct FPS.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Sceptre makes a decent dumb tv.

I have one. I like it. 4k. Good enough for me.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The Nvidia shield ships with the exact same OS as many of these smart TVs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

It's still better. It uses stock android base. So normal play store.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fair enough, but this setup won't display an ad on top of my game console feed, like shown above. No guarantee a brand new Android TV won't start doing this after, could even start doing this after a firmware update.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

When I bought my Sony TV from Costco, it let me skip all of the agreements and sign-ups and accounts the day that I bought it. Fast forward a few months later after the return window was over, I turned it on one day and I had to agree to all the different things and it started asking me for an account, if I recall.

I will never buy another smart TV ever in my life.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Its pretty hard to avoid at this point if you want anything larger than a big computer monitor or a refresh rate above 60hz.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Interesting! I'll have to see if I can find one to a good price in Germany. Thanks for sharing.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

This is where I would go to research a new tv https://www.rtings.com/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Doesn’t the Shield use Google Android? That box is also spying on you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yes it does. A significant portion of the traffic gets caught by pihole. I haven't taken the time of rooting it so far. But with an alternative launcher, SmartTube and Jellyfin, I have a completely ads free watching experience :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

pretty sure it can be rooted + degoogled.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago

Verification can when?

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