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I want my smart Android TV to be dumb again (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Smart TVs are all well and good, but when ad-focused update lobotomized my new-ish Android TV, we hit a problem.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Sceptre makes a good dumb TV. I use one personally and other than taking a few extra seconds to boot up, it's fantastic. No WiFi info to load, no pop ups, just a big dumb pane of LEDs and ports to use them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It’s a VA panel tho 🙁

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

VA has gotten really good over the years and I‘d prefer it over a similarly priced IPS, if neither has local dimming or quantum dots or something like that. VA has so much better contrast. Of course, it’s nothing against OLED, QLED, microLED, etc but it’s also in a very different price class.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We need more dumb tv's in the higher price class.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

In my experience, most smart tvs work perfectly fine without being intrusive, if you simply never connect them to the internet.

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