Op-ed: TV screensavers shouldn't show immigration ads from the Trump administration.
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Cheap TVs’ incessant advertising reaches troubling new lows
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Is there a decent TV that doesn't have ads and other smart tv slop baked into it?
I'm still running a ten year old pre-smart tv Samsung and I will need to buy another TV for the house in the next year or so. I might have bought another TV prior to this but I just dont like the "Smart" features. I just want a 60+inch monitor that I plug another box into to consume content.
From a Millennial Luddite
I'm still running a ten year old pre-smart tv Samsung and I will need to buy another TV for the house in the next year or so. I might have bought another TV prior to this but I just dont like the "Smart" features. I just want a 60+inch monitor that I plug another box into to consume content.
From a Millennial Luddite
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How much of this is country specific?
I have a Roku TV, and in Canada, I don't see any of the annoyances that have been mentioned in the last several articles about smart TVs.
I have a Roku TV, and in Canada, I don't see any of the annoyances that have been mentioned in the last several articles about smart TVs.
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Use a computer monitor. Hook it up to a video game console, box, or HTPC.
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It's going to be a total shock to my system when I need to look for a replacement for our 2009 tv, especially since I have grown up without cable, and now I have ad blockers on all my devices.
I hope the TV's can just not be connected to the internet?
I hope the TV's can just not be connected to the internet?
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So... What exactly is the difference between this and the Vidscreen in Winston Smith's apartment? The ability to turn the display off (for now)?
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There’s stuff like floor display/industrial TVs, or large computer monitors.
You will pay for the privilege of privacy, though.
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Sceptre makes non-smart TVs, as does ViewSonic if I recall. But if you're looking for Samsung/LG quality panels with zero smart stuff, you're not going to find them, but you can still technically run them without ever connecting them to the internet.
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I intentionally don't connect my TV to the internet to stop this sort of nonsense. Granted, my Nvidia Shield or Roku could at some point start showing terrible ads, as well, but so far it's been okay.
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Sure, I'd work to avoid this, but I wonder how many wouldn't even notice this feature. I've lost count of the number of times I've walked into a random empty room in the US to find a TV blasting out some racist, homophobic, or antisemitic message, and my first objective becomes to locate the remote to turn it off (usually I change the channel first, then turn it off, so that people aren't blasted with racism when they want little Timmy to watch a show). I think FOX serves as background noise for a huge portion of America, and it's effectively treated as a screensaver already.
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I look forward to a future where I have to drink the verification can to get my TV telescreen to stop playing Trump ads.
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Even Big Fucking Gaming Monitors or whatever they were called are on the small end for TVs. If you want a large format display that doesn't look like complete shit and supports modern display features that you'd expect in a TV, you don't really have much choice.
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These ads don't work if you never connect the TV to the internet and only use it through HDMI cables and other wired connections, right? Or do the TVs require access to your WiFi router and internet access?
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George Orwell only thought he was writing a cautionary tale. Apparently 1984 was an instruction manual after all. Enjoy your telescreen, Comrade.
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I have an LG OLED TV that has never been given internet access with an Apple TV attached to it. No ads from LG this way.
I believe I also disabled their "Home" thing in the settings, so it's just a stupid display on startup.
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This is why my TV isn't connected to the internet. I've turned on the wi-fi once or twice to download software updates, then it immediately gets disabled again. If I want to stream anything, I have separate streaming devices for that. Make TVs dumb again.
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Same deal with my Sony OLED. It's just a dumb panel because I refuse to allow it to be anything else.
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I wouldn't be surprised if some of the TV OSes require you to complete "setup" prior to being able to select an HDMI input.
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This is the end result of the always-on philosophy in regards to screens. People want bigger and bigger and then they're offended by black slabs taking up wall space and so they want something instead of nothing, caring little about the power draw because they are often instructed by youtubers to turn off energy saving settings on their tvs as a matter of course. No wonder big brother wants to take advantage of that. Consider a future where TV manufacturers will be required to allow override of whatever is playing to pipe official livestreams after the alert sound that cannot be silenced.
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Buy a cheap TV, hook it up to a computer, then don't give it the WiFi password. You get the ad subsidy, they get nothing.
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I think mine did, so I just changed the PW temporarily, let it set up, then changed it back. Die angry about it, Roku.
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Biggest I've seen is 48", which I currently use on my desk. It would certainly feel small in a standard living room, but for a smaller living space it would be fine.
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I will never buy a TV given their dystopian reality.
Monitors all the way!
(Alternatively, anyone demonstrated how to jailbreak a TV OS yet?)
Monitors all the way!
(Alternatively, anyone demonstrated how to jailbreak a TV OS yet?)
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I'd really like to know if this is true because every other time someone has claimed that you had to connect a TV to the internet before you could use it, they've been full of shit.
Not that anyone needs any more reasons to avoid anything Roku, but that would be a big one.
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iHeartRadio = Clear Channel, who are basically the Sinclair Broadcasting of Radio.
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When people start making good monitors in the 75-100" range, I'll seriously consider them. I've always just wanted a monitor for my TV, even before smart TVs were a thing.
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