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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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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 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.

[–] Sumocat@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

💯 I bought a Sceptre as a smaller living room TV, which became our main TV, and it’s great. A smart TV is just a good TV with a crap computer built into it. I’d rather just have the good TV.

[–] tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

Great info, we need a list of such TV which are single purposed.

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] accideath@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 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.

[–] Alk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] accideath@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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