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[-] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Anybody have un-enshittified 4k tv recommendations?

Mainly want good picture quality for movies + high refresh rate for games.

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[-] Lighttrails@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I got a Hisense tv in November and never connected it to the internet. Now I am extremely pleased that I never connected it.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Fuck that. heh.

I use a TV for my computer monitor and it's perfect. I do not use any of the TV features. And it pisses me off when something happens to lose my signal and it switches over into TV mode because it autoplays some free channel that spouts fascist nonsense. I have to poke around for the remote (which is always around but never close because I only need it every month or few months) so I can cut that shit off as soon as possible. heh

Any video I need to watch happens via my computer, thanks, where I'm in control.

[-] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 1 points 1 month ago

I have a Hisense that I bought late last year and have never connected it to the internet (I stream everything through my PS5) and boyhowdy does that TV take every chance it gets to let me know I'm not connected lol

[-] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 month ago

I have a "smart" TV, but it has never been connected to the internet for reasons such as this. Also I don't want it spying on me, which is a thing society has to deal with now for some reason, and we just let it happen.

We should be burning the corporate headquarters for these places down when they try shit like this.

[-] Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Holy shit, glad I put my hisense behind a pihole blocking all domain lookups and never updated it

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I have never connected a TV to the Internet. I do have a smart TV but I just use it for my computer.

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[-] cambodia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

How hard is it for companies to just make a good screen screen with the necessary ports any nothing else.

We are all losing our minds.

[-] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It's textbook rent-seeking behavior. They discount the TV $201 to undercut someone else, and make up the difference selling the ads over the life of the TV.

This is how SO many things work, it's only surprising that it's taken this long. If you watch YT on this fancy TV, you're getting the same thing.

[-] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I took the money I was going to spend on a TV and bought a 50 inch on facebook market place. Then, I got a last-gen gaming PC. Is it tedious? yes, but I can play video games and watch whatever I want without getting spied on so its a fucking win. *ads from changing the inputs and channels on your own device?" fuck you. I hope this tv lasts the next two decades.

[-] rebornAnew@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

this is actually fucking terrifying

[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

I'm feeling a lot less crazy having my strict rule on AV equipment:
It should work out the box without connecting to the internet, and it shouldn't be connected without a damned good reason.
To the point that I insisted on setting up the PS5 and playing a game on it before connecting, just to be sure.

[-] Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

That's my only gripe with my ONN box... the remote gets updates. seems sus. But I don't give it microphone permissions so hopefully that's sufficient.

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

"To use this vacuum cleaner you have to watch some ads."

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