Is it still possible to buy HD TVs that are not smart? That's a niche that may interest HN readers; I prefer smartness through a peripheral...
The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal (2017)
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#142I've gotten nothing out of my Smart TV that I couldn't have gotten from a Chromecast, or preferably, a laptop hooked up to a TV. And I've lost a lot. My TV is slow. When I try to control the volume, sometimes I have to wait multiple seconds. And things stop working all the time and require a reboot. I hate the damn thing. It even comes with bloatware for some reason, games I'll never play that it insists on updating…
In Europe, people have started purchasing so-called public displays instead of Smart TVs and just hook up a Chromecast/Pi/Fire TV Stick to it. This is especially common in countries where one can avoid public broadcasting fees by doing so.
I'll do this for my next "TV", however I might never buy a new one really. Unless it dies I don't really feel the need to upgrade it.
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#143I've gotten nothing out of my Smart TV that I couldn't have gotten from a Chromecast, or preferably, a laptop hooked up to a TV. And I've lost a lot. My TV is slow. When I try to control the volume, sometimes I have to wait multiple seconds. And things stop working all the time and require a reboot. I hate the damn thing. It even comes with bloatware for some reason, games I'll never play that it insists on updating…
In Europe, people have started purchasing so-called public displays instead of Smart TVs and just hook up a Chromecast/Pi/Fire TV Stick to it. This is especially common in countries where one can avoid public broadcasting fees by doing so.
What do you mean with "public displays"? I researched a little bit before buying my TV and couldn't find decent options in terms of cost, size and quality of the panel.
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#144On the Max Headroom TV show, it became illegal for people to turn off their TVs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_(TV_series)#Plot Would it be outlandish for the tech industry to lobby that Smart TVs and computers be given a 911 style emergency calling system, then for emergency dispatchers to have access to surveillance information, then for such devices to be required to be turned on all the time?
I mean it's not like your TV ever truly turns "off", is it? A lot of them power on at least the red/green LED light showing that it's "off" and who knows what else.
A TV set never turns off! It is well known in the industry. Standby usually just turns of the LCD, backlight and changes LED colour.
Try this: Switch TV to standby then turn on. Time how long this takes. Unplug TV for 30 seconds plug in and then turn on. It will take a while for the TV to boot from cold start.
Manufacturers have been doing this since CRTs.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Europe, people have started purchasing so-called public displays instead of Smart TVs and just hook up a Chromecast/Pi/Fire TV Stick to it. This is especially common in countries where one can avoid public broadcasting fees by doing so.
What do you mean with "public displays"? I researched a little bit before buying my TV and couldn't find decent options in terms of cost, size and quality of the panel.
This category: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=monplas
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#146Is it still possible to buy HD TVs that are not smart? That's a niche that may interest HN readers; I prefer smartness through a peripheral...
You can buy monitors made for commercial usage, such as signage. They'll be simple monitors with no TV tuner or "smart" functionality, and they'll be built to better resist burn-in.
They'll also cost you at least 2-3 times as much as an equivalent consumer TV.
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#147Louis: Really?
Inspector: Sure!
Louis: Ohh!
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#148This piece challenges the current narrative you read in the press. China is an evil surveillance state that spies on its citizens and the rest of the world. Now we know. The greatest democracy of the world also spies on its citizen and the rest of the world.
This is just extreme whataboutism. There is a vast difference between China spying on and locking people up for being the wrong religion, and the CIA secretly recording a conversation about the planning of a bombing.
> This is just extreme whataboutism.
No.
> There is a vast difference between China spying
No.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_the...
careful, long page.
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#149Is it still possible to buy HD TVs that are not smart? That's a niche that may interest HN readers; I prefer smartness through a peripheral...
There are a few, such as this one https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8159898
Re: The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal (2017)
#150I hate my Samsung Smart TV too. It auto-installed a Rakuten TV app that several times a week would switch from the only channel we watch (BBC News) to channel 4000 showing trailers for its video-on-demand pay per view service. Samsung makes it very hard to uninstall this 'feature' and even kills threads about it on its web site support forum. I had to got back to the shop I bought it from and threaten to return the T…
So did they finally show you how to remove that app? What did that entail?