Not a total "dumb TV", any TV that has Google TV can be set into "basic TV" mode.
Best Dumb TVs
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a difference between a dumb tv and a smart tv that you leave on hdmi1 input ?
Smart TV has at least a WebKit framework in which to do all kinds of apps (Netflix, Hulu), ads, and probing of your viewing habits. Smart TV have a absolute requirement of having an Ethernet port/WiFi in which to “optionally” do Internet with.
what I meant is that if you leave the tv on a different input than the one that has the built-in media player, does the tv can still show you ads and track you ?
Is it impossible now to completely avoid the built-in OS ?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Smart TV has at least a WebKit framework in which to do all kinds of apps (Netflix, Hulu), ads, and probing of your viewing habits. Smart TV have a absolute requirement of having an Ethernet port/WiFi in which to “optionally” do Internet with.
what I meant is that if you leave the tv on a different input than the one that has the built-in media player, does the tv can still show you ads and track you ? Is it impossible now to completely avoid the built-in OS ?
If you plug the Smart TV to the Internet, the TV will dastardly display ads, sometimes over HDMI, sometimes over composite video, and mostly through the TV apps.
Keeping the Internet away from the TV and you should be entirely just fine and ad-free.
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#24Best dumb Large TV are the SmartTV that have its WiFi antenna disconnected and not plugged into the Internet. Sceptre Model U65 is a 4K UHD, 65” 3840x2860 that supports Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) upscaling, HDMI 2.0, HDCP v2.2. Best part? No Ethernet plug nor WiFi. It’s nearly $649 USD (or still almost $10/screen-inch).
> It’s nearly $649 USD (or still almost $10/screen-inch). That's crazy expensive for a TV of such quality.
I'm not even sure where OP is getting those numbers, because a google search instantly found it for under $400
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#25Best dumb Large TV are the SmartTV that have its WiFi antenna disconnected and not plugged into the Internet. Sceptre Model U65 is a 4K UHD, 65” 3840x2860 that supports Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) upscaling, HDMI 2.0, HDCP v2.2. Best part? No Ethernet plug nor WiFi. It’s nearly $649 USD (or still almost $10/screen-inch).
Is there a difference between a dumb tv and a smart tv that you leave on hdmi1 input ?
There is functionally no difference.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
what I meant is that if you leave the tv on a different input than the one that has the built-in media player, does the tv can still show you ads and track you ? Is it impossible now to completely avoid the built-in OS ?
If you plug the Smart TV to the Internet, the TV will dastardly display ads, sometimes over HDMI, sometimes over composite video, and mostly through the TV apps. Keeping the Internet away from the TV and you should be entirely just fine and ad-free.
wow, even over hdmi...that's messed up.
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#27Unsurprisingly, every 4K TV on this list is Sceptre.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Ireland’s TV licensing law Can you expand on this? What is this law? What's the impact on a TV vs. a monitor?
The law basically says a panel with the capacity to receive a TV signal via integrated receiver is a TV. That means you owe a fee for the privilege of owning such a device. Simply removing the receiver circuit is not valid, since it can be repaired. https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/consumer/phone_interne... Has a summary.
Thanks for the link. From the article:
"A TV licence costs €160"
"You can be fined up to €1,000 (or €2,000 for subsequent offences) if you do not have a TV licence when you need one."
"An Post keeps a database of every premises which should have a TV licence. The database is regularly updated."
"A TV inspector could visit your premises to check if you have a TV."
"If you have been fined and you breach court orders directing you to pay their television licence, you can be imprisoned."
Wow, that is just ridiculous, insane really. Particularly when you consider that lower income households could definitely use the €160.
I've always said it, there's a huge difference between what you read about a place or experience as a tourist and actually living there. I see this in comments from Europeans who have never lived in the US.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
what I meant is that if you leave the tv on a different input than the one that has the built-in media player, does the tv can still show you ads and track you ? Is it impossible now to completely avoid the built-in OS ?
If you plug the Smart TV to the Internet, the TV will dastardly display ads, sometimes over HDMI, sometimes over composite video, and mostly through the TV apps. Keeping the Internet away from the TV and you should be entirely just fine and ad-free.
You're saying that some TVs will display ads when, for example, I'm using my Switch connected to an HDMI port? What kind of dystopia is this? Do you have an example of this happening?
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#30Not a total "dumb TV", any TV that has Google TV can be set into "basic TV" mode. https://support.google.com/googletv/answer/10408998?hl=en
Last time I looked into this trying to get PiHole working on my TV, I found an article that said some TVs give you the option to override the DNS but on the code side it just completely ignored the manual DNS change.