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Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?

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What a bad article. A TV without smart features is simply called a monitor. Monitors are also usually much higher quality than TVs.

Monitor is a different device compared to a TV. TV without smart features is simply called a TV.

That is incorrect. A TV is simply a low-quality monitor, possibly with some kind of tuner or extra superfluous low-quality peripherals.

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Simple, just put it in a Faraday cage.

It’s not that simple. The Faraday cage I got from Costco seems to phone home to a server in China. Obviously I returned it and used the money to buy a whole lot of tinfoil.

I’m… not sure if you are joking.

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If only a small size (up to 32ish inches) needed 4k monitor would probably surfice

43" 4K monitors also exist. E.g., Gigabyte AORUS FV43U. I am using it right now.

If you need OLED, use Gigabyte AORUS FO48U (48").

And here is a 55" quantum dot monitor: Gigabyte AORUS S55U.

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I've designed and built many such TVs for the commercial/industrial vertical. I am currently working on developing such a TV for the consumer market and launching it under the name DUMBO.TV Let me know your thoughts. Reference pix of 70" industrial display using Samsung LCD panel and in-house LCD controller with physical OSD menu buttons along with IR/RS232 control capability: https://imgur.com/a/k6zrH3s

If you survive the lawsuit from Disney, I’m in. I’d prefer a much smaller tv (32-40”) but I’m weird like that. All I’d want is an input for an Apple TV and maybe 2 more hdmi plugs. Doesn’t even need a remote. Good luck.

+1. 32" diagonal, 4 HDMI inputs, and you have another customer.

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Wait, this Disney lawsuit thing is news to me. What's up with that? You're right, in the consumer market, there's a much higher demand for 32-40" display. Our UHD controller can easily handle that and comes with 5x total input ports [ 3x HDMI(V1.4a), 1x HDMI(V2.0), 1x DisplayPort(V1.2) ] and can run 3840x2160 or 4096x2160 resolutions @ 120Hz.

I think he meant that DUMBO is a name of a disney character

Aah, gotcha! Boy, I really overlooked that one. My primary goal was to come up with an easy to remember name/domain that expressed "DUMB TV" and dumbo.tv was available. Oh well, I'll have to rethink that part through a little more.

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As others have said, it's probably easiest to resign yourself to reality. Buy a newer TV with a good panel, which will be a "smart" TV, and make sure to never connect it to the Internet. You can get a smart remote from there to overcome some of the quirks.

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Keep us updated. I'd likely pay 2x what I payed for my LG C2 for a "dumb" version. Even if just to support such a project.

Your LG C2 is a dumb tv - if you dont connect it to the internet. You can even buy a $10 IR remote control on amazon and use that to switch inputs. Or, in my experience, all of my external devices support HDMI CEC and auto switch when i use them.

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this is screaming for an open source tool and/or firmware to "dumb down" smart TVs.

On Google TV it could apply app & service configuration settings to turn off networking, recommendations, home screen content and just enable the input-switcher . Since it is Android based, there are lots of tools using ADB, debug tools, device policy etc that could work.

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Wow, they sure do. Page 29 of the user guide for the Nespresso Zenius says - This coffee machine is equipped with M2M (Machine to Machine) techology which may be activated in due time with your agreement. Thanks to a SIM card already integrated in the machine, such network connections will offer new services (subject to further terms and conditions) to its customers and improve the after sales process by automaticall…

I imagine that can be disabled physically?

Everything can be disabled physically.

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Wait, this Disney lawsuit thing is news to me. What's up with that? You're right, in the consumer market, there's a much higher demand for 32-40" display. Our UHD controller can easily handle that and comes with 5x total input ports [ 3x HDMI(V1.4a), 1x HDMI(V2.0), 1x DisplayPort(V1.2) ] and can run 3840x2160 or 4096x2160 resolutions @ 120Hz.

Edit: Nevermind, apparently they already did claim it.

Huge companies often dabble in a lot of stuff that people don't immediately associate them with, and hold trademarks for those products/services:

https://assets.catawiki.com/image/cw_normal/plain/assets/cat...

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