Good day! I am trying to find a good alternative as not to use the"smart" functions or using an Xbox to consume our media. I found a few options ie like plasma big screen but it’s no longer in development. Essentially I would line love to have it running on an rpi4 and just hooked up to the TV.
It’s been years since I’ve shopped for a TV, but… can’t you just not connect it to the internet? I have a little microPC running Linux connected to our TV; it’s smarter than any other TV I’ve seen, but the TV itself is stupid.
Why can’t someone just get a smart TV and just never let it get online?
I mean, sure, if I had my 'druthers, I wouldn’t be paying for features I don’t use, but if it’s literally impossible to buy dumb TVs, what’s the issue?
I used to do that but it would constantly nag until I connected it
Hmm. Just curious: did you try creating a tar pit subnet for it, which it could connect to but not escape from?
Definitely curious as well, but so far haven’t gotten around to trying
I mean, someday I’ll get a new TV, and I’d just been assuming I’d leave it disconnected… but I hadn’t thought about the nagware, and that would definitely be an issue.
Mines connected for home automation but can’t connect to the internet. Blocking the Mac address from going out.
They TV companies make lots of money from selling ad space and preinstalled apps. (They likely sell at a loss initially)