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Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I'm tempted to go back to htpc lol. The tracking is so bad these days. I need to block the mac of my tv (Google tv) and just do a tiny PC or something instead.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's still a great idea, the problem is good high definition high refresh rate panels without smart features are harder and harder to find

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I agree, but you can completely ignore the smart tv features and just use your hdmi pretty instead.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    But it's not that easy a lot of TVs will only boot into the smart TV (and that's already slow) and will only let you pick external inputs from there, often requiring to select it everytime!

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