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[–] RustyWizard@programming.dev 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Nah, smart TV with media box. You get the ad adjusted price, you merely don't hook it up to the Internet.

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[–] LiquorFan@pathfinder.social 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I'm never buying a "smart" anything, aside from phones. I put up with Android and it already feels like too much.

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[–] RustyWizard@programming.dev 1 point 3 years ago

By all means. But "smart" TVs come at a discount because they believe they'll have opportunities to make revenue off of those features. However, if you prevent the thing from connecting to the Internet then you get the best of both worlds. Cheaper and ad free.

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[–] Nioxic@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

What is "media box"?

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[–] RustyWizard@programming.dev 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

Chromecast, Kodi, Roku, Apple TV, Nvidia shield, fire TV, etc.

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[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Fire TV firmware also just gets worse and worse with each new version. Netflix app also follows suit.

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[–] RustyWizard@programming.dev 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Does it? I've never had one. I have a Kodi box and a Chromecast. I'll be sure to avoid the fire brand, then.

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[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

The one saving grace is that it's cheap and you can install Kodi on it.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

I have a Fire Stick and a newer Vizio TV. For a while I could tell Alexa to turn in the TV: the Fire Stick would turn on, then use HDMI-CEC to turn on the TV and select its input. Worked great and I didn’t have to deal with Vizio

Then at some point Alexa started controlling the TV itself instead. Now I have to choose whether to deal with Vizio or to do more clicks to get to my streaming device. I really need to figure out how to get the original configuration back

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[–] d0m@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

You don't get any dumb TVs in my country anymore. I'd assume its the same everywhere else unless you're going back a minimum 5 years of tech evolution, which might not be all too bad.