How do I buy a new television
How do I buy a new television
I want to buy a large new tv mostly for my steamdeck. I dont want it to access the internet for obvious reasons. I live in a community with wide open wifi everywhere that requires no password, so devices turned on here just hook up automatically. Im not tech savvy so wont be doing any raspberry pi black magic. Any suggestions about specific televisions or workarounds in this situation would be greatly appreciated.
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Oh interesting.
As far as connecting the internet, there shouldn't be any issue. I seriously doubt it will automatically connect to anything unless you tell it to.
Thanks for the link. Super helpful. I guess Im assuming in our new zero privacy dystopia that manufacturers would automatically have wifi turned on the second you powered up your tv or not allow you to use it until it "updates" or you create an "account". Christ man, starting to think this world is giving me paranoia and ptsd.
I've seen people comment on a tech-heavy web forum about their smart TVs connecting to wifi against their wishes. I'm talking about software developers and hardware engineers who say this.
Get TVs made specifically for commercial use. They tend to be cheaper and have all the stupid "smart" features stripped out.
You want this. Search for a commercial tv.
You can use a smart tv but not connect it to the wifi. We have a Phillips 43pfs5525 and we just never connected it to the wifi.
When you turn your tv on does it just boot up with the wifi on? Thats mostly my concern.
The wifi may be on, but it won't automatically connect to a network, even if it's open. You'd have to specify which network to connect to.
My advice? Steer clear of Samsung. I have two and the HDR implementation on both is absolute shit with no way to disable it. Picture looks great without it, but with it turned on everything is dark, muddy and unwatchable.
Only way around it is to disable HDR on every device connected to it.
It boots with wifi on, but if you don't connect to anything, you should be ok.
I'd say get a computer monitor rather than something sold as a TV. Less likely to spy on you. If your TV has a microphone, assume it is listening.
If you go this route be aware a sizeable number of cheap monitors have no speakers so you would need a solution to this
LG recently had a nice set of stripped-down-to-monitor TVs, i.e. TVs without that "smart" crap. Available in TV sizes, but none of the junk that spouts ads or intrudes into your privacy.
gah. I really want an oled tv that is just a monitor
I picked up an LG OLED 50 " on sale for $899.00 at Best buy. Pretty decent deal for a full OLED screen. It has all the smart shit, I just don't connect to wifi. Librelec works great through a PI. The HDMI transmits remote control through HDMI cable and I can control the media server with the same remote. Pleasant surprise.
I have an Onn TV that I quite enjoy. I intend to eventually connect it to an isolated network where it won't have real Internet access, but for now I just use it as a 4k dumb tv