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Ask Soylent: Best Bang for Buck Television Purchase

posted by mrpg on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the i-hate-shopping dept.

Sulla writes:

So one of my three year old kids smashed my 65" LED flatscreen with a die-cast model of the Atlantis shuttle. I was fine with this and was not planning on buying a replacement in any haste but my wife keeps complaining. Would prefer at least 65"+ and absolutely not a smart tv. What suggestions do you have, companies to avoid, etc. Help me SN, you are probably my only hope of not just buying another spysung.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @08:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @08:00AM (#625558)

    What's wrong with a "smart TV"? It's just a UI. It can't spy on you unless you connect it to a Wi-Fi/Ethernet network. It should be usable without doing so, and could probably do useful stuff like play files on USB storage.

    Yes, you'd think they should be usable without connecting the things up to the interwibblez, but as others have pointed out some of them require network connection for things like the EPG and some even require it for the damn remote controls to operate.
    My dumb (probably Linux based) TV currently plays most media content I throw at it on USB devices without having a network connection, for the stuff it can't handle, I've an Android based 'Kodi box' connected to it.

    Even ignoring the 'Big Brother' aspects of the technology, sad to say there's money to be made from monitoring your viewing habits...and corporations are greedy, if nothing else. Being a cynical bastard, I'm of the opinion that's the way the people who want the 'Big Brother' facilities that smart TVs offer installed on every device without having to pass any legislation (which would give the game away) sold the idea to the manufacturers and the marketing wankers, greed, and they're happy as they get their 30 pieces...