> Yes it's fatter than those newfangled flat things, but it doesn't watch me watching it, it doesn't record my conversations, and it doesn't report my viewing h

> Yes it's fatter than those newfangled flat things, but it doesn't watch me watching it, it doesn't record my conversations, and it doesn't report my viewing habits back to the mother ship. One day it will fail and I'll be forced to get a new one. It's actually getting pretty difficult to buy a new "dumb" TV these days. The last TV I bought was in November 2014, it's a normal 50" Plasma screen TV with zero connected features. Some of my relatives liked the TV and asked me to find them one like it and I can't. Apparently TV makers have decided that making good TVs isn't important and packing them with smart features I don't want or need is the way to go.