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Is that even possible anymore? About 2-3 years ago it seems like "smart" TVs completely took over.

• cletus 9y ago
  I bought a Samsung 65" 1080p "Smart" TV 2.5 years ago where that seems possible.
  • scrooched_moose 9y ago
    Oh, gotcha, I misread your original post. I thought you were talking about truly "dumb" TVs. Non-smart TVs basically don't exist anymore (Sceptre is the only brand I can find). You can usually get a smart TV and keep it off the internet, but I've seen horror stories of some TVs not working at all until being "updated" after unboxing.
    • sitkack 9y ago
      We need a law that requires things work out of the box and can work while not connected to the net. Bonus points for requiring off switches for the "smart" features. A similar pet peeve of mine is that the huge infotainment screens on modern cars cannot be turned off the majority of the time. Only in the VW Golf I rented did it actually have a way to shut the whole thing down.