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No, not everyone owns smart TVs. I looked long and hard to find the best option for a dumb TV without Wi-Fi, without Alexa, without Siri, without any of that,
by paulrpotts 7y ago
No, not everyone owns smart TVs.
I looked long and hard to find the best option for a dumb TV without Wi-Fi, without Alexa, without Siri, without any of that, because I don't actually want to stream anything to it and I don't want my television to be a hackable portal between my home and family and any hacker able to exploit bad firmware. No regrets.
- troydavis 7y agoWhich model did you choose? I looked for a large, modern (4K, HDR) dumb TV and couldn’t find one. I’d pay a premium for this, or at least for a device that considers “dumb mode” a first-class use case. In addition to trusting Apple (Apple TV) more than any TV or TV OS maker, models and firmware seems to be abandoned quickly. I’d rather decouple the UI upgrade cycle from the hardware upgrade cycle. Roku seems to support devices longer than the other TV OS makers, but they have “features” that I’d pay to not have (like ACR and https://support.roku.com/article/360021142813 https://support.roku.com/article/360021142813).