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Pretty cool article and highlights the problem of Smart TVs well. I don't think I'll ever get a smart TV but I'm privileged in this because my husband is fine w

Pretty cool article and highlights the problem of Smart TVs well. I don't think I'll ever get a smart TV but I'm privileged in this because my husband is fine with watching movies on a PC monitor and we don't plan to have kids so it's not like we'll have someone in the house clamoring for Disney+ on a separate big screen. Most households cave eventually because, admittedly, it's sweet to get a huge screen with excellent picture quality for just a few hundred. My one gripe with the article itself is the introduction: "I’ve noticed something exciting but sort of crazy". Claiming that TV prices dropping fast is 'crazy' seems a bit funny. Prices drop for a lot of stuff though, I suppose, some technology does stay in the same relative range. But it's probably only until it reaches a certain quality point past which there's not much to entice customers into high-end purchases.

eikenberry 7y ago
You can get a smart TV and just not connect it to the internet. Even lobotomized like this, they still work fine as normal TVs. You can also get a smart device (Roku, Amazon Fire, etc.) and hook that up to any TV to stream things (including Disney+). You can also just hook that computer up and it would work as well (a TV is just a big monitor with sound). So there is no need to ever "cave", even if you want streaming on a big screen and don't want a smart TV.
- wmf 7y ago
  You can also get a smart device (Roku, Amazon Fire, etc.) and hook that up to any TV Why should that device have any less spying or ads?
  - SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
    Thanks, I was starting to think I was going crazy.
  - eikenberry 7y ago
    I was pointed out that they had options. Not what they should do to avoid spying.
- BelleOfTheBall 7y ago
  Well, I don't see much reason to get a smart TV if I won't be using it as a smart TV. Both people in the household are fine watching on a medium-sized screen, why spend $300-400 just to watch on a bigger one with no other benefits? Maybe once they become just ridiculously cheap, yeah.
tyingq 7y ago
So far, TCL has provided a way to turn off the internal Roku... https://support.tclusa.com/televisions-setup-configurations/189404-can-you-turn-off-the-roku-feature-and-use-it-as-a-regular-tv https://support.tclusa.com/televisions-setup-configurations/...

eikenberry 7y ago

You can get a smart TV and just not connect it to the internet. Even lobotomized like this, they still work fine as normal TVs. You can also get a smart device (Roku, Amazon Fire, etc.) and hook that up to any TV to stream things (including Disney+). You can also just hook that computer up and it would work as well (a TV is just a big monitor with sound). So there is no need to ever "cave", even if you want streaming on a big screen and don't want a smart TV.

wmf 7y ago
You can also get a smart device (Roku, Amazon Fire, etc.) and hook that up to any TV Why should that device have any less spying or ads?
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
  Thanks, I was starting to think I was going crazy.
- eikenberry 7y ago
  I was pointed out that they had options. Not what they should do to avoid spying.
BelleOfTheBall 7y ago
Well, I don't see much reason to get a smart TV if I won't be using it as a smart TV. Both people in the household are fine watching on a medium-sized screen, why spend $300-400 just to watch on a bigger one with no other benefits? Maybe once they become just ridiculously cheap, yeah.

tyingq 7y ago

So far, TCL has provided a way to turn off the internal Roku... https://support.tclusa.com/televisions-setup-configurations/189404-can-you-turn-off-the-roku-feature-and-use-it-as-a-regular-tv https://support.tclusa.com/televisions-setup-configurations/...