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My LG TV would not let we watch until I updated my Terms of Service. The only option was to agree or not be able to use the TV I had already purchased and paid

My LG TV would not let we watch until I updated my Terms of Service. The only option was to agree or not be able to use the TV I had already purchased and paid for.

EricE 5y ago
Never connect it to the Internet. Just use a Roku instead of the horrible built in apps. Honestly I'm amazed that so many people actually connect their "smart" TVs to the Internet. No way in hell!
- obert 5y ago
  not everyone likes Roku interface, and not everyone wants to or can plug in something on the back of the tv
  - EricE 5y ago
    Then enjoy being tracked in increasingly unseemly ways. The current morass of advertising chicanery continues to exist because people are willing to trade away their privacy for convenience. If you know something sucks but continue to do it because it's convenient then it's beyond disingenuous to keep complaining about it. "Doctor it hurts when I do this" and all that :p
    - obert 5y ago
      you assume everyone, me included, is complaining, and that Roku doesn’t track either. That’s the same mentality that people had about Google in the early days. There’s a need for embedded solutions, better design, lower costs, etc.
- spookthesunset 5y ago
  The "smart" stuff on my Sony TV is pretty damn good actually. It has all the major streaming services I use and the remote isn't half bad. It's actually taken over most of the functionality we used the Apple TV for.
  - thiht 5y ago
    Really? I bought a high end Sony Bravia with Android TV and the experience honestly sucks. It’s slow as hell, the sounds are awful, Google pushed fucking ads to the home and the UI is really not very nice looking. There are lots of apps though which is cool.
    - spookthesunset 5y ago
      We probably have similar models. Honestly it is faster than some of the smart tv’s I have and the remote isn’t too shabby at all. We got the TV mainly because the picture quality was much better than the others they had at Costco.

My LG TV would not let we watch until I updated my Terms of Service. The only option was to agree or not be able to use the TV I had already purchased and paid for.

EricE 5y ago

Never connect it to the Internet. Just use a Roku instead of the horrible built in apps. Honestly I'm amazed that so many people actually connect their "smart" TVs to the Internet. No way in hell!

obert 5y ago
not everyone likes Roku interface, and not everyone wants to or can plug in something on the back of the tv
- EricE 5y ago
  Then enjoy being tracked in increasingly unseemly ways. The current morass of advertising chicanery continues to exist because people are willing to trade away their privacy for convenience. If you know something sucks but continue to do it because it's convenient then it's beyond disingenuous to keep complaining about it. "Doctor it hurts when I do this" and all that :p
  - obert 5y ago
    you assume everyone, me included, is complaining, and that Roku doesn’t track either. That’s the same mentality that people had about Google in the early days. There’s a need for embedded solutions, better design, lower costs, etc.
spookthesunset 5y ago
The "smart" stuff on my Sony TV is pretty damn good actually. It has all the major streaming services I use and the remote isn't half bad. It's actually taken over most of the functionality we used the Apple TV for.
- thiht 5y ago
  Really? I bought a high end Sony Bravia with Android TV and the experience honestly sucks. It’s slow as hell, the sounds are awful, Google pushed fucking ads to the home and the UI is really not very nice looking. There are lots of apps though which is cool.
  - spookthesunset 5y ago
    We probably have similar models. Honestly it is faster than some of the smart tv’s I have and the remote isn’t too shabby at all. We got the TV mainly because the picture quality was much better than the others they had at Costco.