The left part of the screen of my parent’s Samsung TV have seriously blackened recently, so they are thinking of buying a new TV. We probably bought this like 6 years ago maybe, but I absolutely do NOT want to buy a Samsung again (6 years is just planned obsolescence reliability + their OS didn’t let me remove the bloatware in any way or shape of form)

Which brand has been the most reliable for you, and also have you been able to remove the bloatware from your TV via dev mode or with a different method?

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      I just replaced my ten year old Vizio …… with a Vizio. The old one still works great but I wanted the new features. I upgraded to OLED, higher resolution, higher refresh rate, better automation: 10 years worth of incremental improvements. Even the apps were still reasonably responsive.

      I used to care about reliability. I used to care about specs, but a dominating criteria now is how annoying the ads and and surveillance are. I don’t use the apps, but There’s not really any way to get away from it.

      I have an old Firestick that i stream from, so it’ll be a much better experience when I find something less shitty to replace that