we live in hell

I don’t even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they’re saying…hey do you want a worse experience?

  • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    563·
    11 months ago

    The SMART thing to do is to buy a DUMB TV. Pay a little more and get a real TV- you know. A display, with speakers and HDMI inputs. Nothing else.

    • Water1053@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      11 months ago

      Sometimes you have to be a bit more pragmatic. I’m not aware of any TV with HDR, Dolby Vision, OLED, etc. that isn’t smart and reasonably priced. Your best bet is to buy a smart TV and block Internet access.

      Another thing you can do is visit the selfhosted subs and they can help you out with other things like pihole for blocking ads and intrusive network activity on your home network.

      • corbin@infosec.pubEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        Yep, most of them won’t complain if you just never connect them to Wi-Fi during setup.

        • piecat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          There’s a pretty good chance they’ll get around it- if they aren’t already.

          Samsung TV? You have a Samsung phone? There’s an easy way to jump the air gap.

          Neighbor has a TV connected to the Internet? Send data to that TV and pretend you’re not connected to anything so the user doesn’t catch on.

        • TangledHyphae@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          I have never had any smart TV complain (yet) that I have never once connected wifi. I am guessing there would be lawsuits, that a physical device requiring internet and requiring you to connect it just to function, would get sued in a class action of some kind. I use other connection systems via HDMI to transcode media, and even people who still want TV do not need to connect the TV itself to wifi, since it should all come over through HDMI ideally (or DP or whatever cables it may be.)

    • chirospasm@lemmy.mlEnglish
      72·
      11 months ago

      This is what’s up. Buy a small Intel NUC, a USB-C combo Blueray & DVD player, and watch any service / play any content without the ridiculousness.

      Spectres are reasonable TVs. Screen tech hasn’t improved drastically for the last few years, and streaming quality hasn’t had any major facelifts outside the frameworks we know and love – don’t let anyone fool you otherwise. Netflix, Hulu, Prime, etc., all stream comparably to one another.

        • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          I’m particularly a huge fan of LG televisions. Of course that doesn’t help if you’re trying to avoid smart altogether.

          Also if you’re going LG… Their televisions are great but don’t touch their fucking home appliances. Ever. I don’t get the discrepancy between the two different parts of the same company. Beautiful televisions but things like they’re washers and dryers are notoriously horrible pieces of shit.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Scepters are horrendous pieces of shit.

        YMMV of course, but I’ve owned two Spectres. Rock solid, no problems. Decade later, they’re still going strong. /shrug

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Why the F does it require a captcha to go to an Amazon page? I have no idea what you are trying to show, because I’m not doing that.