My TV's getting on a decade old. It's getting bad burn in around the corners. It's time is coming, and I'm prepared to replace it. In an ideal world I'd get a 4K HDR TV with OLED. Is it possible to get a high quality TV that doesn't have smart features? They're completely redundant for me so I'd hope that I could save money that way.

    • fairport [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      You could just not connect it to wifi/ethernet/internet.

      A TV with 5g would still need you to buy a phone plan and a SIM card so you could just not do that.

        • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          From what I know, they're not really doing the 5g stuff yet. Once they do, there's a decent chance you could actually remove the sim card, if you can get to it.

          They might just program the shits to shut down without a sim - at which point you'd need some homebrew firmware...

          Someone will probably figure it out, maybe. In general though, I think it's wise to hold on to dumb devices as long as possible

        • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          As long as they still connect via wifi, that's probably working.

          If they ever move to mobile network, that won't work (unless you somehow manage to spoof a 5g antenna, which... is probably possible but also highly illegal I reckon)