Dumb TVs, its either 1.5k plus or you will literally never find one. I don't wanna be profiled or have some stupid android is on it. All it needs to do is display images on screen.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you never connect it to the internet.... It stays dumb.

[–] agoramachina@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not necessarily, I've seen "smart" tvs that require internet to have any level of functionality :(

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I would imagine a lot of those get returned, because 10-20% (estimates vary widely) of US households don't have Internet.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

A lot of them require internet for setup 🙃

[–] FlixusFlexus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Buy large Computer screens

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Nah, screw the smart or dumb labelling.

I just want TV's to be able to change channel within half a second. More and your product is trash

[–] nugohs@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah the smart ones are cheaper due to being subsidised by the sale of the data they can suck from them.

[–] sawdustprophet@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Dumb TVs, its either 1.5k plus or you will literally never find one.

I've read that the keyword here is "hospitality" TVs, because I guess they're not usually smart TVs. I haven't tried this myself, though.

[–] Nemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

You can get a 50" Hisense dumb TV for about $300 on Amazon. The picture isn't as good as some of the other brands, but it's still serviceable.