Posted on 02/23/2023 3:38:01 AM PST by LouAvul
Mine is a Sony Bravia. When it turns on, it's got programmed advertisements for the "cause-du-jour" at the top of the screen.
Currently, since this is black month, there's a picture of a domestic terrorist named angela davis in the 60s, running her mouth. And it's A. Big. Mouth.
I want a smart tv that doesn't have all that nonsense and propaganda on the opening screen. It's bad enough that Amazon Prime constantly pimps those liberal causes (black month; homo pride; etc), but I'd like to not have it on the opening screen.
What on earth for? There is nothing worth watching from any source.
Do you actually know anything about Netflix and Hulu?
For anyone who is looking for a smart TV (Sony, LG, Samsung), when you go to the store, DON’T look at the picture (they are, effectively, the same). DON’T listen to the sound from the TV (You’re getting a soundbar, at least).
But pay close attention to the OS. The first time I saw the Sony splash screen, with the ads taking up 2/3 of the screen, I decided I could never live with that, no matter how good the rest of Sony was.
Odd that you took my post so personally..... but, whatever floats yer boat.
Really haven’t kept up with TV tech.
We don’t have access to cable and broadcast is too difficult to bother with out here in the sticks.
But we do watch a lot on our laptops.
I don’t know if this is a solution, but is it possible to disassociate the smart from the TV? In other words, is there a smart TV device that you can put before the TV and set the TV into something like monitor mode? Presumably a smart TV device would be more amenable to customization. Maybe such thing doesn’t exist...
As someone who has spent his career in IT, one of the things I’ve learned to lean towards is keeping components of various functions separate and avoiding those that combine functions. The classic is the combined printer/scanner/fax where one malfunction takes down three of your devices. But I also apply it to keeping the router separate from the wireless access point, for example.
Don’t know if this is any help — if not disregard. I haven’t had my coffee yet this morning...
Gee, bert, maybe I do, maybe I don’t. I subscribe to Netflix through a Roku device, not a Sony Bravia Smart TV, so I cannot speak to the actual behavior of those apps on a Smart TV.
Apparently you and your wiseass mouth can.
Better yet, get a Roku box instead of android box to keep from being so wed to Google. And it doesn't matter if the tv is smart or not (it might be hard to find a high resolution tv without the smarts).
My TV is a smart TV, but I never see its startup screen. That's because I start my TV viewing by pressing the Home button on my Roku remote, never having to press the power button for the TV. When the TV picks up a signal from that HDMI port, it automatically turns on and goes straight to that port (bypassing the tv's "home" screen). So the first few seconds of my TV viewing experience is black screen then straight to Roku channel selection screen.
Then there's the fact that the various apps on the Roku device upgrade easier than the related apps on a TV. For example, I pay for the Paramount+ (CBS) during football season to watch SEC games because I live in an area where even HD antennae signals are bad. During football season I catch up on old NCIS and Blue Bloods episodes, then discontinue my membership after college football season ends (unless my alma matter is doing unusually good in basketball season LOL). When the football season begins again in the fall and I launch the Paramount+ app for the first time in over half a year. At that point the app updates. Over the years, the few times it was unable to update (because my Roku device was too old) I replaced my Roku device without having to buy a TV (because it doesn't matter that the TV is old because the TV isn't what's running the app).
Since you so bravely omitted to respond to anyone individually.
Lots of apps now using the screen for ads - my ROKU TV will actually “screensaver” to ROKU ads and if you push the wrong button, instead of going back to the app I was on, it will go straight to a show that ROKU is advertising.
Good luck - “Smart” means “more connected” which means more visual trash...
I have a Samsung OLED TV. Great picture! However, beware their remote/TV doesn’t support the last channel feature. So, you can’t go back to the last channel you were watching easily and flip between two channels.
Why do they call them “Smart TVs” when everything on them these days is so stupid?
In America, Television Watches You!
Black history month ends next week, so that stuff should slow down. Then it’s Asian Gay Fishermen month. So…we have that going for us.
My Samsung doesn’t advertise too much. At least not a lot that I pay attention to.
Best Buy has great deals on TV’s and the prices have come down considerably over the last couple of years.
P.S. if you live in an area as I do where power outages are frequent… unplug your TV’s after power goes out. Once power is restored. Plug back in. Have had to replace a few as the power surge burns out the LED’s !
Good luck.
Wasn’t meant for any single individual FReeper
Just a statement as to why I was reading the thread.
Had no desire to single out anyone in particular, so I didn’t.
Acorn, Britbox
get the stupidest TV you can find that has the best picture (basically a monitor) that has lots of HDMI ports ... add to that a ROKU box for streaming, and an A/V sound system for sound and switching input sources to the monitor and speakers ... the TV monitor is just the device for the display in such a system ...
it’s not really a good idea to put all your A/V eggs in a single basket ... you get stuck with a fixed set of aging technology in one box and have no ability to upgrade any specific part of the overall system as technology in the various areas advances ...
“smart” TVs are a scam: they include microphones and cameras that have been known to spy on you, and the manufacturers insist on your “smart” TV hooking up to THEIR websites and servers and are constantly sending annoying messages to you ...
“smart” TVs are like self-driving cars, trying to take over functions best controlled by yourself rather than controlled by your machines themselves ... “smart” anything means that they are in control, not you ...
As the late Gallagher put it, “There’s a knob on your TV that says, ‘Brightness’, but it doesn’t work!”
How new is your LG? My Sony plasma is going on >12 years and regrettably going bad right in the center of the display. I hope it doesn’t worsen through the end of the year.
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