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.
We dropped Directv this month after over 20yrs of never ending price increases. I have a 7 yr old 50 inch dumb tv and bought a Roku unit at Walmart for $30 plugged it into a tv HDMI port and synced it up with our wifi and now with Philo for live tv which includes a dvr type setup, Discovery+ and Pluto my bills gone down to about $38 a month. I downloaded the local tv stations apps and can watch the local news only for free if I need to see the news.
“I really need a sign on my computer desk that says “Tech Customer Support”.”
Lol. There’s an easy way to eliminate that, if you’re game.
But you have to be willing to make yourself look bad in that respect.
Tech Support is an easy job. All you do is ask, “Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
Great recommendations here on using YouTube to see if there’s a setting you can change. If you do decide to replace, I picked up a Samsung 70” OLED smart tv from Best Buy about 3 months ago. Reliable brand, great picture, integrates with my sound bar, has a menu of free channels, and has Apps for YouTube, Netflix, Prime (and more) so you may not need to use a separate streaming box (Roku). It was about $1,100. There’s a non OLED version that’s a less expensive, but for a nickel more..
I think you might be asking the wrong question.
Q. Why Do Ads Keep Popping Up on My Home Screen?
If ads are popping up on your home screen then it means that your TV manufacturer has internally provided system permission to a few intrusive apps to draw over other apps. In this scenario, you can sideload Popup Ad Detector (Free) to find those offending apps. And then you can proceed to uninstall them from Settings -> Apps -> See All Apps.
Happy with Samsung, no cable just streaming.
Weird. “Smart” TVs for retarded liberal programming. I LOVE THIS COUNTRY!
I dropped cable a while back just because it was a waste of money to watch three of four channels.
Streaming is so much better and I can still watch local channels with the $20 antenna I got at CVS.
No need to pay all that cable money anymore.
Yes, yes it is. LOL. I withdrew from IT to keep my sanity, yet I keep all pertinent skills honed and have my resources.
But a shrewd operator knows how to ‘clip’ those who abuse it.
Case in point: This thread.
i.e., “I’ll have to research that, and will get back to you.”
I believe the cliche’ term for it was “Japanese inspection” (Days of Thunder?).
Your own virtue signaling over perceived virtue signalers, no doubt.
I have always bought Sony or Sharp for their display quality, my 60” Sharp is 15 yrs old and still not a bad pixel. I recently bought a 42” hisense 4k which is made in the sharps factory or sharp is now made in the hisense factory. I use Fire sticks on all my tvs and use the 4k stick on the new hisense. Here’s a good tip for everyone. I use a yellow switching internet cable and a second router attached to my first router. This gives me a second set of 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands available. I assign the second 5 ghz bands to my 4k tv and the 2nd 2.4ghz to my older tv’s ( 2 of them) That leaves the original 5ghz band for my computers ( 2 desktops, 1 laptop) and phones. I use the first 2.4 ghz for band for tablets, which I mainly read on. Nothing ever gets a choked bandwidth. Even when I download large files. My internet speed is 300mbs which works for me as I am not an online gamer.
Just bought a 65 inch Samsung ( Black Friday deal ) after my 42 in Sony Bravia gave up after 20 years. Got a ROKU box and tons of channels. Samsung even has a car crash channel.
You need a dumb TV with an HTPC - Home Theater Personal Computer aka Media Center using Open Source software.
I’ve been researching it for some time and keep coming back to using a Raspberry Pi with RaspberryOS.
Software:
Web Browser (most free streaming services have a web app)
KODI (media library and player - has some streaming apps - PlutoTV, NASA TV)
VLC (general media player)
I ran across an OS that will run both Linux and Android apps but it’s from a Chinese outfit so I don’t trust it.
You could get an Nvidia Shield TV but they run Android TV which is google and has a home screen that advertises streaming services you can install.
ROKU is fairly popular and they have their own free stream now but they have a home screen like the nVidia.
In any case, my preference is to have the software in a box, not inside my TV.
For the non tinkerer, instead of a Raspberry Pi, you could get a ChromeBox which is a small form factor PC that runs Chrome OS and allows installing Google Play Store apps but also has a web browser, Chrome of course.
You get a desktop experience while having access to streaming apps and/or the web versions like Hulu.com, Pluto.TV, spotify, youtube/rumble/bitchute/peertube etc.
Here’s ASUS’ offering; https://www.asus.com/displays-desktops/mini-pcs/chrome-os-devices/asus-chromebox-4/
Don’t get Visio.
I bought a 55” TCL Roku TV about three years ago from Best Buy. It has been very good except the remote that came with it stinks. I bought two universal remotes for it.
Why buy a new TV? You can have ours for free. Its sitting on the floor in the corner of our living room for the past 4 years. Come and get it. 😉
That right there is funny.
I don’t care who you are.
😄
That right there is funny.
I don’t care who you are.
😄
I have one in my arsenal, it's gotta be 12-15 years old and still works great.
Stay away from Samsung. I had a 50” 4K UHD and it crapped out in two years, no warranty.
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