Smart TVs are all well and good, but when ad-focused update lobotomized my new-ish Android TV, we hit a problem.

Smart TVs are all well and good, but when ad-focused update lobotomized my new-ish Android TV, we hit a problem.

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I was only using Roku for a long time. It has ads but they’re not particularly intrusive and I honestly don’t notice them half the time. I recently got a new Amazon Fire TV for free through my jobs reward program and that thing is just a big ad delivery machine lol. The OS is so slow it’s like it was almost an afterthought when someone realized they actually needed a way to show all these freaking ads… Its so slow and buggy it drives me nuts! I’m seriously considering just plugging a Roku box in the back and just using the TV like a monitor

      • glimse@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        I am not an Apple guy but AppleTV is the best “out of the box” streaming device on the market and it’s not even close. Really the only thing I have against it is that Apple changed IP control to require HomeKit.

        For us nerds, an HTPC is hard to beat…but for everyone else, I recommend an AppleTV.

      • accideath@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Absolutely. 4 or 5 years ago I got myself the current firetv stick 4K because my tv had an absolutely terrible smart tv platform (slow, almost no recognizable apps). After a month or so, I sold it to a friend, bought an AppleTV and never looked back.

  • accideath@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I never regretted the 200€ I paid for an appleTV 4K. No ads, no nonsense, just a smooth and pleasant smart tv experience. Even got almost all the features I was missing compared to android tv through updates over the 4½ years I’ve had it (like vpn support). Whichever brand I‘ll be getting, when I eventually upgrade my tv, I‘ll never connect it to the internet and just continue using my AppleTV.

      • cybersandwich@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        I think he’s saying he doesn’t connect the smart TV to the internet. He plugs in his apple TV (and that is connected to the Internet) and has all of the ‘smart’ technology.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Sceptre makes a good dumb TV. I use one personally and other than taking a few extra seconds to boot up, it’s fantastic. No WiFi info to load, no pop ups, just a big dumb pane of LEDs and ports to use them.

      • accideath@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        VA has gotten really good over the years and I‘d prefer it over a similarly priced IPS, if neither has local dimming or quantum dots or something like that. VA has so much better contrast. Of course, it’s nothing against OLED, QLED, microLED, etc but it’s also in a very different price class.