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Has anyone else here never actually bought a TV? I've been given 3 perfectly good TVs that relatives were gonna throw out when they upgraded to smart TVs. I love my dumb, free TVs. They do exactly what I need them to and nothing more. I'm going to be really sad when they kick the bucket.
I've been using the same two TVs since 2008 and I have zero desire to upgrade.
I was a given free, very decent, dumb tv and upgraded it to a smart tv with a $5 steam link and ran a cat 6 cable to it from my router. Best $5 ever. Have no intention of buying a new one. If I ever do, I will try my hardest to make sure if it's a dumb one. I know they sell "commercial displays" that are basically a tv with no thrid party apps or a way to install them.
Any TV is a dumb TV if you plug a Kodi box in the HDMI and never use the smart trash.
I set up a tv for my mother in law. No joke had to register with an email before it would let me switch to HDMI.
Did it also ask to register if it didn't have internet?
Yeah required me to put it online before giving me control of the video sources.
Legit that should be illegal
That's terrible. And good to know how low they've sunk.
Yes, people like me buy TVs. I'm the guy who keeps giving away perfectly good TVs to other people because I've bought a new one and don't want to store the old one. I've given away 2 smart TVs so far, though I'm not sure what I'll do with my current one when I inevitably upgrade.
I've bought my TVs because all my relatives are the same as us. My mom finally tossed an old CRT TV a couple of years ago because it started having issues displaying colours correctly.
I used my family's first HDTV from 2008 up until last year, when my family got me a 55" 4k TV for like $250. Not gonna lie, it's pretty nice having so much screen, but I'm never getting rid of the ol' Sanyo.
One of my TVs was given to us by my mother-in-law, but we did buy the other one. Before the 'smart' TV era though.