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TV that doesn't require 'on-line activation' to set up. (midwest.social)

submitted 2 days ago by catfishsushi@midwest.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I'm going to buy my first new TV in years. Even if it's a 'smart' tv we plan to just use our Roku. I've heard that some TVs require you to connect it to the internet before you can even use a Roku device. For privacy reasons I don't want my TV to EVER have access to my wifi. Is anyone aware of how to know what models/brands of TVs allow me to use it without ever connecting the TV itself to wifi?

If necessary I guess I could connect it to my guest network to 'activate' the TV, set up the Roku to connect to my private network, then change the password to the guest network.

Would rather just have a TV that doesn't even 'phone home' once.

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[–] thirteene@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Shield also refused to update mounting networking drives after Android 14 so they are pretty useless now

[–] UberMentch@lemmy.world -1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

How does that make them useless? They may not work for a use case where you're mounting network drives, but still work perfectly fine if you're using them to connect to a media server.

[–] thirteene@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Nvidia shield was known as king of media servers because it was able to be client and server. Now it's a running on a build from ~2015 that can no longer function as a server. Yes it's a client, but it's old and overpriced now with a bunch of additional Google shitware. If you have one use it, don't buy one.