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Took a while but I found a decent dumb tv to buy. It’s working well for me but some folks have said the lifespan isn’t super long since it’s an off brand with a four star build quality. But the damn thing turns on in under five seconds and the picture quality is great.
I did the same thing a couple of years ago. Both of my older dumb TV's bought the big one within weeks of each other. So I searched and found 2 new dumb TV's.
We rarely use them for anything other than casting from the unofficial streaming sites. When my inlaws visit they watch broadcast TV on them.
My teens use their phones or computers.
This is why I want to piece together a oled from components, so I can have the screen but use monitor parts and it will never be smart
Amen, brotha.
Ahh, capitalism. Serving up the greatest innovations of our time! ... Innovations protecting capital...
I seriously don't know how morons think it's the source of the good parts when the internet was invented by and is managed by the principles of Communism. Government-made but NOT charged for, managed largely by the engineers who have the talent and knowhow (all of the bodies working on specifications like HTTP, TLS, HTML, JavaScript, etc)...
If all of the tech worked off of the principles of Capitalism, every single person who's contributed would want to charge for their work and the licensimg just to launch a static website would require a fcking army of beurocrats to sort.
Then there'd be "innovation" from accounting firms to make it a one-stop "solution" to the problem by charging everyone to deal with it. Then the lobbyists would petition Congress to make you HAVE to use those services, and suddenly, the politicians think they've solved the problem when all they've done is institutionalize the cost.
and that's the power of Capitalism mixed in with the government!
No Vizio or Samsung.
I got a Sony and I'm glad I did. It seems to do what a smart TV should do. The apps I use are first, the shows I'm watching are suggested. It works seamlessly over HDMI with all my other hardware (sound bar, Blu-ray, consoles). They took the beautiful LG OLED display and made it look even better. It has a super minimalistic style, the android OS is unobtrusive, and the remote feels nice in the hand.
Sony software stacks are always clean and minimal but i still want a dump TV
I would honestly love to try switching to an alternative than continue using Fire OS on my Insignia TV, but I don't know of any good alternatives. Maybe I just haven't dug deep enough, but most "3rd party" (not Amazon or Google) Android implementations seem to only support phones, not TVs.
Fortunately, Fire TV can still install apps from outside their app store (like SmartTubeNext), but that can only do so much.
Ok Amazon
I'm... literally saying I'd love to try anything other than Amazon's Fire OS.
I would honestly love to try switching to an alternative than continue using Fire OS on my Insignia TV