Some Rokus and Apple TVs receive longer update windows, though.
7 years of increasing amount of ads more like
There’s updates for tv’s? Never seen one.
My poor Smart TV thinks I don’t have an Internet connection.
My lg wants to update pretty much every week. Your a fucking TV and you work, why do you need to update at all?!
I mean, my TV got VRR thru an update…
Would have been great if it shipped with it, but being able to get the update is better than getting mailed a usb to do it manually.
eh…kinda. the upside to manual USB updates is you get to intentionally apply them and can decide not to if an update makes things worse like removing features or adding more ads and tracking.
with automatic updates they can just silently update without your consent
This whole removing features from a product that was where when I bought it is a concept that needs to die. I don’t care if you don’t want to support it anymore, I don’t care if literally nobody else uses it, hell I don’t even care if I don’t even use it, it was something I purchased that they’re taking away without consent or refund
I want a TV that is incapable of receiving updates please. Like it only does its job of selecting which inputs to display and displaying them.
They will release new bugs 7 years down the line, great.
nobody has answered this question on multiple fora for me: is it necessary to connect a smart tv to the internet?
can i keep it forever on “aeroplane mode” or whatever and use it as a dumb tv? can i never connect it to the internet if that’s what i want?
Generally not required, but some are starting to require at least one time connection during TV setup process to use it.
If you’re one of those customers who has to do this, connect it via ethernet, do the setup, then forever leave it disconnected. Never give it your wireless credentials. I personally wouldn’t trust the TV to forget the credentials and not phone home and make itself the ad machine the company wants it to be
If you don’t have this ability because the TV isn’t close to a router or if the manufacturers get so scummy that they no longer include Ethernet ports, you could accomplish this by setting up a “burner” hotspot on your phone and doing tethering. Change the name and password to something you’d never use and then let the TV connect to that and then change it to something else. TV may remember it but it won’t find that exact combo again unless you want it to :)
I keep seeing this posted but I have yet to see anyone mention which brands are actually doing this.
Because it’s not so much brand specific as it’s device specific. Companies are still testing the waters with adding this to their differently priced lineups to see what backlash they get from each group.
No. You can keep it offline as much as you want and use external sources to view on your TV. You do not have to use the operating system included.
You do not have to connect it to the internet to have your TV work.
If a tv requires me to sign up, it’s either getting returned or an axe through it.
