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Television

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I'm not an advocate for smart TVs, but my experience has been different. I found a deal for an 86 inch LG, and it's been nothing but smooth for me. No advertising built into the os, always has the apps I use right on the bar. The air mouse onnthe remote is reminiscent of owning a wii.
- My LG TV on the other hand is crammed full of ads. I've blocked as much of them as I can but it looks like some of them are impossible to get rid of.
  The remote is really cool though, much better for typing.
  
  Which model? The only thing my LG has is a small 'suggested app' or something in the home menu... But there's never any need to open the home menu anyway
  
  I have a Nanocell. The ads in question are mostly on the Home screen but every once in a while I get a pop-up telling me to sign up to Paramount Plus or something like that.
  Turning off every ad setting I could find has helped a lot.
- My Smart TV is now blocked from the wifi, I use a Fire TV stick in the back of it now, it was just far too slow.
  Also I can bearly use the TV remote because it takes ages to wake up and reconnect to the TV.
  
  I was becoming frustrated with how slow my Vizio "Smart TV" had become. I went with a FireCube that was on sale. It was overkill but I don't want to deal with it slowing down again for awhile.
  I'm looking at getting back into a PC hooked up to my TV with the fragmentation of the streaming services. It's becoming as bad as cable again.
- I'm on my second TV of the Smart gen, one LG and one Samsung and haven't had any of these issues, I've found them snappy, the menus fully customisable and the updates not slowing them down.
- Same. Our OLED LG and roku TV have had no ads. While I have my old laptop connected to the LG anyway I don't actually need it, it's just for gaming and the browser.
  
  Depending on what you use it for, I actually found the built in browser to be rather useable
- I have a 10 year old LG whose smartness was left updated long ago and I love it.
- Because the vast majority of times people complain about this stuff, they have no idea what they're talking about.
  If you buy a nice TV and spend 2 seconds going thru the options you won't have a single issue OP is complaining about.
  Edit:
  Apparently OP banned me for saying their meme doesn't make sense...
  The only thing that a "cheap" TV would do is slow down overtime, because it's cheap and has the absolute bare minimum processing speed.
  You need that processing speed to properly up sample to 4k from streaming.
  If you want a cheap one, buy a decent 1080p so it doesn't have to upsample.
  Rtings.com is a good resource.
  But it should be common sense that buying a cheap product will give you poorer results.
  
  Why should you have to buy a nice TV for this issue to not be an issue? Why should shitty TVs have built-in advertising and glacially slow "smart" functions? Either don't include that as TV software or fix it.
  
  Capitalism baby!
  They want to make the same profit no matter the product you're buying. On nice TVs they make it by making more profits on the sale, on cheap TVs they make it by selling ads.
  The reason the cheap TV is cheap is also because it's using (even) older hardware so it's no wonder they're slow...
  
  The price of the TV is subsidized by the ads, promoted apps, and usage tracking. But usually poor hardware to keep the cost even lower. That’s why the models with Fire TV OS and similar ones are usually the cheapest.
  
  I don't buy it. Before "smart" TVs, you could get TVs just as cheap.
  
  TVs have improved in quality since smart TVs we’re introduced. However, it’s kind of like everything else. They have stopped producing the old dumb stuff.
  It’s another reason why I advocate that we should compensated anytime our personal information is used or harvested.
  
  Quality? Built in apps when a roku is 30 bucks? Is that whats so expensive?
  
  I couldn't get a TV anywhere near the size of the roku for the same price. 350 bucks for something 3x as large as a 400 dollar boob tube in 2002. Also it still has no ads.
  
  Because that's why the TV is cheap, as they make money back on serving you adds.
  
  unhelpful and rude comment. the only advice you have to offer is 'buy an expensive tv'. do you think people buy cheaper tvs out of ignorance?
  
  I know plenty of people who could afford a high end model but love a "bargain" and feeling like they got one over on the manufactures not realising they're playing right into the plan.
  
  Partially, yes they do.
  It's been years since the black Friday secret about TVs have been spread on the internet, yet people will still but them. A cheap TV with our without ads will suck because you get what you pay for.
  Also the meme is obviously overexaggerating because it's being memey. Most TVs don't restart on their own for example, or get slowed down by updates. If you have any specific examples please share and shame the models.
  
  Apparently OP banned me for saying their meme doesn’t make sense…
  I don't think OP can ban you, just block you. And considering in this comment you implied they are stupid, while in your other comment you implied they are straight up lying, it wouldn't surprise me.
  
  OP is a moderator. (Not the person being replied to, but the actual OP.)
  
  Interesting, not sure where to see that though. I checked the modlog, this person was not banned (from here).
  
  On my instance, at least, you can see an M badge next to OP's name under the post title.
  I checked the modlog for this particular community (just in case it didn't end up in the instance's general logs) and can confirm, this user was not banned.
  
  As a lowly kbin peasant this mis-feature hasn't reached me yet. No implicit argument to authority over here.
  
  The expensive TVs run the same software. Occasionally faster but equally ad filled.
  
  LG doesn't really have any ads
  
  The top 2/3 of the Home Screen is ads. A big Sponsored tile plus a row of “Top picks for you” which includes sponsored content.
  They also store your watch data.
  
  For me when I press home the top 2/3 is the show I'm watching, bottom is my row of apps. The only ads I see are 'recommended apps' filling the start of the LG content store which is the default tab. But then I just hit the search icon and can pick the app I want.
  Perhaps it's a different market with less consumer protection? I'm in the EU
  
  My grandparents have a cheap 2014 1080p LG LCD webOS TV that they never connected to the internet but it is and always was very slow, and the LED backlight became dull blue in places. Our dumb CCFL-backlit 2007 768p Sony Bravia has <100 ms response time in menus as opposed to 1~5 s, and is awesome with a Linux HTPC (which frankly should get an upgrade to an SSD but no big deal – I can still start streaming any major movie in <3 minutes).
  
  Andriod tv's take a long time to boot because they literally have to boot an operating system when they fire up, there's no way around that in any settings.
  That said, I don't have any of the other issues because my tv has never had net access and I have a pc with wireless keyboard/mouse hooked to it, and typing this while sitting on my couch.

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