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Weary of things of no interest popping up on your computer screen or new apps forcing themselves onto your tablet or smart phone?  It's happening on TV sets now too.  Is there no escape for any of us from the monetizing of user data?

 

I pity the millennials who have never known something that just turns on and works the way it's supposed to.

Your TV Is Now a Computer, but Not in a Good Way

You don’t really own it, and it breaks in unpredictable ways.
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If that happened to me, I'd take the bloody thing back to the retailer, citing Sale of Goods Act and Trading Standards - and demand a refund. The goods not being fit for the purpose on which they were sold. I once had to do that with a PVR (a dumb model) which would not properly work; and before that, a VCR allegedly with 'Startext PDC' which was thoroughly unreliable (yet a different brand of VCR with PDC worked absolutely fine!).

The retailer is responsible for selling goods which are clearly not of merchantable quality. Samsung would have the problem fixed pretty quickly when they get an influx of returned sets and cancelled shop orders.

I've had a couple of the so-called 'smart' internet enabled set-top boxes, one a terrestrial (through the aerial) PVR recorder; the other a bluray player with internet access. Both have had issues - freezing, locking up. Eventually certain apps no longer get supported. It's completely pointless when the goalposts continually get shifted.
 
I have a new HDTV 4K whatever dang thing it is.....

seems at least once a week, it ask to do an update for some damn thing or other

updates = screw up your system, play hell getting it to work right after that....that's why I say 'NO' every time it ask....

I just seen the other day, I can purchase a VCR/DVD recorder, 'without' a tuner....made sense, whats the point, I have to use a 'box' to change all my channels anyway.....

why aren't TV's sold without tuners?....see no point in them, it's no matter if you have cable, dish, satellite...that is your tuner....

all I need is a monitor!
 
Re: Tuner

The tuner is still used for receiving over the air ATSC broadcasts, and where open QAM is available through the local cable company.

The issue are all of these "smart" sets that also try to be an internet streaming service box, too.

Nevertheless, I'll keep my '64 RCA CTC-16 color set.
 
 
My 2002 Panasonic plasma panel is only a monitor ... no tuner or speakers.

I have a circa 2009 Samsung Blu-ray player that initially had onboard streaming apps for Blockbuster, Netflix, Pandora, and YouTube.  One of the firmware updates eliminated Blockbuster.  YouTube no longer works due to a change in their network and security protocols.  I haven't tried Pandora on it in years, did a few mins ago, doesn't work.  Netflix still works, I use it often for that.  It's long outdated for updates, last was in 2012, so unlikely it'll get taken over by rogue apps.

A potential issue with the Panasonic is that it doesn't have an HDMI input and DVD players nowadays apparently don't have component video outputs so I'd have to find a converter.
 

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