There's hope for privacy yet
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Neither are all but the cheapest smart TVs.
It's called double and triple dipping. Every single company that can get away with double, triple, quadruple dipping can and does.
Buying the initial product + Subscription + selling your data + dropping support to force you to buy a new product is quite commonplace. The old mantra of "if you are not paying, you are the product" doesn't apply anymore because most companies do both.
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Often it will yell at you every day and be very intrusive, not actually disconnect from the internet and force join any old WiFi connections/any non-password protected ones, or simply refuse to work unless you connect them (I think some people were saying newer Samsung TVs do that)
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It's exactly what I got: it has the telltale PCMCIA connector on the side and a store mode in the menu.
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Now I'm picturing the TV sounding like Marge Simpson's sisters.
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If they can make money off you, they will.
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Yes, or "commercial TV", which should include a TV tuner built-in. For the US, here are some examples of 4K commercial TVs for under $1,000:
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I got a Sharp Android smart tv last year when my 2006 Samsung died and it works great without internet access. Cheapest one there was.
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Hit up thrift stores they always have a pile in decent shape. Just test them at an outlet
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Many smart TVs still give you popups telling you to connect to the internet or they simply refuse work without connection. There's not a very good way to tell if any smart TV you get will do this ahead of time without looking over reviews, and even then many people just connect their TVs anyway so it might not show up there either.
I'd prefer to just have a display that works as a display from the start and not have to worry about it.
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Must be a good store if you stay there half the year
