The home page of my $1700 smart TV has a full page ad about watching ads
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Yeah. Yeah it is. I was in Times Square recently and had the thought that this was the glitzy permanent neon lighting to go with all the other stuff.
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Honestly not sure and the kids are firmly ensconced watching at the minute. I tried two or three, but it's the one with the "normal" Jellyfin icon. I tried infuse and another one, but this one was (for me) the best of the three.
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Personally, I don't have the energy to go to such lengths. My "good enough" has been using AdGaud Home as a network-wide DNS blocker and connect my smart TV to it. It's been great so far.
Plus, I get the bonus of seeing how much gets blocked.
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https://9to5google.com/2025/02/05/nvidia-shield-tv-9-2-update-changelog/
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Commercial displays might be the answer, all the smart bullshit goes against their use case so they need a way to go around it in case they still have it, and every brand have them.
Last time I looked into it they were more expensive and had to be bought through an agent but that was a few years ago, thing might have changed.
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Again, the brand I mentioned in the previous comment is a consumer-oriented one, that you can simply buy off Amazon etc., that still sells dumb TVs. I'd only suggest resorting to commercial displays if you're boycotting that brand for some reason.
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They don't seem to be available in Europe.
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Ah, that's unfortunate, and another good reason to consider resorting to a commercial display.
'Course, it's also possible that a commercial display is so much more expensive/a hassle that it might be worth figuring out how to buy a Sceptre TV in a country where it is sold and then importing it yourself.
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The funny thing is that I can find all sort of accessories for those TVs on Amazon but not the TVs.
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...Oh no. I just checked, and some of the TVs that did have Amazon listings as recently as a month or so ago (which I think was around the last time I mentioned this sort of thing) are no longer available, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Sceptre-U550CV-U-Ultra-2160p-60Hz/dp/B01CDC49E0
There are still a couple of "Komodo by Sceptre" TVs left, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Komodo-Sceptre-KU515R-Ultra-3840x2160/dp/B07W68VFGL , but that's it. I hope they aren't in the process of exiting the market entirely, but I'm worried!
