• DragonAce@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Yeah I see people bitching about their TV showing ads on menus and I’m wondering why the hell anyone would hook a smart TV to the internet in the first place.

    • TheOakTree@lemmy.zip
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      26 days ago

      Well I do know some of them won’t work until you set them up with an account, i.e. the cheaper Roku TVs. That being said, I’d disconnect it right after.

    • jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org
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      24 days ago

      Because that’s how you get access to most of the functionality people would want a smart TV for.

      Sure you can just hook it up to cable and a blu ray player but most people want a smart TV to stream from Hulu or other services.

      You can set up a local service to stream video from your own media server, but that’s beyond most users technically