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I'm going to be in the market for a new tv in a few months.
Professionally, I have worked in the home electronics / automation industry for over 25 years. I haven't sold or installed a new TV in over five years. I am dreading the selection of a new TV. I was just thinking about this last night - I'm going to have to go to a store and have a sales person show me all the features I don't want on the TV to make a decision.
My understanding is that you can simply not connect the TV to the internet and this may prevent any issues. I strictly use an Apple TV so, if this is the case, are there any TVs that this is sure to be avoided? Are there some that prevent you from using it without a network connection?
The fact that I have to have this consideration over the purchase of a television is absolutely bonkers to me.
Just don't connect the TV to the internet at all. Get a device that plugs into the HDMI port and connect that.
Business TVs exist, but theyre way more expensive, have less features you want (colors, refresh rate, etc) and are hard to find and sort based on quality. I looked up TVs on rtings and grabbed the cheapest one that fit my feature needs. It has never been connected to the internet, and i even found a setting to skip the home screen entirely and open up the last used input instead. Most of the time my last input is a tiny linux box i got from vero.
It's absolutely possible. I have a 2021 Sony TV, a 2016 TCL and a 2021 TCL all hooked up to Apple TVs. I basically never see the actual TV interface on either one and none of them are connected to the Internet.