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You know what would sell like hot cakes? A dumb TV with Dolby Vision support. I went down the rabbit hole of finding a large HDR monitor and adapters to trick end devices to output player-led Dolby Vision to a HDR monitors, because I don't need my TV to have a complete OS with streaming services and adverts integrated.
In the end I couldn't find anything that didn't have drawbacks. It's something that could easily exist but there are no manufacturers bold enough to implement it.
Streaming tech moves so fast, I want to add it to my TV through hardware like a fire stick, not to become dependent on the TV manufacturer putting out updates until it's 'Out-of-support'.
I went with a TV and disabled as much of the junk as I could with a service remote and just never connected it to the internet, but jumping through these hoops seems so silly.
So dont give your tv internet access and plug in a pc.
All tvs are dumb tvs if you don't connect them to the internet.
I get where your coming from, and I have done that, but I get constant popup reminders that "You are not connected to the internet, would you like to set this up now to access exciting apps and features?" And on top of that, I've had to switch to a universal remote, because the one that comes with the TV activates a cursor on screen when it senses movement which is a "feature" you can't switch off. I just want a remote with on/off, input, and volume control 😭
What brand tv is that? It sounds horrible lol. I haven't touched my TV remote in years since mine is controlled over cec with my Nvidia shield.
LG ☹️
I think high end smasnugs do that. But yeah same, I have a Chromecast and I just sling stuff to the TV. Its tuner hasn't been used in a decade.
Speaking of decade.... I should probably upgrade that thing. But it's big enough, dark enough (LDC, but at least not a crappy LCD), and high enough resolution for it's size and distance from my couch (1080, 50 inches, 10 or 15 feet) that I just can't justify replacing it. I wish it would die already lol.
Maybe if I move and get a big enough bedroom, I'll put it in there, and upgrade to something with HDR. I really wanna get in on some good HDR. Seems like it's getting really good and really affordable if you buy the right thing.
I have an LG 42" 4K OLED, but I miss my 42" 720p Panasonic plasma for it's simplicity. If it didn't decide to die, I'd have kept it. The colours on OLED are impressive on Dolby Vision content from my Google Streamer, I'll admit, but yea, I'm basically using my TV to display content from external hardware, the tuner, WiFi, Bluetooth etc will all be dormant it's entire life.