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Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] lemmyng@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You'd be better off buying a non-smart Samsung commercial TV from eBay and getting a $20 Onn 4K TV Box from Walmart. The latter can be Degoogled and sideloaded with Stremio, Cloudstream, or your streaming app of choice to make it the ultimate privacy-respecting media center.

[โ€“] sunnytimes@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago

side note . if you like stremio try nuvio . it works 10x better for me . looks like a fork.