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Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features (arstechnica.com)
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[–] tehbilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's still a great idea, the problem is good high definition high refresh rate panels without smart features are harder and harder to find

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree, but you can completely ignore the smart tv features and just use your hdmi pretty instead.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

But it's not that easy a lot of TVs will only boot into the smart TV (and that's already slow) and will only let you pick external inputs from there, often requiring to select it everytime!

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup I get it, on mine I can customize my buttons. I have a one push button for Plex

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I'm still on a dumb TV thankfully, but I'm starting to suffer, constrast is playful