I just spent an hour trying to figure out why my smart tv is not routing audio to my external speakers, why there's an audio lag on ALL videos and apps, why the fire cube tv is non-responsive, when all I had to do was unplug and plug the TV back in.

Modern TVs are great, but please just make this a more polished product FFS

KDE-bigscreen shall be our savoiur

I bought the last plasma LG ever made which has no smart features. Best purchase ever.

I will never in my life need a tv connected to the internet.

If this thing dies on me am i screwed? It's been a long time since I tooked at the tv market.

Sounds like the GoogleTV UI. Roku is better with not pushing your apps around.

The webOS on my LG isn’t bad per se, but it’s worse than using the Apple TV hooked up to it. I’ve personally found that a box of some sort plugged into the TV well slays offer a better experience.

I just occasionally plug my TV into Ethernet overnight to slow it to pull updates. No WiFi.

Buy a sceptre 4K screen .. no smart features at all. Hook up whatever device you want, computer, Roku, Apple TV, pi running Kodi ..

I love my pihole...

I never experience any of this..

Guys, I think this is missing a "/s" . Not sure though...

Mmmm, I love that my tv's remote constantly listens to my conversations and sends recordings back to the maker all under the guise of "improving voice control".

I have my TV offline, connected to my Xbox, with HDMI-CEC enabled.

When I turn on the Xbox, it automatically turns the TV on, which goes to my last used input (the Xbox). From there I can launch whatever streaming apps I want.

I know I have to deal with Microsoft's nonsense too, but at least the performance is good and it shows the most recent app at the top of my home page.

What kind of shitty brand are people buying that have this issue?

None of what he's complaining about has ever happened to me. And the few things that are real, are options that you can disable in two seconds.

It reminds me of when someone posted an article about how Sony has an "ad bar" at the bottom of the screen...

To get the screenshot the author had pressed the input button so that all the installed apps showed up on the bottom, and they acted like it was always there and couldn't be removed

thats why i got a regular flat screen that was on sale. sound system isnt too great, but it looks good! and its fucking enormous