How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features - Consumer Reports
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TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every other big brand.

The link has a ton of information.

Under Privacy Settings, there are options for Device Usage Data, Collect App and Over-the-Air Usage, and Interest-Based Ads. All are enabled by default, but you can disable them.

  • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    I’ve been rocking a 46 inch Sony xbr 1080p tv for like 22 years. It just broke last week :(

    That thing was awesome. It had nine types of inputs, DisplayPort, hdmi, super video, dvi, rca. It even had optical audio in and out. It was a $10,000 tv when it came out and I watched it for a while until it was something like $3300 and I bought it.

    I replaced it with a 55inch Samsung for $300. The picture is 22years better :) but the rest of it is throw away junk. It will never get connected to the internet and it will never get a software update. I think this is the logical conclusion to cheap tvs, they just become 100% enshittified.

    • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      Is the picture really better though? All the new stuff has image processing crap due to refresh rate mismatches and loads of older content never got a HD release, let alone 4k. I’m never gonna stop watching stuff like Star Trek, and voyager looks like dogshit given it never got a release beyond DVD because of how they did the editing.

      Don’t get me wrong, I know you can modify all kinds of settings to minimize the impact of the image processing. Turning off the processing gives you a ton of problems, and enabling the processing can work in some media but doesn’t work quite right in others.

      With my home setup the difference between plex, netflix and other streaming services can be pretty big depending on the formats supported by the specific show even. It’s all a mess and if you want it to be right odds are you need to really mess with it and even then you only have so many options. Getting a new TV has not been as positive as I hoped for, but i’ve gotten used to it and just accept that some things look kinda garbage because tweaking one thing often makes one show better, but others might not be as good as a result.

    • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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      22 hours ago

      You should maybe connect it once for update. At least check firmware update changelogs to see if anything is relevant.

      I have an LG and experienced a weird picture problem for over a year… it was infuriating. Firmware update fixed it.