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From: Bob Eager
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 21:21

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On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 19:19:54 +0000, Huge wrote:

> On 2018-08-23, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
> 
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>> My TV set broke down last week. I may want to replace it, but I don't
>> understand the feature set of the current models.  What's a "SmartTV"
> 
> A TV with a shitty web browser and a shitty media streamer built in.
> 
>> and do I want one?
> 
> No. Buy a "dumb" TV (if you can find one) and something like a Roku box,
> or buy a SMART TV and budget to buy a Roku when you discover just how
> crappy the "SMART" bit is. Oh, and firewall it off from your home
> network,
> consider firewalling it off from everything on the Internet other than
> content providers and fill the microphone (typically in the remote) with
> epoxy.
> 
> And under no circumstances buy a Samdung.

+1

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