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On 2018-08-23, J  Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 Aug 2018 21:21:56 GMT, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 19:19:54 +0000, Huge wrote:
>>
>>> On 2018-08-23, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
>>> 
>>> [28 lines snipped]
>>> 
>>>> 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
>
> I'm curious--what brand do you recommend these days?  The options seem
> to be a few Japanese companies, two Korean ones, and a bunch of
> off-brand.

We've been having good luck with LG (hmm, Lucky Goldstar... coincidence?).
No smart TVs, but we have a 42-incher in the den and a 60 in the living
room and they both have been working great for some time.  Oh, and then
there's my flip phone...

Too bad, I remember when Samsung's star was rising.  I was quite
impressed with them for a while...

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