And oh my god what a difference. Watched Fargo (1996) in 4k HDR on it and it blew me away how great it looked! I thought it would be a minor step up from an LED LCD but it was simply amazing.
Heads up too, if you’re casually in the market, I worked at Best buy for years and can say Superbowl is the best time to buy. People think it’s black Friday but that’s just when they hock cheap crap. Superbowl is when they actually mark down the quality tvs. Saved 600 bucks or so!
I mean, I just didn’t hook mine up to the internet?
Smart TVs use other open wifi to exfiltrate data from your home. Amazon has the “sidewalk” network through bluetooth, and Comcast, et-al has a public wifi network they’ve been sprawling about by using their customers APs without permission.
“Not connected to the internet” doesn’t save you. You don’t know what internet it’s connected to.
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/everything-you-need-to-know-about-amazon-sidewalk
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659191/amazon-sidewalk-network-coverage
They are building mass mesh networks, which will allow your devices to connect to any visible network in the area in order to pass your data along. People buying “Smart” TVs and thinking “not connecting it to the internet” is safe, is the problem.
“Oh I just won’t own one of those devices”…isn’t a valid argument either, because the network doesn’t give a shit if it’s your devices, your neighbors devices, so long as it can see something to communicate in the vicinity. All you need is someone around you to have connected theirs to the internet and woosh, there goes your privacy.
Holy fuck that’s insane. And should be illegal.