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by nerdjon 550 days ago
I have heard that there are apparently some TV's that won't let you use them without connecting them to the internet. But yeah, as long as thats possible than its fine.

But if I am always put into their home system, or some other crap I don't want to interact with even if I am offline. Or I get regularly prompted to connect. It is going to be very frustrating and I am honestly not sure what I will do.

Thankfully it wouldn't be too hard to get around the auto start on the same HDMI with a harmony remote or something with a hub to automatically switch it. Annoying, but fixable as long as it doesn't put up a box prompting you every time to connect.

I have a Vizio tv from 2019, been looking at getting a new tv. and I am honestly starting to wonder if I have just been living in bliss that I can ignore its OS completely past my initial configuration.