[beastman82]

Buy an Nvidia shield and never look back

[pier25]

Have they finally fixed the frame rate matching issues?

[burnt-resistor]

And disable the telemetry and ads services.

[dylan604]

And you connect that to what?

[m4tthumphrey]

An airgapped TV I expect.

[dylan604]

That's the point though. TVs like from TFA are preventing use when air gapped. As more manufacturers go this route, there will be fewer tvs that will allow that to work

[unethical_ban]

Are they?

I skimmed TFA and what I consider "Smart TV features" are the things the Shield does: Apps, streaming, etc.

I see no indication that picture settings or HDMI features are disabled without an account.

I have a Samsung TV that is "smart" but I use a Shield and never touch my TV remote unless I need to adjust a picture setting.