• a baby duck@lemmy.world
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        My TCL TV flashes a little ring light constantly if it doesn’t have an internet connection. The best part is the LED is part of the IR receiver, so if you cover it up your remote stops working. I’ve dimmed it as much as possible through the hidden service menus, but the option to remove it was apparently removed in a firmware update at some point.

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        I think I saw a review of the Amazon fire TV and they literally lock controls and tell you some basic af features are locked behind an Amazon account registration or login

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          I have an Amazon fire TV.

          It is not connected to anything, and everything works fine. I just hooked up my shield to it and use that, but basic tv functions (settings and whatnot) work just fine without being logged in.

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        10 hours ago

        Too much of a gamble. What if someone already did once and it uses the cached ads? What if they have some preloaded?

        Better financially support products that never have ads and that way demonstrate demand.

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          They put barely functional processors in these things. A new smart tv that isn’t connected to the internet is not going to come cached with ads.

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        From what I have heard, this is not true for all brands. Some won’t work without being connected. Shouldn’t be legal, but here we are.