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I don't understand why anyone uses one of these,when you can stream anything you want for free on your computer in your web browser.
Is this sarcasm, or do you genuinely not understand watching TV?
Anything you would watch on tv is available free on the internet. No subscriptions, even Netflix. I"m not being sarcastic. Hang your f'ing monitor on the wall, then. That's all that makes this "tv" different. Well, and its advertisements.
I don't know why anyone wants to connect their TV to the Internet...
To watch things? To stream music? Game streaming? To avoid the additional expense, cable clutter, and additional remotes of android TV boxes (which also contain ads out of the box anyway)?
Honestly what kind of question is this lol. It's pretty obvious why people connect their TVs to the internet.
Use a media extender.... they're like $20.
Try finding a dumb tv for sale of relevant size and quality. I know you don't have to connect it to wifi... Usually. But I just want a TV that doesn't have all this shit in it to begin with.
O I'm not saying it's easy. Just don't connect it. I've got tvs with all that crap but they're connected to my media extenders that I can control, vs a TV that for w/e fucking reason needs updates.