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After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They already do, vizio sets and roku TV sets require an internet connection as soon as you power it on to set it up

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

roku because you 'need' an account to use (try here for one without a payment method requirement).

vizio must be a new thing for the current models. mine (bought last year, and was "last year's" model then) didn't need a net connection to set up for using as a 'monitor'.