Its an old LG, but given the recent light on the lengths they’ll go to spy on us, I figured this guy was better off without any ability to even connect wirelessly. Don’t know if the Ethernet still works but I plan on keeping my TVs as dumb as possible, HDMI only.
If you’re wondering how to open lg TVs you just have to remove all the screws then start pulling open at the bottom and open the clips going up. With the TV face down on a soft surface just keep pulling on the back case from the bottom, it’ll take some effort to pop open. The top edge folds open more like a hidge than clips.
BRB, going to whisper sweet nothings to my dumb Sceptre.
I can’t figure out where to get a dumb Sceptre. They disappeared from Amazon a year or so ago.
I just looked, and there seems to be ton of them on ebay
Yeah they’re gone now. This is one of those things where I can’t get a capitalist to explain it to me. There has to be an absolutely monstrous market for this. So why does it go unfilled?
My best guess: When they make a smart TV with ads built in they make money off those ads. That makes such TVs more profitable per unit than ad-free TVs. The only way ad-free (and privacy-friendly) TVs would make them more money is if they’d sell much more units. There aren’t enough people who deeply care about ads and privacy to drive such increased sales numbers.
While there is a relevant market for relatively dumb displays (companies that need digital signage), that market is willing to pay a significant markup and usually values reliability over picture fidelity. So yes, you can buy a dumb display but it might not have the most impressive picture and will definitely cost a lot more.
Yeah but Sceptre has plenty of dumb PC monitors on Amazon, it’s not like they’ve moved to the Smart TV game, they’ve just abandoned what simply must be an incredibly lucrative niche market for no discernible reason.
Edit: It could be something like their competitors are outbuying them on the screen front and they rely on third party screens.
Even that is only kinda true, in theory. You’re not going to find a digital signage display at any normal retailer.
The speakers are crap, but its so nice knowing that ive got one less problem.