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Or just buy whatever TV you want, never connect it to the internet, and then plug in a separate box where you'll actually get the content from.
Smart TVs aren't actually that smart if they have no internet and you entirely bypass their home screen to go straight to whatever box you have.
Some will show ads anyway, or so I've heard. They're fn asshats
I don't see how. Unless it has, like, 20 predefined stored ads. But even then it might be refreshing in 20 years to see a commercial for Kia. Be like, "Oh yeah! I remember Kia! Man, crazy how long it's been since Kia's have been around. Such a bad car."
I wish I could find the source but I do remember seeing an article about it. Maybe it's a broken memory.
IIRC, it was Vizio brand TVs that had not yet been connected to a network and they were already showing ads implying that they had in fact been shipped with ads in their cache, or perhaps having been connected to a network for testing