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Start buying commercial displays. Cost more but will be about as close to a dumb tv. You will have to provide your own smart device for apps …

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Commercial displays are not tvs. Quite often the refresh rate is terrible and you cannot watch action movies on it, because it was designed to show static billboard ads.

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Not to mention if you want an OLED display, any sort of commercial variant of that will be $10000+ and marketed to Hollywood producers and other creative industries that care about color accuracy.

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11 points

Or hear me out… Just don’t give it an internet connection.

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10 points

Some TVs listen for open networks and use those, so if there is one near you your TV could sneak out either way.

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open the back of the TV, locate the arial on the board and scratch away the traces leading to it.

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If it doesn’t have the passphrase for wifi, how is it going to connect? I rarely see unsecured wifis around neighborhoods anymore. For copper/fiber, you’re not going to hook it up to keep it disocnnected.

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5 points

Cheaper TV’s sometimes won’t function without one.

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So buy one that’s a little more expensive and will. It’s still going to be tons cheaper that a commercial display and offer better performance

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This is what I did. Works fine for my needs. My older relatives hate it but they rarely come over.

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Hospitality TV

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