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All smart TVs—from LG, Samsung, TCL, and other brands—collect personal data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit surveillance. (www.consumerreports.org)

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The link has a ton of information.

Now, It is obvious that putting it completely offline is more safe. But, some people often use the TV's to watch Netflix or something like that. Then they might forget that it is still connected to the internet when they are done watching.

Under Privacy Settings, there are options for Device Usage Data, Collect App and Over-the-Air Usage, and Interest-Based Ads. All are enabled by default, but you can disable them.

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[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is the picture really better though? All the new stuff has image processing crap due to refresh rate mismatches and loads of older content never got a HD release, let alone 4k. I'm never gonna stop watching stuff like Star Trek, and voyager looks like dogshit given it never got a release beyond DVD because of how they did the editing.

Don't get me wrong, I know you can modify all kinds of settings to minimize the impact of the image processing. Turning off the processing gives you a ton of problems, and enabling the processing can work in some media but doesn't work quite right in others.

With my home setup the difference between plex, netflix and other streaming services can be pretty big depending on the formats supported by the specific show even. It's all a mess and if you want it to be right odds are you need to really mess with it and even then you only have so many options. Getting a new TV has not been as positive as I hoped for, but i've gotten used to it and just accept that some things look kinda garbage because tweaking one thing often makes one show better, but others might not be as good as a result.

[–] FG_3479@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

You need to keep the frame rate matching on and motion smoothing off. On an LG you turn "Real Cinema" or "Cinema Screen" on and turn "TruMotion" off. On a Sony, you set "CineMotion" to High and "MotionFlow" on with both sliders set to minimum.

[–] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Ya, I think it’s much better to be honest. I hate all the interpolation post processing crap too, but it just turn it all off. I found the old tv has a lot more light bleed from the back panel, and the newer tvs have blacker blacks and more contrast. I do think they are significant upgrades. But everything else is a major downgrade from the number of ports, the durability, the extra crap shoved down my throat, etc.

But if you use it just like a dumb monitor, it’s a great cheap tv.