Soon they won’t have to because of services like Amazon Sidewalk or the ISP-provided WiFi routers that use the customer’s home to sell internet. Your neighbor’s Palantir camera that spies on you whenever you leave your house will help your TV spy on you inside your house.
Maybe the very new ones? I’ve actually got a relatively new Roku TV (only about a year and a half old), and it works just fine without the wifi password.
Only thing that annoys me about it (and probably would have gotten me to buy a different model if I knew) is that this TV has zero physical buttons. Zero. It doesn’t even have a power button! The only way to control it – even just to turn it on and off – is with the remote. If you lose the remote, the TV is bricked. (I understand omitting physical buttons to cut costs, especially on a budget model like this one, but IMO, it’s still essential to have a power button and an input switching button as physical buttons on the TV itself.) In any future TV purchases, I’ll be specifically checking to make sure they have a physical power button at least. Didn’t even check for it when I bought this TV because it didn’t even occur to me that a TV might not have a power button.
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Just never tell your TV what the wifi password is.
These nosy-ass companies aren’t going to pay for a cellular connection just to spy on your TV.
Soon they won’t have to because of services like Amazon Sidewalk or the ISP-provided WiFi routers that use the customer’s home to sell internet. Your neighbor’s Palantir camera that spies on you whenever you leave your house will help your TV spy on you inside your house.
please connect to the internet to do anything
If the TV can’t even display basic inputs without connecting to the internet, I’m returning it to the store as defective.
Isn’t the new roku TVs that do this.
Maybe the very new ones? I’ve actually got a relatively new Roku TV (only about a year and a half old), and it works just fine without the wifi password.
Only thing that annoys me about it (and probably would have gotten me to buy a different model if I knew) is that this TV has zero physical buttons. Zero. It doesn’t even have a power button! The only way to control it – even just to turn it on and off – is with the remote. If you lose the remote, the TV is bricked. (I understand omitting physical buttons to cut costs, especially on a budget model like this one, but IMO, it’s still essential to have a power button and an input switching button as physical buttons on the TV itself.) In any future TV purchases, I’ll be specifically checking to make sure they have a physical power button at least. Didn’t even check for it when I bought this TV because it didn’t even occur to me that a TV might not have a power button.
I am bringing this TV back for a refund as it doesn’t work.
Or let it connect and drop it down a sinkhole on its own VLAN.
No idea if this is actually better, but it’s what I do for the free smart things in my house.