This is a pet peeve of mine, walking into the house of a family member, business lobby, etc. and see awful looking video on the screen because they didn’t turn this garbage off.
Apples to oranges feature though.
funny thing: i did not know the name of it and i couldn't not understand why "Avengers: Infinity Wars" was so upsetting to watch.
took me literally 20min of poking around to find out the option and turn it off (it's called "TruMotion").
What’s crazy to me is that some people can’t see it! Or think they line it... or the lunatics that actually do!
Once you see it; I don’t think it can be unseen.
On this note, I would suggest never connecting it to your network (it could secretly remember your wifi password). Maybe it's just a bug, but once in a while the my Samsung TV's usb connection is listed as the last used source. I've never connected anything to the usb connection and it's wall mounted above my desk (where my kids and wife would not be able to reach it so I know it's not them using it either). It could be a coincidence, but I have also not seen it do this since I changed the wifi password in the access point.
Needless to say, when I bought a new TV recently I never connected it to the network at all.
One would assume it'd be as simple as that, but apparently it ain't because many SmartTV's will jump trough quite a few loops to get online, like using nearby open Wifi.
At least there's been a bunch of stories like this in past HN discussions around SmartTV's.
Last time this came up someone was telling me the TV could get Ethernet from an HDMI cable via an AppleTV or Xbox etc. Stackexchange said the tech was dead and no one really adopted it. You can’t find a TV or even a cable that supports it.
Any source about the auto connect to open WiFi?
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