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Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by andix on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:17AM (#31038071)
TVs without a tuner are quite popular in Austria. You save around 30€ per month on payments to public TV stations, if your TV is just a monitor and has no tuner.

You can get for example one of those (german, but you probably can read the specs anyway):

https://nogis.at or https://www.gisbefreit.at/

Most devices are not high end though.

Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by 404mm on Friday April 15, 2022 @08:51AM (#31039609)
Vizio makes (or used to make) those as well. I have one of their 4k 70” without tuner (in the US). It does not suck any less. Disclaimer: I received it as a “equal replacement” by squaretrade for broken Sharp 70”
Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by pluc on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:02AM (#31039713)
Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by woldenron on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:12AM (#31039823)
Do you perhaps know how does it work in Germany? I heard you have to pay the TV tax regardless if you have a TV or not.
Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by nicbou on Saturday April 16, 2022 @03:53AM (#31050514)
Yes, the Rundfunkbeitrag is per household. There are ways to get a reduction, but only because of financial difficulties or a handicap. The devices you own have no effect on the TV tax. It has been so for many years.

https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/gez-rundfunkbeitrag

Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by LeonidasXIV on Friday April 15, 2022 @11:27AM (#31041277)
Yes, you have to pay the Rundfunkgebühr also if you don't have a TV but your computer has access to the Internet because public broadcasters also have a presence on the Internet.
Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by BrandoElFollito on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:08AM (#31039784)
> Most devices are not high end though.

Do you mean that their quality is meh, or whether they lack functionality?

Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by andix on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:25AM (#31039973)
The functionality is fine. You can turn them on and off. And you probably want to use a soundbar, because of bad speakers. But the panels are just not great. Like all the other TVs in that price range.
Re:It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV by rcarmo on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:24AM (#31038114)
These seem great. I wonder where they have them manufactured.