Announcing the First Netflix Recommended TVs

Re:Announcing the First Netflix Recommended TVs by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @01:08PM (#9335481)

> The exception being Netflix on the non-theater TVs, for that I usually use the on-TV Netflix client.

And, if that fits what you want, great. OTOH, If someone is trying to avoid unwanted features of SMART TVs, some of which may not be separately opted-in and which generally rely on network access, providing network access to the SMART TV to allow the use of the on-TV Netflix client is self-defeating.

(I'm personally not so concerned about those features, though I've seen plenty of people who seem to be, I just want to avoid relying on SMART TV features because they are additional potential sources of failure, and because the "SMART" parts become outdated much faster than the display parts.)

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Re:Announcing the First Netflix Recommended TVs by brk on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @02:04PM (#9335862)

But you can still get the TV cheaper. If you're using a monitor, that's implying all your sources are outside the TV anyway. You don't need to plug the TV into a network then.

So, the TV effectively becomes a monitor, but cheaper.

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