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I just want a somewhat trustworthy organization to develop a "DUMB" certification. I will pay extra for a certified DUMB TV.

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> I will pay extra for a certified DUMB TV.

We used to call them monitors [1], but a dumb TV at TV prices would be very appealing. Even more so because, with the smaller board brains, it might have more space for different inputs.

[1] https://www.dell.com/en-ie/shop/dell-86-4k-interactive-touch... seems a little bit too smart. It's funny when you need to get rid of a monitor because it "knows too much"...

It will only be a matter of time until Congress realizes that among all the user tracking adtech companies there are also Chinese companies, at which point all user tracking including smart TVs will be banned.

That's... very optimistic. What evidence until now exists points to that outcome? You don't think they'll prefer the lazy route of targeting the Chinese companies themselves to avoid the real conversation?

Look at digital signage monitors. Even with that classification they have HDMI and some have WiFi.

Some of them lack the right flavors of HDCP.

Also way more expensive than TVs.

Shouldn't be that hard to build a replacement board for popular sets. There are replacement electronics for analog CRT-based TVs.

Digital Universal Media Box.

I was trying to backronym it, but I got stuck on "Doesn't Upload My (synonym for data)"

Bits

I love it, esp. the double entendre. "Don't Upload My Bits!"

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