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I use the built-in AirPlay receiver on my Sony TV quite a bit and that requires network access

LG’s AirPlay requires internet access.

christ we need to start rooting tvs and start up a open and secure tv os. i never give my tv os internet access i rely on the appletv for the "smart tv" but if what another poster says is true about lg devices looking for public wifi to exfiltrate data then lol time to start pulling tvs apart and shielding their network components from getting a signal

That basically exists, but runs on external hardware: https://kodi.tv/

There's no need for the TV to be anything but a dumb screen that has only "power on", "power off", "volume up", "volume down" and "mute" functions. Most are probably too underpowered anyway to be useful.

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