Do you think they are going to stop making them, or do you see them entering the smart TV market with their own TV?

TVs may be “smart” but they are becomingly increasingly user-hostile with regard to tracking and force-feeding advertisements. I want to have the option of using devices that respects my privacy. Hopefully, I’m not alone and there continues to be a market demand for sudh user-friendly products.

>TVs are too smart now

This is why I’m so reluctant to look into modern TVs. The quality on my mid-range 2014 Sony is pretty average at best by today’s standards, but at least it’s not smart enough to know what I’m watching and has no network connectivity.

This also means I can’t easily control it with a smartphone without something like Logitech Harmony which is just awful in UX, but still… it can’t track what I’m doing on the TV either.