<story><title>Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads</title><url>https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1583755244</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>izacus</author><text>&amp;gt; Never buy a consumer product that expects an Internet connection.&lt;p&gt;This is a nice trite trope, but getting an affordable TV without these features might be nearly impossible for most people these days.</text></item><item><author>bleepblorp</author><text>Just as the &amp;#x27;s&amp;#x27; in &amp;#x27;IoT&amp;#x27; stands for &amp;#x27;security&amp;#x27;, the &amp;#x27;f&amp;#x27; in &amp;#x27;IoT&amp;#x27; stands for &amp;#x27;fairness to users.&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;Never buy a consumer product that expects an Internet connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisRR</author><text>Exactly, we bought my 75ish year old father in law a new TV because he was using a small SD flat panel and his eyesight is going.&lt;p&gt;But he hates it because there&amp;#x27;s a million buttons and menus to navigate, when all he wants is to type in the channel numbers.&lt;p&gt;It even needed a firmware update out of the box and he didn&amp;#x27;t have a clue why a TV would need new software and immediately panicked and refused to use the thing until we drove 150 miles to accept the update for him&lt;p&gt;We just wanted a TV that receives terrestrial TV and has a couple of HDMI ports for his DVR which he knows how to use without over complex menus, is that so much to ask?</text></comment>
<story><title>Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads</title><url>https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1583755244</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>izacus</author><text>&amp;gt; Never buy a consumer product that expects an Internet connection.&lt;p&gt;This is a nice trite trope, but getting an affordable TV without these features might be nearly impossible for most people these days.</text></item><item><author>bleepblorp</author><text>Just as the &amp;#x27;s&amp;#x27; in &amp;#x27;IoT&amp;#x27; stands for &amp;#x27;security&amp;#x27;, the &amp;#x27;f&amp;#x27; in &amp;#x27;IoT&amp;#x27; stands for &amp;#x27;fairness to users.&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;Never buy a consumer product that expects an Internet connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vanderZwan</author><text>How ridiculous is it that it&amp;#x27;s harder to get a product &lt;i&gt;without&lt;/i&gt; extra nonsense added?</text></comment>