• onion@feddit.de
    6·
    8 months ago

    Do TVs actually refuse to work if you don’t connect them to the internet?

    • Pregnenolone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      8 months ago

      I’ve owned a lot of different brands and none have ever pestered me to connect to the internet.

      It could be the very cheap ones that make you do it. When I visited China I noticed that every TV showed ads so could be a jurisdiction thing too

    • Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world
      82·
      8 months ago

      Depends on the TV. Most of them work without internet. Only a few of them fit the meme.

      Actually, I just realized that the TV wouldn’t know to update if it isn’t connected to the internet, so the meme falls apart.

    • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
      31·
      8 months ago

      there’s ones that lose money if you buy them, so they are extremely cheap. They make it back by you watching ads, selling your data etc… I could imagine that those force you to connect to the internet.