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Which TV has a (mostly) ad-free OS and works with a few regular apps?

My old Android TV is almost 10 years old and despite ADB modding it shows its age. So I took a look around and quickly found out how bad things have gotten in the Smart TV space.

Dumb TVs are out of the question because of their high prices - they’re for commercial use after all.

What I want is a nice big TV (around 65" to 75") with a real colorful, sharp display and an OS that does not annoy me with ads (I despise ads) and recommendations while still fulfilling my needs, which are

  • Crunchyroll
  • Prime
  • Ad-free Youtube client like smarttubenext
  • HDMI for console gaming
  • Absolutely no stuttering and frame rate issues when playing videos in apps
  • Preferably no stuttering menus
  • Reasonably priced

Anything else is completely uninteresting to me.

And yes, I know about the nvidia shield, but that thing is 5 years old and I don’t want to ride an already old horse that might be replaced very soon due to its age (even though there’s currently no signs of that on the horizon). I also don’t like using more than one remote…

I have no issue with modding it as long as that’s reasonably possible - just to get rid of most bloatware, annoyances, ads and such.

Any ideas?

protokaiser ,

Buy the tv that suits your needs and then use a streaming device: Roku, Apple TV, Raspberry Pi, any modern video game console, etc. Back in college an acquaintance worked at Hulu and confirmed that no one works on the smart tv app. This was like 15 years ago, so things may have changed but I’ve never enjoyed the smart tv experienced (always been super slow Ford me).

hanrahan ,
@hanrahan@slrpnk.net avatar

Yeah, smart TV, never connect it to the 'net, get a used shield pro, ADB and side load F Launcher. No ads.

Shelds remote can control the TV volume and its connected via HDMI and the Shiekd Pro remote switches both off and on. I use Kodi, Prime, Smart Tube Next and a couple local TV apps.

Not what u want but that’s where I am and it works well.

Be interested to see the responses

anivia , (edited )

If you get an Android TV you can modify it to be ad-free and run pretty much every app you need. Sony TVs use Android TV

Apollo2323 ,

If you are in the US you can buy a Samsung TV not connected to the internet and then installed a Onn Android TV from Walmart. Thats what I do :)

anon5621 , (edited )
@anon5621@lemmy.ml avatar

Personally i bought modern samsung and not connecting it to the net for and online services i am still using my android tv box mecool km9 which i debloated also got root access and there possible to install custom firmware like on android phones soo basically much more customization ,u can look at brand mecool, x96 or ugoos.

governorkeagan ,

I remember seeing an article a little while back about this guy who had a similar issue. He ended up using a Raspberry Pi to avoid the ads.

Imperfect Linux-powered DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue

c0smokram3r ,
@c0smokram3r@midwest.social avatar

Oh dang! This is cool! I would love to get rid of a few streaming sticks I still use, sadly, and move over to something like this. I mainly use Plex so hopefully that would be an easy switch. Thanks for sharing!

kuneho , (edited )
@kuneho@lemmy.world avatar

Reading your post, all I can think of is to get a decent TV and a small form factor computer, install LibreELEC on it and you have a standalone Kodi box.

Lots of plugins available (YouTube, I think Crunchyroll too), absolutely no ads, no slowdown, fluent and capable UI. It can be strange that all the plugins use Kodi’s framework, but they all work just fine. Some needs some additional things to do to work, but you really set up your plugins once, and they are good to go. I’m using Kodi for 3-4 years continuously as my main media machine and all the plugins updates regularly. You can play back local or remote media through network share seamlessly. Just get a PC with enough hardware to do 4K video. (I’m watching at max 1080p, but for that, a 3rd generation Intel i5 was more than enough).

DudeImMacGyver ,
@DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works avatar

Just buy a commercial display and plug in your streaming device of choice.

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