Nothing prevents you from using your Smart TV in the same way as a dumb TV. Just don’t connect your TV to the internet and use a third-party device via HDMI.
Many, even when offline, will constantly pester you to connect to a network, or will attempt to connect to any open one it finds.
Some have offline, non-targeted ads from factory.
There have recently been trials of Amazon-powered TVs automatically linking to any Echo devices it can find and using it as a bridge to get internet. I’m unsure if that’s something they’re actually going to go ahead with right now though.
Nothing prevents you from using your Smart TV in the same way as a dumb TV. Just don’t connect your TV to the internet and use a third-party device via HDMI.
If you do that, depending on the TV, you might have some system messages and stuff on startup…
But yeah it’s a good start.
If TV can’t remember last used HDMI port that TV is a shit.
Ahhhh if only it were that easy
What is the problem?
Many, even when offline, will constantly pester you to connect to a network, or will attempt to connect to any open one it finds.
Some have offline, non-targeted ads from factory.
There have recently been trials of Amazon-powered TVs automatically linking to any Echo devices it can find and using it as a bridge to get internet. I’m unsure if that’s something they’re actually going to go ahead with right now though.
Roku doesn’t let you use your device unless you accept their TOS for example.