Any manufacturers that still make a normal TV with no features except audio and video inputs?
Non smart TV
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Unfortunately for those that want them, they are few and far between and also base model offerings.
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My TV is a Sanyo CRT with a converter box so i can watch local news.
Thanks for the help!
Thanks for the help!
That's like buying a new car that isn't fuel injected.
It's like buying a new car that doesn't tell your insurance company how fast you drive.
At some point the manufacturers are going to stop providing external AV inputs to force you to connect the TV to the internet.
Ok you don't have to be rude. Duh?
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Thank you i just placed one on order.
Mine is a smart TV but I'm not using those features and it's not connected to the net. My viewing is either DVD, OTA or through a NUC computer connected to the net for HULU, HBO Max, Amazon and YouTube.
We got a really smart TV. It's a 42 inch Samsung that was free on Freecycle.
My wife and I are also paid $15 a month for some Neilsen like service to track our watching. We rarely spend more than an hour a day watching shows and it lowers our effective Internet price to only $15 a month. We have been doing that since well before COVID (late 2018).
Yes we do have a ton of free channels and with my business Prime account that I need for my work no matter what, we get Prime Video as well.
Personally I love the idea of getting an antenna some day when we move but until I retire this is going to be our set-up.
My wife and I are also paid $15 a month for some Neilsen like service to track our watching. We rarely spend more than an hour a day watching shows and it lowers our effective Internet price to only $15 a month. We have been doing that since well before COVID (late 2018).
Yes we do have a ton of free channels and with my business Prime account that I need for my work no matter what, we get Prime Video as well.
Personally I love the idea of getting an antenna some day when we move but until I retire this is going to be our set-up.
I suppose it might be possible to just get a large HDMI monitor with external audio. But for the most part it's so cheap to put the smart TV hardware integral to the TV.
At the very least, traditional TVs would have a tuner and the ability to just take a cable TV input. On an older TV I'd just connect the cable line and would get video directly without a cable box. Or I suppose the idea might be to connect a cable box.
At the very least, traditional TVs would have a tuner and the ability to just take a cable TV input. On an older TV I'd just connect the cable line and would get video directly without a cable box. Or I suppose the idea might be to connect a cable box.
I got my TV today and it works excellent. I connected it to my outside antenna and it picks up 9 channels with ease 
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.Get a monitor with a soundbar
The device that decodes over the air video is the same thing that makes a tv smart, so 90% of what you need is already in the set.
If you don’t want the vulnerability of smart features just don’t enter WiFi info, my smart set doesn’t allow you to forget a connection or reset/erase so I ended up changing WiFi once the set went EOL and continued communicating despite none of the features working
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are you located in a mountainous area? how high is your antenna wonder if placement would get you more channels... have you played around with antenna placement?I got my TV today and it works excellent. I connected it to my outside antenna and it picks up 9 channels with ease
only as smart as the operatorAll Tvs are not very smart
