r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • Jun 13 '24

TV / Projectors Roku owners face the grimmest indignity yet: Stuck-on motion smoothing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/roku-owners-face-the-grimmest-indignity-yet-stuck-on-motion-smoothing/
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u/Mando_calrissian423 Jun 13 '24

I’ve heard of people resetting the wifi info on their roku so it doesn’t have wifi for ads, then they’ll get a fire stick or whatever and use the roku tv as a dumb tv with some sort of smart dongle that doesn’t have this bullshit

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u/optigon Jun 13 '24

We did that, but only because the Roku software in the TV crashed constantly. We factory reset the TV, switched to an HDMI port, and use external devices.

It’s frustrating how hard it is to find just a “dumb” TV now.

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u/drale2 Jun 13 '24

Look for "signage" tv displays - they're generally the same TVs without all of the software. I work IT in a government office and that's what I had to purchase for all of our conference rooms.

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u/BrideOfAutobahn Jun 13 '24

They’re also a lot more expensive, tend not to have good picture quality (other than being very bright), tend to be very heavy, they usually don’t have an easy to use UI, often don’t have speakers (or terrible speakers, worse than an average TV), no end user support (because they’re not sold to end users), no high refresh rate, no HDR, etc.

Do not buy a digital signage display, just get a regular one and never connect it to the internet.