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This video[0] from 2021 claims that Google TV gives users the option to switch off all smart features and use it as a dumb TV. Looks like Sony and TCL are making models with Google TV[1].

However, if past is prologue then they will probably be off the market in a year.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwYPO_SN0C0

1 - https://www.bestbuy.com/site/google/learn-about-google-tv/pc...



Or Google introduces new ads like when they screwed over Nvidia Shield users with a mandatory UI update that highlights ads.


Everyone got screwed over, even people who had paid thousands of dollars for Sony TVs got it https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...


I have a TCL TV and had exactly this problem with an Android TV update that got pushed without me wanting it.




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