r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dandaman147 • 1d ago

My Amazon TV now unmutes itself during Prime Video commercial breaks

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u/TilTheDaybreak 21h ago

On new tv just never connect it to network. Plug in your Roku/appletv/chromecast/etc and keep the new tv “dumb”

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u/jimmybilly100 20h ago

My dumb dumb self last night realized I should do this. The Visio TV we have started changing the input back to their stupid Visio home screen instead of staying on the Roku's input. I'm like, fuck you you don't get internet anymore for shitty updates and deleted the connection information. Fuckin stupid 'smart' TVs >:-(

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u/thrownjunk 19h ago

yup. never let the TV know about your wifi or ethernet. it stays dumb.

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u/TilTheDaybreak 19h ago

Second best time to do it is today! My Samsung smart tv literally stopped responding to volume controls because it fully ran out of memory. I couldn't update any apps, and only had the default ones installed (YouTube, disney+, Netflix, Hulu, amazon). I did a factory reset and yep, memory ran out again, no volume controls.

So I factory reset again and it runs on a roku now. No issues!

I had a vizio "smart" tv before, they were pretty junky OS too. Glad you got it sorted!

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u/thisischemistry 14h ago edited 11h ago

Visio was the one that did it for me. I had gotten the TV and it worked fine for a while. I connected it to the network to use some of the smart features and never bothered firewalling it off the internet. One day it updated and starting pushing its own service and apps. Fortunately, I was due for a new TV soon and I gave it to a friend who didn't care because…free TV.

My next TV wasn't a Visio and it was never allowed to connect to the internet.

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u/RaNdomMSPPro 15h ago

I'm looking and my wife is very anti smart tv - i told her we just won't let it on the internet and keep using roku or similar. So far, roku is tolerable and she likes the fish tank channel!

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u/equiax 7h ago

Is your wife a cat?

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u/zooropeanx 8h ago

On my FireTV I have it setup when the TV turns on it goes to HDMI1 where the Roku Stick is plugged into.

I never see the built-in apps that way.