alt Hacker NewsMy basic advice for media consumption in 2026:
- Buy the biggest LG C -series OLED TV you can afford and/or fit (WebOS, no Android TV crapola to deal with)
- Never connect it to the internet, LG wants to add all kinds of AI crap to it.
- Set it to Filmmaker Mode[0] to disable all of the "improvements" it tries to do to the image
- Buy an Apple TV
Done.
The ATV can turn the TV on and off and adjust the volume. You won't need the TV remote for anything after that.
I still use my 10 year old Apple TV 4k daily and it works like new, no slowdown, every single relevant streaming platform supports it with a dedicated app. It even got every single tvOS release until this fall.
[0] https://filmmakermode.com/ - also a good idea to do this to relative's TVs.
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Why replace the one corportate overlord controlling your media experience with another when you can just use a device you fully own to drive the display.
That filmmakermode.com site is useless. It tells you to click the logos to find out how and takes you to the homepage of the brands. No information at all.
> - Never connect it to the internet, LG wants to add all kinds of AI crap to it.
... Bad news, brand new 2026 LG OLEDs come with Copilot out of the box packed into the software. Ask me how we know out of absolute frustration. LG has started to super enshittify webOS packed in before you even put it online.
Now force Apple to let me install my own software however I see fit and i'll buy one in a heartbeat. Until then, they can fuck off.