Turning Off the Roku Features of Your TCL Smart TV

You have the option to disable the Roku features of your TCL Smart TV…

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      7 months ago

      I would say that having an option to turn that garbage off is actually a point in its favor. They’re very cheap TVs and if you don’t have to enable the roku spying option then that’s a plus in my book.

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      7 months ago

      This is more for people like me who already have one and still need to use it as a monitor, but want to make sure that Roku never collects another bit of data from us.

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        7 months ago

        Thank you, I am in this group. Two 65" TCL TV’s and I would love to de Roku them in light of recent events.

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    7 months ago

    this rules, thank you!!

    would a factory reset destroy any driver/codec updates, or are those a firmware based changes that wouldn’t be overwritten?

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      7 months ago

      From this link:

      “A factory reset returns the TV to its original, out-of-the-box state. Performing a factory reset will remove all stored personal data relating to your settings, network connections, Roku data, and menu preferences.”

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    7 months ago

    What’s the point of turning everything you’re plugging in on first? It looks like you get an input selection screen regardless.

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        7 months ago

        The TCL TV I use for my PC monitor has a setting to always boot into an input

        I do that and never see the smart features, shit I’ve never even connected it to the Internet

        I just use it as a 42 in. 4k monitor

        Edit: I should mention that depending on viewing distance the PPI of a monitor can be quite low before it starts having a noticeable degregation on the viewing experience. At my sitting distance of roughly 30in from the monitor a PPI of 105 (basically what a 42in 4k screen has) is fine as even at that distance individual pixels aren’t visible. (45in at 4k is where you start being able to resolve them with 20/20 vision (we get about 1 arc minute of res from our eyes which some ugly math tells us that at a viewing distance of 30in we could determine details at about 100ppi (0.01 inches) in size))

        Edit 2 For the really curiously nerdy:

        Here's a little chart for max screen sizes for various seating distances based on PPI. The numbers are rounded (and start with a rounded number) and all of them have a FOV around 66 degrees.

        Personally I wouldn’t go for the max size on any of these and I’d go for a bit lower. Cheaper, dead pixels are harder to see, you may change your viewing distance based on comfort, minimizing screen door effect, etc, etc.

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      7 months ago

      Solely to let the TV’s auto configuration and discovery pick it up and customize the inputs automatically. But you’re right, it’s not actually necessary to power everything on.