• guiguinofake
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    11 months ago

    Roku tvs already do that, you even need to put in a credit card number for it to work.

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      11 months ago

      You can choose not to connect a Roku TV to the Internet during the initial setup, and you just get access to live TV and the HDMI inputs with (obviously) no streaming channels or updates. It works fine as a dumb TV.

      And the credit card thing? That’s after you create your account on their website, you can just close the browser window. Or click the button saying “skip” or “later” or whatever it is.

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        11 months ago

        Was helping family with setting it up, I guess I didn’t see that

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          11 months ago

          They don’t make it obvious at all, in fact they do their best to seem like you can’t