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my tv is less than a year old. four firmware updates (allowed through the pihole to try to fix an audio bug.. but no luck there yet) so far and now the 'smart' bits are laggy and slow. the one app that i started to actually like over its web site can't handle more than a few hours now without freezing up (the tv needs to be restarted to 'fix'). it was fast and fine and could run for days on end before. at the rate its performance is deteriorating, it'll be unusable before its 2 year warranty is up.
which is all by design, i'm sure. yea, you might 'force' me into another tv, but you can't make me buy another one of your pieces of shit.
if it gets any worse, the tv is getting factory reset and never touching the net again. i might be able to salvage a few years out of it as a monitor before some cheap sub-component inside dies.
May I ask why you updated the firmware? I keep seeing people say that they disconnect the tv from the internet except for firmware updates, but if it works fine on day one and it’s always off line, why upgrade the firmware at all?