tvs used to be cool before they turned them into always-on data vacuums. why do you need internet access to play a video on my local network foh

tvs used to be cool before they turned them into always-on data vacuums. why do you need internet access to play a video on my local network foh
We need to bring back dumbass CRT TVs that used to pop randomly in the middle of the night scaring the shit out of you, not these so called "Smart" TVs that can't do shit offline
yeah i'm never connecting my tv to the internet. it gets a hdmi and that's it