I don’t know how misinformation about TVs spreads. Actually, that’s not true, I absolutely do. Uninformed people make a claim online; it gets repeated as received wisdom; Reddit references it; and ChatGPT and other large language models use those posts as sources.
As someone who has reviewed TVs since the early 2000s, and confirmed with a major TV manufacturer, I’ll tell you decisively: You can’t speed up an older smart TV. Sorry.
I think some of the confusion stems from a misunderstanding of what TVs are truly capable of — and what’s actually happening when they’re “slow.”
All TVs, even the best ones, use far less capable processors than what’s in your phone, tablet or computer. They might do a good job in a few specialized things, like image processing, but broadly speaking, TVs use the least expensive (aka slowest) processors they can reasonably get away with. You can’t speed up slow
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