Not Android

• Philips PUS7000 to PUS8400: what they ship with and what comes off

  Philips' cheap LED range is six near identical names. Five run a closed system and one runs Google TV, and the box does not say which is which.

• Panasonic MX950, MX650, MX610 and MX600: what they ship with and what comes off

  The floor of the Panasonic range. A Mini LED on an in-house system, an Android TV with the Play Store, and two sets whose app store is run by a company in Kiel that no longer goes by that name.

• Loewe and Bang & Olufsen: what they ship with and what comes off

  A 4,000-euro stellar runs the same VIDAA as a Hisense, and inside a 26,100-euro Beovision there is an LG screen running webOS. The regulated form says so.

• Hisense U6NQ, E6NT and S5Q: what they ship with and what comes off

  The 65-inch U6NQ declares 240 dimming zones and the 65-inch U7Q declares 220. Going down a rung does not remove what you would expect.

• Orange, MEO and Vodafone set-top boxes: what they ship with and what comes off

  On a TV the question is what you can remove. On an operator's box the question comes earlier: is it yours? All three contracts say no.

• Magenta, waipu and Swisscom set-top boxes: what they ship with and what comes off

  Eight operators across Germany, Austria and Switzerland hand out Android TV boxes. The question is not what comes off: it is whose it is. Each contract answers differently.

• Philips OLED760 and OLED770: what they ship with and what comes off

  An OLED with Ambilight and a closed system. These are the only two Philips OLEDs that do not run Google TV, and between the two there is not one declared difference.

• Philips PUS8500 and PUS9000: what they ship with and what comes off

  Philips' best-selling range is not Android. No ADB, no packages to disable, and inside the PUS range itself there is one series that does run Google TV.

• Sharp with Roku TV and TiVo OS: what they ship with and what comes off

  Sharp sells four different operating systems and only the model letter tells them apart. Two of them take no ADB at all. Worth knowing before you pay.

• LG with webOS: what you can clean up when there is no ADB

  On an LG running webOS the function that watches what you watch is called Live Plus, it arrives switched on, and it takes four clicks to turn off. The rest has less room.

• Samsung with Tizen: what you can clean up when there is no ADB

  On a Samsung running Tizen there are no commands. There is one checkbox buried inside Terms and Conditions that decides whether the set watches what you watch, HDMI included.

• Hisense with VIDAA: what you can clean up when there is no ADB

  On a Hisense running VIDAA no command will help you. What will are four settings almost nobody touches, and they take out most of the problem.

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