If you never give a tv the internet, it stays a dumb tv, so far.
I think it’s only a matter of time before TV manufacturers start disabling the TVs if they can’t connect periodically. Or they’ll start shipping them with SIM cards.
Or doing what auto MFG’s do, add low bandwidth cellular service so they can directly get telemetry if you don’t give it internet. I don’t know if the economics of it scale with the TV price points, but they’d just bake that into the price and people would be unwittingly buing their own surveillance/ad machines anyways (like new phones, computers, etc.).
I bought my tv at a store last year. Ill throw it through their fucking window if this shit happens. Mine has never been connected to the internet and is in demo mode.
My Samsung TV isn’t connected, so it’s dumb but also passive aggressive. The input banner on the screen says “crime zone” when the internal source is selected.
If you never give a tv the internet, it stays a dumb tv
If you never give a tv the internet, it stays a dumb tv, so far.
I think it’s only a matter of time before TV manufacturers start disabling the TVs if they can’t connect periodically. Or they’ll start shipping them with SIM cards.
Ooo, free Internet on a hacked TV?
Or doing what auto MFG’s do, add low bandwidth cellular service so they can directly get telemetry if you don’t give it internet. I don’t know if the economics of it scale with the TV price points, but they’d just bake that into the price and people would be unwittingly buing their own surveillance/ad machines anyways (like new phones, computers, etc.).
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I bought my tv at a store last year. Ill throw it through their fucking window if this shit happens. Mine has never been connected to the internet and is in demo mode.
My Samsung TV isn’t connected, so it’s dumb but also passive aggressive. The input banner on the screen says “crime zone” when the internal source is selected.