• brandon@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      1 day ago

      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.).

    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      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.