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I like Amazon's model for this on the Kindle: Kindles are subsidized by ads, so you can buy what is effectively a REALLY cheap tablet from a well-known company if that's most important to you. OR, if you prefer, you can go pay a one-time fee an eliminate ads from the OS.
Or you can buy the cheap one with ads and keep it on aircraft mode, longer battery life, no ads. (Download content from PC via USB)
We have our smart TV just acting as a display for a mini PC via HDMI connection. TV knows nothing about our WiFi so no phoning home.
Modern TVs really seem to ruin the video even though they are perfectly capable of just showing a color adjusted signal, quickly becomes obvious when you plug in a computer.
A working device should never stop working because of an expiration of some made-up entity. It is a signs of compete failure in basic system design.
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I never hooked up the smart tv to my wireless network. I have heard too many stories about data getting sent back to the manufacturers to sell your watching habits, etc. Instead, I use a Roku, that I know gets updates (and yes, they also sell your watching habits, but so far, nextdns.io's lists block the DNS that roku uses to do this.)
I have a dummy hotspot with no access to anything whatsoever, and which I allow my TV to connect to. Apart from exposing an undocumented API (with code execution capabilities), and allowing logging in as root over Telnet (without a password), it also tries to fetch software updates over plain HTTP. It's a bloody nightmare. On the plus side, it was possible to disable many of the smart features once I discovered the t…
When are people going to learn that centralized cert authorities are just for commerce and only hurt the non-commercial web?
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My guess is the TV must support DRM
That's only for Bluray playback, for gaming the PS4 doesn't care about HDCP.
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I like Amazon's model for this on the Kindle: Kindles are subsidized by ads, so you can buy what is effectively a REALLY cheap tablet from a well-known company if that's most important to you. OR, if you prefer, you can go pay a one-time fee an eliminate ads from the OS.
Yeah, I would be less upset about the ad situation if they had made it clear up front and given me a choice like Amazon does with the Kindle. That said, when companies price the ad-free premium at 1000x the expected ad revenue, it gets aggravating again.
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Yeah, I would be less upset about the ad situation if they had made it clear up front and given me a choice like Amazon does with the Kindle. That said, when companies price the ad-free premium at 1000x the expected ad revenue, it gets aggravating again.
What's the advantage of this? Surely they're better off pricing it at 2x the expected ad revenue, since then they can expect to get twice as much now as they otherwise would get eventually ? Indeed, even if it were 1.01x the expected ad revenue they've won with this upsell.
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I never hooked up the smart tv to my wireless network. I have heard too many stories about data getting sent back to the manufacturers to sell your watching habits, etc. Instead, I use a Roku, that I know gets updates (and yes, they also sell your watching habits, but so far, nextdns.io's lists block the DNS that roku uses to do this.)
Problem some do connect to any non secured WiFi they can find.