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Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?

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Re: Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?

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Post by js2 »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #68
ed25519FUUU wrote: post #2

The approach I’ve taken is to just keep my TV off the internet (never join a WiFi network) and make it smart via an Apple TV, which I personally believe to have the strongest privacy protection of any smart TV device. Another bonus is my TV UI hasn’t changed despite changing and upgrading TV brands.

Ethernet was added to HDMI https://thehometheaterdiy.com/hdmi-with-ethernet/

Pins 14 and 19, but HEC was never really adopted and those pins are today used for ARC/eARC instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#HDMI_Ethernet_and_Audio_R...

Re: Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?

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Post by xattt »

ed25519FUUU wrote: post #2

The approach I’ve taken is to just keep my TV off the internet (never join a WiFi network) and make it smart via an Apple TV, which I personally believe to have the strongest privacy protection of any smart TV device. Another bonus is my TV UI hasn’t changed despite changing and upgrading TV brands.

If this is the way that new TVs will be used, Ethernet-over-HDMI will see a comeback from the dead like nobody’s business!

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Post by whalesalad »

ed25519FUUU wrote: post #2

The approach I’ve taken is to just keep my TV off the internet (never join a WiFi network) and make it smart via an Apple TV, which I personally believe to have the strongest privacy protection of any smart TV device. Another bonus is my TV UI hasn’t changed despite changing and upgrading TV brands.

This is the pro gamer move. I have a new LG C2 OLED and I love it. It has no idea that the internet exists. I use an Apple TV as well.

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Post by intelVISA »

than3 wrote: post #96
ed25519FUUU wrote: post #2

The approach I’ve taken is to just keep my TV off the internet (never join a WiFi network) and make it smart via an Apple TV, which I personally believe to have the strongest privacy protection of any smart TV device. Another bonus is my TV UI hasn’t changed despite changing and upgrading TV brands.

You may want to get yourself an SDR kit and check that for yourself. They typically broadcast on 43-33 cm band, (700-900mhz), and 2.4/5 ghz. You'd also be wrong about Apple's privacy protection.

Unfortunately SDR is a bit of a pandora's box... once you see how much data is covertly exfiltrated it's quite unnerving.

Re: Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?

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Post by xattt »

lancesells wrote: post #86
modriano wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The mesh would have to be so fine that you wouldn't be able to see the screen (unless you were inside the "cage").

Simple, go wired and encase the house in a faraday cage.

Houses finished with stucco tend to do this as a side effect, since stucco is applied onto a fine metal grid screwed to framing.

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Post by oblio »

shrike wrote: post #105
AlexAltea wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This already happens with Nespresso coffee machines (they have an SIM that connects to the Internet, whether you want it or not). That day is already yesterday.

Wow, they sure do. Page 29 of the user guide for the Nespresso Zenius says - This coffee machine is equipped with M2M (Machine to Machine) techology which may be activated in due time with your agreement. Thanks to a SIM card already integrated in the machine, such network connections will offer new services (subject to further terms and conditions) to its customers and improve the after sales process by automaticall…

I imagine that can be disabled physically?

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Post by spondylosaurus »

fideloper wrote: post #13

From a (cynical?) content and affiliate point of view, I like the style of taking user questions (bonus points if H.B. is a real person) and answering it - rather than just a bland list of products by "expensive but good, less expensive but less good" that wirecutter is. This lets the authors also recommend extra tangential items ("get a projector!"). On another note, my trust in these types of things have gone down…

Wirecutter helped me find a brand of toilet paper that doesn't turn my bathroom into a dusty wasteland, so for that alone I'll always at least entertain their recommendations. Have yet to be led astray by any of their picks.
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