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Viewer emotions will anger and frustration at their ads.
I see a lot of concern in this thread that future TVs would just peer-to-peer or cellular connect to do their dastardly functions. Wouldn’t this be preventable by putting a fine wire mesh around the box on the rear of the panel? Sure, the signal could still go out through the panel, but that’s bound to incur a lot of interference from the panel itself, right?
I have a Kurig coffee maker (too little respect to spellcheck their name). It puts out a BLE beacon that I can receve a mile away. Its hard to know what that bugger is doing. G-force was right!
it’s looking for other keurigs to mate with, like a barnacle
Chances are they’ll have some antenna line going to the edge of the TV. The box on the back of the TV already has a bunch of shielding over it inside. If you were to go to the trouble of opening the TV to find it, you may as well disconnect the antenna and ground it so there’s no chance of a signal.
The simplest solution is just don’t buy these TVs
That’s increasingly difficult to do.
Or expensive.
At this point, I’m wondering if I should set up a shell company of some kind, just to buy commercial digital signage TVs. They require registering with a company just to be allowed to buy them.
Hopefully the TVs don’t won’t require that connection to operate.
HOW EXCITING…
said no one ever.
I rooted my 65" LG TV, and put a pi-hole in front of it.
How did you root it? All methods I’ve seen appear to require you to get it online first, usually to visit a website that does it for you (seems sketchy).
That’s true, but the root method is open source:
https://github.com/throwaway96/faultmanager-autoroot
That said, if it does cause issues, there’s nothing saying I can’t just block it at my router.
Lucky Cream and Goldstar (the L and G in LG) would be ashamed of this.
So glad I haven’t got a LGtv, I’d have to buy a sledgehammer as well.
If you want a serious mind fuck read “stand On Zanzibar” a science fiction novel from 1969.
One of the things that the writer predicted was Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere, a gimmick where your TV would insert your family into advertisements.
The novel is full of other, equally accurate predictions…
I’d rather just not have a tv
Just don’t connect it to the internet.
Aren’t some companies thinking of releasing TVs that won’t work unless connected to the internet?
I’m sure they’re thinking about it. Anyone who buys one of those deserves no better.
Don’t some try to locate public access points nearby? Or is it just an internet myth?
I have an open access point and my neighbour’s TV is on it. I’m not sure if it was deliberatel.
I still use a dumb TV, and I will for as long as possible. I’ll never buy a new TV ever again. only used from Facebook. most stuff I only watch on my computer anyways.
I make my smart TVs dumb. No internet connectivity.
That is my solution as well for now. I bet TVs will start to come with cellular chips soon though.
Does anyone make a living room sized Faraday cage?
God, I wish we kept our CRT.
My friend still has his. Let me tell you, that thing has a presence.
You know back in the day they were like easily half a dozen custom Android ROMs for any given phone. I’m pretty sure that there’s still a diversity of ROMs available.
Why is this not the case with televisions?
TVs generally don’t come with unlocked bootloaders. That shit is locked down big time.
Because there’s no easy way to install it. TVs don’t usually have a data transfer usb-c port.
For now, most of the ad bullshit can be turned off. Though it turned back on after the latest software update and forced me to spend another 10 minutes digging through the horrendous settings menu.
Ahw fuck, wasn’t LG like the last reasonable tv brand out there?
What should invuy if i want a new good 4K TV?
A book.
Sceptre TV
I’ve seen this linked before, and unfortunately the specs are very mediocre on their TVs. I don’t know how they can claim a TV is HDR when it has a meh contrast ratio, no dimming zones, and can’t even do 100% of the sRGB color space.
I don’t know how much of the price of other TVs are subsidized by ads, but these Sceptre TVs are pretty bad value when looking at panel specs alone.
umm guys this isn’t a news article, it’s a Black Mirror episode
