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never use any of the online features of their "Smart" TV Good thing you have a Samsung. If you had a Sony, you wouldn't even be able to use the Antenna input.
by PhantomGremlin 8y ago
never use any of the online features of their "Smart" TV
Good thing you have a Samsung.
If you had a Sony, you wouldn't even be able to use the Antenna input. In past years Sony pushed over-the-air updates to their TVs. I think they piggybacked local PBS stations for this.
I don't know if Sony still does this. I didn't search too hard, but here's an note from 2015 acknowledging what happens: https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00008947 https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00008947
key text is:
The update is received directly
from an over-the-air broadcast.
- crtasm 8y agoThat's a one way communication, there's no way for the TV to send information back to Sony over it.
- PhantomGremlin 8y agoThat's a one way communication Good point. But the TVs (like mine) are 120 Hz refresh. So they need algorithms to interpolate/smooth the video inputs that are 24 Hz, 60 Hz interlaced, 60 Hz. Sounds like a nice feature. But people complained that the new algorithms pushed to the TV without people's knowledge or consent were inferior to the old algorithms. I personally wouldn't know, I kept my TV far away from an antenna input. Sony can't "spy" on you with this method, but they can "break" your TV while you're asleep.
- verall 8y agoI can imagine them introducing a bug, but most motion of the interp is done in hardware. Otherwise it takes a seriously hefty gpu to do 60hz->120hz interp without dropping frames. Especially at 4K.