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yes, but not connected for the most part.
by jethro_tell 8y ago
yes, but not connected for the most part.
- diminoten 8y agoYes, with fewer features. Don't make the mistake of thinking you are a representative of all customers. YOU may not care about connectivity, but others, many others, do.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoYes, but the right way to do this is to get a separate device for the connectivity part, in order to protect yourself against services having much shorter lifetime than hardware. Techies knows this, and customers who got burned on smart TVs know this too. Regular people don't always realize this, but companies pushing smart TVs know this perfectly well. This is pretty obvious planned obsolescence. In my eyes, it's scamming people.
- diminoten 8y agoTechies don't "know" this, I want to be abundantly clear that having a technical background doesn't make you more savvy to security concerns -- if this were true, the prevalence of security problems throughout the industry wouldn't be nearly as pervasive. Security isn't about being perfect, so stop pushing that false narrative. It's about being good enough, and plenty of companies making smart TVs can certainly become "good enough".
- dragonsngoblins 8y agoI recently got a smart TV, and I use the netflix app built into it, as well as the general video player for playing files I have on my computer's media server... But I used to just use my Playstation for that before I got a tv with the apps. As long as the tv has import ports I can use other devices than the TV itself to get content so I'm not really concerned about that. I bought the TV because it was good at being a TV - that is, it is OLED, high res, good upscaling, etc. The "smart" stuff I could take or leave, but I'm enjoying the convenience of it while it works.