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How do you install firmware updates??

by xwdv 7y ago

kspacewalk2 7y ago
I bought a dumb tv in 2013 that I still use just fine without any firmware updates. It's a screen, it needs no updates.
- o-__-o 7y ago
  I plugged in my pre-all-devices-spy 10 year old dumb tv to the network for the first time and now it hounds me for firmware updates.... I always reject because I don’t want it to learn how to spy on me. Pretty sure my firetv phones my hdmi content home
  - dghughes 7y ago
    Can't you set the onboard clock back a few years to fool it?
defen 7y ago
If it's not on the network why would you need firmware updates? (serious question)
- newnewpdro 7y ago
  Bugs affecting its base functionality?
  - type0 7y ago
    If it has serious bugs out of the box, just return the damn thing and get a different version.
    - newnewpdro 7y ago
      Well maybe you don't discover them until a year later when you connected some new peripheral on a previously unused input to discover it's unusable but there's a fix for the known problem. Is it really all that difficult to envision a legitimate need for bugfixes on a "smart tv" containing so much software? These things are as much a computer as they are a display. And modern software development practices have veered far into the direction of "ship yesterday, finish tomorrow with updates."
  - Slartie 7y ago
    It's not that hard to display whatever is coming in on HDMI-1. They usually get that working correctly in whatever firmware version the TV is shipped with, and I don't need more than that. They can even fuck up audio, as that goes through a proper receiver and external speakers anyway and the TV is thus constantly set to zero volume.
  - kingosticks 7y ago
    Hdmi-cec is a classic. The implementation on many TVs is riddled with bugs.
    - Slartie 7y ago
      Gets disabled by me immediately. I use a well-configured Logitech Harmony remote to orchestrate the various devices, hence no need for HDMI-CEC, which it's implemented differently by anyone anyway (and they mostly don't even consider that "bugs").
      - AdamJacobMuller 7y ago
        You should give it a shot again now, I also ignored it for years but with my most recent upgrades I tried it out and in some simpler cases, it works well!
opencl 7y ago
Most of them let you download the firmware updates on a computer and load them on a USB flash drive. That's how I've updated my Samsung that I never connect to the network.

How do you install firmware updates??

by xwdv 7y ago

How do you install firmware updates??

kspacewalk2 7y ago

I bought a dumb tv in 2013 that I still use just fine without any firmware updates. It's a screen, it needs no updates.

o-__-o 7y ago
I plugged in my pre-all-devices-spy 10 year old dumb tv to the network for the first time and now it hounds me for firmware updates.... I always reject because I don’t want it to learn how to spy on me. Pretty sure my firetv phones my hdmi content home
- dghughes 7y ago
  Can't you set the onboard clock back a few years to fool it?

defen 7y ago

If it's not on the network why would you need firmware updates? (serious question)

newnewpdro 7y ago
Bugs affecting its base functionality?
- type0 7y ago
  If it has serious bugs out of the box, just return the damn thing and get a different version.
  - newnewpdro 7y ago
    Well maybe you don't discover them until a year later when you connected some new peripheral on a previously unused input to discover it's unusable but there's a fix for the known problem. Is it really all that difficult to envision a legitimate need for bugfixes on a "smart tv" containing so much software? These things are as much a computer as they are a display. And modern software development practices have veered far into the direction of "ship yesterday, finish tomorrow with updates."
- Slartie 7y ago
  It's not that hard to display whatever is coming in on HDMI-1. They usually get that working correctly in whatever firmware version the TV is shipped with, and I don't need more than that. They can even fuck up audio, as that goes through a proper receiver and external speakers anyway and the TV is thus constantly set to zero volume.
- kingosticks 7y ago
  Hdmi-cec is a classic. The implementation on many TVs is riddled with bugs.
  - Slartie 7y ago
    Gets disabled by me immediately. I use a well-configured Logitech Harmony remote to orchestrate the various devices, hence no need for HDMI-CEC, which it's implemented differently by anyone anyway (and they mostly don't even consider that "bugs").
    - AdamJacobMuller 7y ago
      You should give it a shot again now, I also ignored it for years but with my most recent upgrades I tried it out and in some simpler cases, it works well!

opencl 7y ago

Most of them let you download the firmware updates on a computer and load them on a USB flash drive. That's how I've updated my Samsung that I never connect to the network.