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People laugh at the absurdity of IoT yet couldn’t live without a smart tv. Do “dumb” TVs even exist any more?
by hmsshagatsea 5y ago
People laugh at the absurdity of IoT yet couldn’t live without a smart tv. Do “dumb” TVs even exist any more?
- paco3346 5y agoSadly, not really. The last time I looked the only thing I could really find was commercial grade TVs.
- deep-root 5y agoSceptre brand TVs in the US have no smarts and are widely available.
- Koshkin 5y agoBut I could - happily.
- nemosaltat 5y agoThey do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273169
- asddubs 5y agowhat's a tv
- xyzzy21 5y agoSure. Take an "smart TV" and never connect it to the internet. It's pretty dumb then.
- itisit 5y agoI’ve heard of smart TVs scanning for a public access point regardless of user settings.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoLet your cyber guardian automatically do [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_deauthentication_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_deauthentication_attack :-)
- Hokusai 5y agoSmart TVs are not made because consumers want them but because to add advertisements to smart apps is a new revenue stream for TV makers. One that continues after the TV has been sold.
- TravisHusky 5y agoI bought a commercial TV from Samsung because it had basically no smart capability (it has some very limited smart features but they are easily disabled and ignored). I wanted something that would just not get in the way and would let me boot right into my Apple TV. Maybe it is not the traditional "dumb" TV, but it was nice to not have a ton of pop-ups and ads on a TV I paid for.
- mindslight 5y agoWhat exactly do you mean by "couldn't live without a smart tv" ? I'd say most people would do fine with a regular TV, and then hooking up whatever video playing devices they choose. It's marketing that pushes them into the high-friction trap of an integrated device where they can only reduce surveillance by throwing away the whole TV.