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Don't give it WiFi credentials. (I've got a 5-year-old Samsung that's never connected to any network and it works fine.)
by sathomasga 4y ago
Don't give it WiFi credentials. (I've got a 5-year-old Samsung that's never connected to any network and it works fine.)
- Matthias247 4y agoAnd don’t plug in an ethernet cable
- Grazester 4y agoOne would think this would have been more obvious.
- anonymousab 4y ago> One would think this would have been more obvious. Devices can refuse to function without a network connection, and the profits to be made from simply including a cellular connection of some sort for ad refresh + tracking are too high to be ignored forever. So this isn't a reliable, long-term solution.
- astrostl 4y agoI have to think that far less than 1% of STV owners don't connect them. Adding hardware to capture whatever % of them it actually is seems extremely financially dubious to me, especially given how unlikely they are to have positive ad conversions.
- Grazester 4y agoThese are all hypothetical situations.
- johannes1234321 4y agoHow do you then get the software update, to fix buffer overflows while decoding the video stream? (ok, most TV vendors won't bother to fix and most video sources ate somewhat trusatable not to exploit ... especially as an exploit can't do much unless it is connected to a network)
- UberFly 4y agoYou could just update once in a while then unplug again.
- JoshTriplett 4y ago> How do you then get the software update Some of them allow updates via USB stick.
- jeffbee 4y agoIf you are using them at dumb displays, you aren't decoding video on them, you are sending them HDMI signals that were already decoded by your other thing.