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>At home, I've never connected my TV to my network The next (already there?) steps are the TV automatically scanning for open wifi network to leverage and/or h
by marcinzm 4y ago
>At home, I've never connected my TV to my network
The next (already there?) steps are the TV automatically scanning for open wifi network to leverage and/or having a built in 4g connection.
- chaostheory 4y agoNot everyone lives in higher density housing, so open wifi networks are not always a given. Also a built-in cellular modem would be antithetical to having a lower cost TV set based on ad subsidies. I would worry more about mesh networks like Amazon sidewalk
- boring_twenties 4y agoAmazon has had "free" cellular service in their Kindles for over a decade, I'm pretty sure TVs have more margin than that.
- dmurray 4y agoOr partnerships between the TV company and the ISPs, to put additional wireless networks on their consumer routers that are accessible to the TVs.
- runnerup 4y agoOr Amazon Sidewalk for the mesh network version of this.
- fmajid 4y agoComcast does this in its routers, and no longer allows you to opt-out. They also have all the advertising ecosystem integration, of course.
- sangnoir 4y agoThat's why one should never use ISP-provided routers. Since ISPs can update/control devices connected to their network, buy a modem without WiFi: anything downstream of that is your network.
- rovr138 4y agoSamsung and Huawei are doing 5G, https://www.techradar.com/news/samsungs-5g-8k-tv-promises-to-make-netflix-streaming-faster-than-ever https://www.techradar.com/news/samsungs-5g-8k-tv-promises-to... https://www.techradar.com/news/huawei-is-developing-a-5g-8k-tv-because-thats-apparently-a-thing-now https://www.techradar.com/news/huawei-is-developing-a-5g-8k-...
- HeckFeck 4y agoCynical, sly enthusiasm. I just can't imagine 5G bands devoted to adverts passing invisibly through my skin. It is too much like the adverts in your dreams skit from Futurama. Again, it is increasingly hard to separate satire from prophesy.