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I suppose I can see cable box manufacturer, but why would the maker of your TV care in the slightest?
by burgerbrain 15y ago
I suppose I can see cable box manufacturer, but why would the maker of your TV care in the slightest?
- robin_reala 15y agoWarranty claims, and upselling. Samsung use (used?) Linux as the base OS for a large number of their TVs so of course replacement firmware projects sprang up (e.g. SamyGo [1]). The project added additional functionality to their TVs like playing movies from a USB stick - features that Samsung had restricted to their higher-end TVs. Within a few months Samsung had released an ‘official’ firmware upgrade that removed the ability to load unofficial (unsigned I guess?) updates. [1] http://forum.samygo.tv/ http://forum.samygo.tv/