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I'll echo what other people are saying, that you should just not connect the smart tv to your wifi, but I am nervous about smart TVs that ship with cell chips t
by TehShrike 2y ago
I'll echo what other people are saying, that you should just not connect the smart tv to your wifi, but I am nervous about smart TVs that ship with cell chips to connect to the manufacturer's servers when people don't hook the device up to wifi.
I'm not sure how to determine which models do or don't ship with cell chips.
- hocuspocus 2y agoThat's not a thing. Do you seriously believe OEMs would ship a 4G/5G modem and bundle an unlimited data plan with low margin consumer electronics, just to earn a few dollars per year from ads?
- popcalc 2y agoI agree, since 90%+ of people connect to WiFi, it's not economically sane. With cars it's a different story though.
- mikestew 2y agoAnd man, oh man, wouldn’t we all just love a device with a free cell modem and a data plan ripe for the hacking? IOW, if it has been done, hackaday, et al., would have already shown us how to bypass the weak obfuscation and get free data. Or at least an article on “my new Samsung TV has a cell modem that they don’t advertise. ‘da fuq?”
- TehShrike 2y agoIf it gave them enough extra data to sell, yes? I don't think Sony or Samsung would be paying consumer prices for cheap low-end cell chips or bulk low-bandwidth data plans.