Comment on Can a Smart TV piggy back the internet of a HDMI device?
xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 3 weeks agoSecurity by obsoleteness
It was never a widely used protocol, and needs specially designed HDMI cables to work. It was something obscure and just barely past experimental.
This is like saying “Security by obsoleteness” because you won’t get hurt in a car accident because you don’t drive a flying car.
I meant it as a joke.
But for all practical purposes, it’s true. I don’t pay flying car accident insurance premiums because they are not mainstream. But I am insured against regular car accidents.
jaaake@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not just the obsoleteness of it, it’s the fact that any device that is on the other end of the TV’s HDMI cable would need to be actively routing internet traffic into the HDMI connection. What device would do that? Any device that’s using the TV as output for itself has no reason to also include network access.