Comment on Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Eggyhead@artemis.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do modern TVs even come in non-smart variants anymore?

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  • ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    yeah I have 3 connected to this PC

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    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But they’re expensive.

      A 50" TV is about $220. (smart TV)

      A 50" monitor is $650.

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      • ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yep. Thus why i edited my comment in an attempt to back-wheel a little.

        Monitors are more expensive because of generally higher refresh rates(images displayed per time interval), color accuracy, pixel density, and response time (how fast a pixel can change colors).

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It doesn’t really matter, just don’t connect them to the internet. Our TV just has a 14 year old computer that plays media perfectly, and is completely cut off from the internet.

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    • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If they allow you to do that without any loss in functionality.

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      • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It takes some research if youve never done anything like it before, but you can drip feed it the internet via a pihole, and starve it specifically of ads and data collection. Keep the functionality, kill the leech.

        Google smart tv pihole, theres a few guides, for anyone interested.

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Curious, what functionality would I lose? All it needs to do is turn on and display video through an HDMI port.

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  • devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    no.

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• vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s hard to buy a dumb TV now

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  • ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    its called a monitor

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    • space@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Above 35" monitors aren’t that common, and the ones that exist are basically TVs with TV software.

      Commercial displays are the only real alternative. Some of them even come with a slot for a Raspberry Pi compute module.

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  • omni@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I heard Sceptre still sells them. Never bought one so can’t vouch for quality

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• MaxVoltage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  new Moto G phones come to mind lol

  just got one and dear lord so much adware

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• jvisick@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Admittedly I haven’t been looking that hard, but I don’t think I’ve seen a TV for sale in the past 10 years that wasn’t a “smart” TV.

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  • ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve updated my comment with some info, Hope it helps next time you’re in the market.

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