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HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
I’ve gotta believe that inside somewhere there is an HDMI signal going to the monitor that you could move to the outside. I can’t imagine they are using anything else. It would take opening it up and looking around.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 months ago
HDMI is a communication protocol used by a chip that communicates with the control board for the display. The display does not receive HDMI connection in any form.
You maybe could find a dumb display driver that is compatible with the display, but what display options or inputs available would be very basic.
A better option is to buy a commercial display TV that does not have smart functionality.
HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Which chip exactly? Show me the datasheet. What SOC do they use for the smarts? Got a data sheet for it?
How would you think you would physically attach the display to the device “running the dumb display driver software”
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 months ago
i.ebayimg.com/images/g/…/s-l1600.jpg
The right side sort of outlined in white are all power related. The main chip that everything passes through is in the middle left under the black heat radiator. The small black chips are for encoding/decoding, storage, etc. the white FPC/FFC connectors up at the top left are the connections to the display panel and backlight.
There is no HDMI connection to the display without it being translated by the signal processing chips. HDMI comes in, gets decoded, that passes through the processor to handle signal translating to display instructions and signal processing for display properties, which is then output to the display. The operating system, which is always running in the background, is run on the same processing hardware that handles the display instructions.
There is no way to divorce the “smart” TV functions from the function that handles converting the HDMI to display instructions without hardware to replace all the functions of that board minus the smart functions or by replacing the firmware with dumb software that doesn’t have the smart functions.
There is no place to add an HDMI port that bypasses the smart processor because the smart processor is what makes HDMI to display communication possible.
HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Interesting. Thanks. Replacing the firmware would be awesome but I bet it is locked up pretty tightly.