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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by dawnerd on Sunday April 01, 2018 @12:07PM (#16728976)
The nvidia shield is pretty much what you’re looking for. I just don’t hook my tv to the network and just rely on my shield for everything. Works great.

Learned my lesson a few years ago when my 3,000+ Samsung tv decided one day they were going to spam advertisements for GameStop in the notifications. Of course they deny that ever happened but I have proof on my twitter. Too lazy to look it up right now though.

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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by mitchty on Sunday April 01, 2018 @12:57PM (#16729236)
Ha, I have the same setup, samsung tv and a shield.

The tv's never been updated since I bought it, never configured wifi and there isn't any open wifi around for it to try to connect to.

Smart tv's aren't smart enough to come with their own internet connection... yet. God I hope they don't put something like cellular connections in these things, then I'd have to find the damn radio and desolder the antennae.

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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by maksimum on Sunday April 01, 2018 @01:40PM (#16729447)
Inb4 "your TV failed to turn on because of a timeout while trying to access manufacturer.com for checksum verification."
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