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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by Aspos on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:36PM (#28292259)
I once moved across the ocean and newly purchased LG TV refused to work because I am now in the wrong region. Off it went to a landfill, this perfect piece of hardware :-(
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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by beebeepka on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @06:29PM (#28295791)
Refused to work on what way?
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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by Aspos on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @08:46PM (#28296839)
There was a dialog window with a error message and a [Continue] button which did nothing.
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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by brokenmachine on Thursday August 26, 2021 @01:17AM (#28310979)
Wow, that's terrible.

I only know about LGs but they have a service remote that you can use to change the region. Maybe Samsung has a similar thing?

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by beebeepka on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @02:32PM (#28305175)
Unbelievable. Not even as a monitor?
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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by progman32 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:02PM (#28292643)
How did it know?
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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by Aspos on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:30PM (#28292957)
I guess it picked up my ip address.
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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by sudosysgen on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:55PM (#28294088)
Might have picked it up from the SSID.
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