Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse

Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by fulafel on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @04:06PM (#28294236)

It's just a missing feature in your console, Ethernet over hdmi (hec) is a thing and who knows what you need to prevent this (hdmi firewall?)

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by iso1210 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @04:57PM (#28294911)

Convert HDMI to SDI and back, but you'll need a HDMI-to-SDI converter that ignores HDCP (i.e. either pages of forms explaining how you've got a legitimate reason for doing it and an expensive converter, or a cheap Chinese one)

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by crackercrews on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:49PM (#28297857)

If it ignores HDCP, doesn't that prevent you from using it to play Netflix and Amazon Prime content?

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by AlexAndScripts on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @04:17AM (#28299153)

Nope, it just strips the DRM. All of that work locking down devices, and it's trivially circumvented. Of course, desktop Linux is still not allowed to watch in high quality - that would compromise the DRM!

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by iso1210 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @05:20AM (#28299468)

These devices pretend to pay attention to HDCP, tell the tranmitting device "oh yes I'm good", but then ignore it.

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