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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by loonster on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:53PM (#28297880)
Eventually they will all likely have cellular modems.
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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by TedDoesntTalk on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:54AM (#28298172)
But if you are using an external video source and the tv as a dumb display via hdmi, what is that cellular modem going to transmit? Screenshots?
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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by vages on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:25AM (#28298317)
The TVs track the content you’re watching by sampling a subset of the pixels. So yes.
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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by donmcronald on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @02:38AM (#28298618)
Wow. I never knew about that. It’s called ACR (automatic content recognition).
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