Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo...
by thayne on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:16PM
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> Is there reason to believe that it won't work? The "smart" TV I have hasn't been connected to wifi for years and still works.
I've heard of some tvs that work that way, rn it is the exception rather than the rule, but there is an incentive for tv makers to move in that direction.
> If you use it as a dumb TV from day 1 I can't imagine why it would randomly break later.
Smart tvs have inherently more complicated electronics, and that means more things to break. If you don't use the smart features it might be less likely for those components to break, but unless the designers were careful to sufficiently isolate the smart components, it still increases the chances of breakage.
> That's seems to be more of a theoretical concern than something that's actually happening right now.
For TVs maybe, but it is already the case for other "smart" devices like thermostats.
I've heard of some tvs that work that way, rn it is the exception rather than the rule, but there is an incentive for tv makers to move in that direction.
> If you use it as a dumb TV from day 1 I can't imagine why it would randomly break later.
Smart tvs have inherently more complicated electronics, and that means more things to break. If you don't use the smart features it might be less likely for those components to break, but unless the designers were careful to sufficiently isolate the smart components, it still increases the chances of breakage.
> That's seems to be more of a theoretical concern than something that's actually happening right now.
For TVs maybe, but it is already the case for other "smart" devices like thermostats.