• @CeeBee
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    31 year ago

    They make it hard to activate the TV without joining a network.

    Last I checked it was mainly Samsung that did this. I’ve been buying 4K TVs as a monitor for about a decade now. I tried to upgrade to Samsung 42" a few years ago. After a couple hours of trying with no luck, I looked it up online and found people complaining about the same thing. The model I purchased had zero way of being used without first connecting it to the internet. Turns out that TV was one of the models that Samsung could remotely brick. I returned it immediately after.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        I have two Samsung TVs and they work fine, I don’t use the smart interface aspect at all (though I did let them connect to the Internet as controlling them with my phone via the app is nifty sometimes) but I use one for my PC and the other for a Nvidia Shield TV.

        Not sure why Samsung would remotely brick your tv, but once you set it up I don’t think you need WiFi anymore