Terence EdenJan 6, 2024

People who rant about how terrible it is that you can't buy a non-Smart TV any more.

You know you don't have to plug the TV into the Internet, right?

I've got two. One acts as a big monitor for my laptop. The other one has a media player box & games console connected.

You're allowed to use a heavily subsidised device in a different manner from which it was intended.

Show threadAnthony Lee (Created Hey.Cafe)Jan 7, 2024
@Edent more and more of them give you no choice but to connect them, and some like the ones with Roku self connect to any open network near by automatically, I see this a lot from business free wifi portals catching Roku devices on networks I manage.
Show threadTerence EdenJan 7, 2024
@anthonylee
How so you know that the TV owner hasn't deliberately chosen the open network?
Show threadAnthony Lee (Created Hey.Cafe)
@Edent tvs where display tvs in a buisness, setup new mesh network with a open network attached to a portal that users needed to accept usage to be a guest, all Roku tvs in the building auto connected to this new network, had a new not used network name.
Jan 7, 2024 at 7:28amWeb
Show threadAnthony Lee (Created Hey.Cafe)Jan 7, 2024
@Edent first hand checked, I was the one who setup the network and had to go around and force the TVs to connect to a hidden network with no internet access as their kept hitting the guest network throwing non accepted client errors.
Show threadAnthony Lee (Created Hey.Cafe)Jan 7, 2024
@Edent could have been that specific tv brand doing it but it had embed Roku tv in it. I have had smart TVs where the picture is not calibrated and bad and requires you to connect to the network to update and get a better picture.