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by foepys 1926 days ago
Samsung is using bluetooth for their new remotes. Desolder the antenna and you cannot use the TV anymore.
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They probably use different antennas though so you could cut the cellular modems antenna connection without impacting the remotes.
Different antenna?
Smartphones only have one antenna as far as I know. Why should it be different for TVs?
The Xbox One S for example has two separate Mediatek radios. One for networking the other for the controller.

There's another option: Buy and hook up a dumb hdmi converter to the panel. Taobao has these (low latency, niche gamer market)

The Xbox is doing it that way because they need the lowest input latency possible for the controllers. Blocking the antenna for network operations delays the user input. A TV doesn't have that problem and certainly won't have two antennas.

We are effectively helpless against those tinier and tinier SoCs and the only option is not to buy.

Smartphones typically have four (or more) antennas. 2 for cell (main and diversity), one for wifi/bluetooth, one for GPS. Some phones compress that down to 2, but lose signal strength by doing so.