[koolba]

> Can't I just get a nice OLED smart TV and NEVER connect it to the internet?

Until they start shipping wideband chips in them. Make sure your helpful in-laws don’t connect it either.

[chgs]

Connect it but block traffic at the firewall. Or intercept it all. Traffic shape it, MITM it, etc.

The biggest concern to me is built in 5g etc.

[3eb7988a1663]

I could imagine a future TV requires phoning home every 30 days or else it stops functioning. Single network source for both the "license" check + the ad network so as to simple deny rules.

[reginald78]

Yes, of course it will have a grace period (of similar length to the store return period) before it starts up. This will all be buried in the EULA you didn't read.

[orev]

I would bet “similar length + 7 days” so you won’t know about the requirement until after you can’t return it.