Why not add a small button of C4 explosive to each unit and have it go out with a bang?
Huh. Great counter to all those TV’s heisted in BLM riots.
Love ta see Samsung brick every f’n one of ‘em & let the dindunuffins bark at the f’n moon.
Wonder if your TV got stolen if you could ring up Samsung and have ‘em brick it.
“You can remotely brick my TV? Will definitely not buy Samsung again, and will keep my current TV offline too,” read one such reply.”
Some comments:
1. If Samsung can remotely brick your TV, that means the government can do the same to your TV. If that doesn’t make sense to you, then you’re simply a mindless libertarian who doesn’t understand how big business and government work directly together (but you might better ‘get it’ when your ‘private’ company and all other employment options force you to vax).
2. If you think running away from Samsung to a different company will change things - sorry, if one is doing it, so are the rest, with the only difference being how much they brag about it.
3. Another example is the Jan 6th protesters. Does one really think that if Verizon is sharing location data of their customers with government, but without demanding a warrant, that T-Mobile, AT&T, and Apple aren’t doing the same? Seriously? I hear comments like “Well, that’s it, I’m not using Verizon”.
4. Don’t be surprised if that ‘bricking’ feature involves connecting to the Internet independently of your server, such as through cell phone towers. That’s certainly how I’d design it.
“Samsung’s ability to remotely disable all of its customers’ TVs is only one facet of the ongoing debate around company control over internet-of-things gadgets.”
Anyone with a ‘smart’ thermostat will soon find out that they only have control of their home’s temperature as long as the government permits that - and in Texas, people already starting getting a taste of that in the June heat wave.
What happened to those “smart TVs” from about a decade (or so) ago that had hidden cameras in the center of the screen?
(weren’t those also Samsung?)
After having read the press release, I'm going to have to turn it on today, disconnect it from the Interwebs to disable the "smart" features and turn it back off again.
#NeverBuyingAnotherTVAnyway
How long before they get in trouble for being racist? Why shouldn’t looters be able to enjoy the stuff they steal?
We were going to replace out TVs with smart ones. We still don't have one. Now we won't.
As I do not own a TV, smart or otherwise this doesn’t affect me. However the stated function does seem like it is a little draconian.
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Part of the “You’re not going to own anything and you are going to like it” future.
I guess this would be an issue if...our Samsung widescreen hadn’t developed a black spot the size of a basketball in the middle of the screen. Luckily, we had a warranty thru Sam’s Club...and it was replaced, free of charge, with an LG. Delivered directly to the house. Gotta say..the Samsung was a great TV, but the LG is better.
OK, I’ll say it - That’s racist...
Then connect it to a computer/laptop as a monitor or put up an antenna.
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits.
All TVs are made in China in the same factories, so they would all have this ability.
You no longer have to be schizophrenic to believe your TV is watching you.
Once upon a time, car radios were a hot item until technology stepped in and made them more difficult to reuse.
