Calling names without understanding what’s actually going on is always a great start.
“Smart” seems to just mean internet connected. Basically all TV watching (at least in my experience) has moved to streaming, so you need a connection somewhere. Either TVs have it built in (and show you ads in the output selection menu – I’ve seen this) or you connect something else to it that streams content. The Fire TV stick was a cheap way to do this, Fire TVs are cheap TVs.
I’ve been using an Apple TV and capped the wifi connection of my TV, works great and no ads.
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From the article, it sounds like this affects people with a dumb TV who use some kind of hardware gizmo that Amazon sells to be a streaming endpoint.
I think that it’s really more linked with streaming services than with smart TVs.
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Calling names without understanding what’s actually going on is always a great start.
“Smart” seems to just mean internet connected. Basically all TV watching (at least in my experience) has moved to streaming, so you need a connection somewhere. Either TVs have it built in (and show you ads in the output selection menu – I’ve seen this) or you connect something else to it that streams content. The Fire TV stick was a cheap way to do this, Fire TVs are cheap TVs.
I’ve been using an Apple TV and capped the wifi connection of my TV, works great and no ads.