Comment by rationalist
3 months ago
This would be quite the scandal if you can substantiate/document it.
People always say, "jUsT dO nOt CoNnEcT your TV to you WiFi" which is asinine.
People say that theoretically TVs can get an internet connection through HDMI, but apparently none are actually doing so.
The only solution I suggest is physically removing WiFi cards from the guts before turning on.
HDMI ethernet channel is a thing, though semi-obsolete. It's unusual for a PC graphics card to support it. Intel website suggests they don't support it: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
Why is not connecting your TV to wifi asinine? Generally works fine but I suppose there are rumors that some TVs scan for open networks and connect to them automatically.
> The only solution I suggest is physically removing WiFi cards from the guts before turning on.
It's going to be very unusual to find a TV using removable PC components like wifi cards. Another option is to connect it to your network but block it from the internet
Because it doesn't prevent anyone else from connecting your TV to any other WiFi (and apparently that actually happened to someone according to their comment in another HN thread).
> theoretically TVs can get an internet connection through HDMI
What?! How on earth would this work?
It was introduced in the HDMI 1.4 specification.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Version_1.4
HDMI Ethernet was never adopted or implemented on consumer devices.
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