Comment by cientifico
12 years ago
The only possible way to fix this in some way, is having Open alternatives.
Will love that when you buy a tv, you buy just the monitor. Without the tunning hardware or the crappy ooss. Like when you do with projectors.
Then you buy any chromecast, raspberrypi, or something that you can hack.
I can see for 2014/15 having a lot of startups creating small devices to connect to monitors only that tune internet in the same way they tune digital-tv.
Once you have competition in that market, you can start thinking in security.
You can already do all of that if you want. It's not a 2014/15 thing, it's a 2011 thing.
There are a variety of USB-powered android-on-a-stick-with-hdmi solutions out there. You can also buy separate tv tuner boxes pretty cheap. And many tvs run some form of FOSS and are hackable/flashable already.
Sure, you or I can do that. But there is a large majority of the population who are unable to do that.