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Unsmart a smart TV (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How standardized a lcd panels? Could I replace the controller in a smart TV with one of these HDMI to LCD controllers?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/375318342725__

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Seriously. Go back to the 90s, do this about anything, and Kevin mitnick will vanish from everybody's radar just about instantly.

Now we need to do this shit to fucking watch TV. I need complex filtering software, anonymization tools, and a signal bounced off three continents to watch a video of a cat climbing into a box. A video that was recorded five feet away from me.

If I want to do it on a TV, I need to start soldering and hope to fuck I don't touch the wrong capacitor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Jeff Geerling did a whole video about you can just use a professional display. It has the option to install a raspberry pi because it's meant to be a display for a store window. This would be a good alternative but $$$.

https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/products/displays/m551

Note: the reason TVs are cheap now is because they collect data about you. Your data is subsidizing the cost. So if that's the case how much money do they make off you that getting a non smart display costs 4k?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Less than 4k; I remember my last dumb TV cost like 700$.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

and a signal bounced off three continents to watch a video of a cat climbing into a box. A video that was recorded five feet away from me.

are you talking about some proprietary camera that only syncs to the cloud?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

No I'm talking about my roommates YouTube videos of their cat.