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I don't understand why you were down-voted. I agree with you. That's what I did, I just don't allow my "Smart TV" to connect to the internet, and now it's "dumb". Am I missing something? Who cares if it's smart or not, if it has no connection to the internet, it's always "dumb."

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There's another comment above that states that you have no idea if the TV isn't trying to connect to open WiFis, or even use acoustic channels to talk to an app on your phone or smart speaker.

Sounds paranoid, but so did everything else until now.

HDMI v1.4 includes Ethernet, so it is theoretically possible for a smart TV to connect to an internet-connected HDMI device and still get out to the internet, or vice versa. But nobody has ever implemented it commercially, so this will probably never be a real attack.

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