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posted by mrpg on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the i-hate-shopping dept.

So one of my three year old kids smashed my 65" LED flatscreen with a die-cast model of the Atlantis shuttle. I was fine with this and was not planning on buying a replacement in any haste but my wife keeps complaining. Would prefer at least 65"+ and absolutely not a smart tv. What suggestions do you have, companies to avoid, etc. Help me SN, you are probably my only hope of not just buying another spysung.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @10:29PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @10:29PM (#625357)

    Anyway, yeah just don’t connect it to your network and use HDMI cables that are pre-1.4. Iirc you won’t get HDR, but the TV also won’t be able to get Ethernet over HDMI and circumvent your pseudo air gap.

    Can you explain this more?

    The HDMI cable specs have essentially never changed since the first version. However, the ARC and HEC (ethernet) features make use of a pin that was previously unused before HDMI 1.4, so it's possible some non-compliant cable assemblies could have left that pin disconnected and most people wouldn't have noticed.

    I've never even seen a device that supports HEC anyway, and both ends would have to implement it for it to work...

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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday January 21 2018, @05:58AM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Sunday January 21 2018, @05:58AM (#625535) Journal

    Thanks -- that's pretty gross - ethernet over video cable is certainly not designed for helping people even if it may have some marginally useful side cases.