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LG has announced its TV lineup in the lead-up to the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week. As in other recent years, the company has split its lineup between LCD and OLED models, and the OLED models are generally the most interesting. This year, LG's OLEDs and certain high-end LCD TVs will support HDMI 2.1, allowing them to display 4K content at 120Hz over HDMI.
HDMI 2.1 is also relevant for the emerging 8K TV category, as the previous version of HDMI only allowed 8K at 30 frames per second (fps). LG will introduce two 8K TVs—the 88-inch Z9 OLED TV and the 75-inch SM99 LCD TV—that can handle 60Hz content at the full 8K resolution over HDMI. Samsung announced its first mass-market 8K TV in late 2018, and it was limited to 30Hz. Granted, there is virtually no 60Hz 8K content available in most markets, and very little 120Hz 4K content. But that could change as TVs like these come to market.
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Samsung's 2019 TVs to support Apple iTunes, AirPlay 2
Samsung and Apple are making nice -- at least when it comes to video.
Samsung's on Sunday said its 2019 line of smart TVs will offer support for iTunes movie and TV shows beginning this spring. The launch could coincide with the expected unveiling of Apple's long-rumored video streaming service, which is expected to make an appearance early this year.
The iTunes support will allow Samsung TV owners in more than 100 countries to access their iTunes library or buy and rent iTunes video content through their TVs. The support marks the first time iTunes movies and TV shows are being made available on a streaming video device that isn't made by Apple or isn't a PC. The capability will also be made available to 2018 models through a firmware update, Samsung said.
(Score: 3, Funny) by everdred on Monday January 07 2019, @07:28PM (3 children)
Yep, this is what I was going to say... and what I recently did with my new "smart" TV.
I connected to the internet just to check for system updates and planned to shut off WiFi afterwards. I found that my TV in particular doesn't give you a way to shut off WiFi (or to remove all WiFi connections — it forces you to keep one) once you've connected one, but fortunately the "switch" was just a factory reset away.
Another such, less drastic solution, would have been changing my WiFi password. On second thought, that's probably more drastic.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @09:12PM (2 children)
I don't trust it if it has any type of radio. How do you know its not connecting somehow?
(Score: 2) by arslan on Tuesday January 08 2019, @12:53AM
Wrap some tinfoil over it?... or maybe block it at your router, change your wpa key, etc. If it has a camera, put some duct tape or pokemon stickers over it, etc. It is ironic though, that these are paid features that we have to then disable...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @04:47PM
What about HDMI-CEC? There are a lot of other nasty ways for bidirectional communication to your 'smart' TV to take place.
Even scarier, the 'dumb' TVs now are STILL running linux, meaning that there are vectors to attack, spy, etc even if your TV is 'dumb', they are just not as obvious thanks to the alternative technologies in use. Technologies even most techies haven't heard or thought about.
Personally I've just taken to using VGA connectors until I finally upgrade to 2160p which resolves both DRM and bidirectional communications issues. In face the only concern left is identifying values in the EDID. Combined with usb devices, video card, cpu, motherboard, and hard disks, you are probably leaking far more 'irrefutable proof' of your computer identity than you would like, not including if your smart tv/monitor is spying on you as well.