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		teacup50 on Jan 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ransomware Spreading onto Smart TVs, Is a Pain to ... > The fact that's completely impossible to buy a dumb TV anymore There's still a commercial/industrial market segment that manufacturers target (digital signage, hospitality/hospital TV systems, etc). The TVs produced for those segments are either dumb, or give the owner control over the device.

brians on Jan 7, 2017 [–]

Those typically don't have tuners, but in the age of the cable box that hardly matters.

megablast on Jan 8, 2017 | [–]

If you don't mind paying for shitty tv, then yeah, I guess.

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