<story><title>Smart-TV blocklist for Pi-Hole</title><url>https://perflyst.github.io/PiHoleBlocklist/SmartTV.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Flameancer</author><text>Wait, so you&amp;#x27;re saying that DRM has become so ingrained in modern tech that if I wanted to connect a firestick to a Dumb Display(No electronics other than to drive the display), if that Display doesn&amp;#x27;t have DRM functionality then the app won&amp;#x27;t load or play content even though the firetv has the DRM?</text></item><item><author>giantrobot</author><text>They don&amp;#x27;t always support the DRM apps want for 4K streaming.</text></item><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>You can buy them, commercial displays, but they are... quite expensive.</text></item><item><author>confident_inept</author><text>I can always deny internet via MAC address, but a modern panel that just turns on instantly and works is the stuff of dreams.</text></item><item><author>the_snooze</author><text>&amp;gt;I would pay a premium for a TV with no internet connection.&lt;p&gt;I bought a Samsung QLED TV recently, and it works fine without an internet connection. I did give it an ethernet connection to grab firmware updates, and it downloaded a bunch of ads and crap to clutter the home screen. Luckily, unplugging the ethernet cord and factory-resetting the device got rid of the garbage and kept the updated firmware.</text></item><item><author>confident_inept</author><text>Praise be the folks that curate these lists. Even without a pi-hole you can plug these into any firewall for your brand(s).&lt;p&gt;More annoying is the 15 second &amp;quot;home menu&amp;quot; that pops up on my OLED every time it is turned on. I almost always forget to manually dismiss it before I set the remote down and there&amp;#x27;s no option I can find to disable it.&lt;p&gt;I would pay a premium for a TV with no internet connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dspillett</author><text>Yep, been that way for a while. I remember a couple of years ago Amazon Prime refusing to play HD on a PC made from parts bought from Amazon (well, the significant ones, definitely the GPU), on a dumb TV bought via Amazon, using an Amazon branded cable...&lt;p&gt;Content obtained via torrent played, and still does, at 1080 perfectly well though, if you are looking for a workaround. I currently pipe stuff to the TV from my media array via Kodi on a Pi.&lt;p&gt;(I do actually pay for Prime, though mainly for the delivery options, and Netflix, but still consume their content &amp;quot;my&amp;quot; way more often than not)</text></comment>
<story><title>Smart-TV blocklist for Pi-Hole</title><url>https://perflyst.github.io/PiHoleBlocklist/SmartTV.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Flameancer</author><text>Wait, so you&amp;#x27;re saying that DRM has become so ingrained in modern tech that if I wanted to connect a firestick to a Dumb Display(No electronics other than to drive the display), if that Display doesn&amp;#x27;t have DRM functionality then the app won&amp;#x27;t load or play content even though the firetv has the DRM?</text></item><item><author>giantrobot</author><text>They don&amp;#x27;t always support the DRM apps want for 4K streaming.</text></item><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>You can buy them, commercial displays, but they are... quite expensive.</text></item><item><author>confident_inept</author><text>I can always deny internet via MAC address, but a modern panel that just turns on instantly and works is the stuff of dreams.</text></item><item><author>the_snooze</author><text>&amp;gt;I would pay a premium for a TV with no internet connection.&lt;p&gt;I bought a Samsung QLED TV recently, and it works fine without an internet connection. I did give it an ethernet connection to grab firmware updates, and it downloaded a bunch of ads and crap to clutter the home screen. Luckily, unplugging the ethernet cord and factory-resetting the device got rid of the garbage and kept the updated firmware.</text></item><item><author>confident_inept</author><text>Praise be the folks that curate these lists. Even without a pi-hole you can plug these into any firewall for your brand(s).&lt;p&gt;More annoying is the 15 second &amp;quot;home menu&amp;quot; that pops up on my OLED every time it is turned on. I almost always forget to manually dismiss it before I set the remote down and there&amp;#x27;s no option I can find to disable it.&lt;p&gt;I would pay a premium for a TV with no internet connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>viccuad</author><text>Yes, that&amp;#x27;s their plan of 15 years, coming to fruition. Look at Mac support, Windows 11 needing TPM, etc.</text></comment>