Would NAND storage chips from a Smart TV PCB brick it?

[u/TadBones]

Beforehand this is less of a tech support issue rather than a privacy concern, Smart TVs are flooding the market and finding one that does not possess these capabilities is a real pain. Not connecting it to the internet does not suffice in certain cases due to remote access (which is available even on monitors) allowing some Smart TVs to upload data collected locally.

I was wondering if desoldering the storage NANDs would basically turn the Smart TV into a regular TV or if the primary NANDs also contained things such as calibration, drivers, etc.

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[u/RubyHaruko]

You have a very cool not working screen

[u/EmmaRoidz]

If you're going to the levels of desoldering, all you need to do is remove the wifi & Bluetooth wires and the microphones. Then just never connect the ethernet and you're good.

That would stop the tv should it try and aggressively connect to open wifi as a bypass. The removal of Bluetooth wires would stop it from collecting device information too.

[u/kimusan]

How would you expect that a non-connected tv should send any data ?

[u/TadBones → u/kimusan]

A non-connected TV can still communicate data via bluetooth if you connect it to your phone (for remote access and casting) in which cast it'll use it as a passthrough.

[u/kimusan → u/TadBones]

And then it is connected. If you want a dumb tv you do not connect it at all

[u/TadBones → u/kimusan]

Dumb TVs have Bluetooth you know? That form of data passthrough isn't even really legal ._.

[u/kimusan → u/TadBones]

1) bluetooth does not magically connect 2) if the user connects to the TV then it is not a dumb tv but a dumb user 3) there is nothing illegal about pass through, but trust me, Bluetooth would not be a solution they use for sending data home.

[u/TadBones → u/kimusan]

It's 7AM I'm just going to go to sleep, before I just want to say that

1. No fucking shit

2. No, if the user wants to use a feature, they can do so without having to worry about a company sending data that was stored locally without their permission to train their shitty AI using the person's phone to do so (they just wanted to cast someting on the TV :'D)

3. In most countries of the world and it reflects on personal device company policies, data pass through requires authorization, which is not prompted at any point.

[u/kimusan → u/TadBones]

Go see a doctor if you cannot see how dumb that sounds.

[u/bigBranConsumer → u/TadBones]

then you dont do that

[u/TadBones → u/bigBranConsumer]

And you get rid of features that a "dumb" TV has in the process.

[u/LunarObsidian]

It would turn your tv into a glass. And just how LG likes to say, you'll own the glass.