Remember when your TV didn't require an internet connection? Or the days when you had to plug something in to watch a movie ...

Smart TVs are just dumb TVs with a computer and a network connection, right? In a variation of rule 34, if it has a computer in it, someone will hack it. When [smarttvhacker] bought a Sony 48 inch ...

And as my colleague Tony Villas-Boas points out, this isn't only a solution for old, "dumb" TVs - adding a cheap streaming dongle to a smart TV can help circumvent older systems that don't support ...

If you are concerned about this possibility, one option of course is to never connect your TV set to the internet. But in that case, it might be better to just buy a “dumb” television set instead.

These little software programs have become so important to our TV viewing habits that many of us have learned how to turn our dumb TVs into smart TVs so we can use streaming apps like HBO Max ...