Samsung South Africa has announced that it has activated a TV Block Function on all Samsung TV sets stolen during the looting, violence and unrest in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng during July that saw TV sets stolen from Samsung warehouses.
Thinus Feirrera
It happens when you connect the TV to the Internet. Pretty simple to circumvent.
Making it harder to sell them.
Or more frustrating to buy, if you get one “for a real good price, no questions asked”.
One more reason never to let a TV emancipate from “show what the input source provides and don’t smart me”
While theft prevention might look like a good use case it leads to:
“You actually never own a Samsung TV, you merely look after it until Samsung decides otherwise ”
(Sorry Philippe Patek)