{"id":135513,"date":"2021-08-26T10:06:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T09:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=135513"},"modified":"2021-08-26T10:06:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T09:06:20","slug":"remote-lock-feature-found-on-samsung-tvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/tv\/remote-lock-feature-found-on-samsung-tvs\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote lock feature found on Samsung TVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Samsung can remotely\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/za\/samsung-supports-retailers-affected-by-looting-with-innovative-television-block-function?utm_source=narrativ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>disable<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0(effectively disable) its TVs.\u00a0According to the company, this feature &#8220;is already preinstalled on all Samsung TVs.&#8221;\u00a0For it to work, it is enough to connect the TV to the Internet, which happens sooner or later, because it is this connection that provides the lion&#8217;s share of all the attractive functions of SmartTV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>New opportunities came to light after the loss of a shipment of the company&#8217;s televisions during unrest from a warehouse in South Africa.\u00a0It was then that Samsung published information about the TV Block functionality.\u00a0The company noted that the feature will limit the incentive for third parties to steal or purchase stolen TVs.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_135515\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Remote-lock-feature-found-on-Samsung-TVs-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Remote-lock-feature-found-on-Samsung-TVs-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Remote-lock-feature-found-on-Samsung-TVs-1-843x474.jpg 843w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Remote-lock-feature-found-on-Samsung-TVs-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Remote-lock-feature-found-on-Samsung-TVs-1-366x206.jpg 366w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Remote-lock-feature-found-on-Samsung-TVs-1-750x422.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Remote lock feature found on Samsung TVs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>If the blocking occurred by mistake, it is very easy to cancel it.\u00a0The owner of such a TV set just needs to contact the seller (dealer) &#8211; preferably with documents confirming the purchase.\u00a0The seller will transfer this verified data to Samsung, where the status quo will be restored within 48 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung can remotely\u00a0disable\u00a0(effectively disable) its TVs.\u00a0According to the company, this feature &#8220;is already preinstalled on all Samsung TVs.&#8221;\u00a0For it to work, it is enough to connect the TV to the Internet, which happens sooner or later, because it is this connection that provides the lion&#8217;s share of all the attractive functions of SmartTV. New opportunities [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/tv\/remote-lock-feature-found-on-samsung-tvs\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10402,"featured_media":135514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[641],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-135513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}