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I wonder how long it'll take before someone creates a mod kit that gives you an HDMI that goes straight to the screen / speakers.

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Those already exist. Look online for "universal scaler LVDS" boards. Available for pretty cheap from the usual far-East suppliers.

How does that work? You buy some Samsung smart tv and then you somehow use this board to bypass the “smart” and make it a dumb display?

Yes. They are sold as replacements for TVs whose original boards have failed, but are essentially a dumb TV board, with a tuner and often some media capabilities too.

There are even some "smart" ones now with (presumably more hackable) Android built in, if you want a little more than a dumb TV.

Example video of installing one in a Samsung (not English - unsurprisingly, most of these videos are from the Orient): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB08gp2dIjk

Old detailed review of one: http://web.archive.org/web/20190511065920/http://redlightgre...

and its discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24877363

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