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No problem, eventually tvs will come with SIM cards and cellular connectivity to phone home regardless of your choices.

Yes, look at 5G and the iot stuff they're adding.

It should be better, but I see it as dystopian

search for miot or mmtc

Then they'll have to glue it shut to keep me from opening it and disconnecting the cellular antenna.

It might refuse to work without a signal

Then I will return it as defective.

This is the sort of thing I researched before my recent purchase. The trick was to run the TV in "store" mode --- no internet connection required.

Agreed, some sort of activation required by phoning home. Makes me sad capitalism lead to this.