TV with WiFi

Dave Darling said:

Hey I just picked up a new flat screen TV for my apartment, this is slick! It connects to my internet router via WiFi and I can now stream YouTube videos on my TV in my apartment! Both of my churches, Grace Chapel and Life Center, live-stream their services on YouTube so now if I ever miss church for any reason I can just bring up the service on my TV! I also have access to any worship music in the entire world for free! I also was just able to access the IHOP (International House of Prayer) prayer room live stream on my TV (they do 24/7 prayer and worship in their prayer room), I am now watching the live stream on my TV right now! If you ever get a new TV you should get one that has WiFi and you can do this too!

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Hi,
Questions...
Do you get regular TV too ?
How much does what you have cost ?
Do you have to pay for cable service too ?
My own cable/wifi has gone up to two hundred bucks a month, and I am going to have to delete the cable part soon.
It is too expensive !!!!!

Thanks for sharing, and I hope you didn't mind my reply to your other TV thread discussing accountability software. I listen to the International House of Prayer sometimes too, usually on my phone. I have personally visited IHOPKC three times in the past.

I'd be concerned about the TV being hacked and then showing stuff I didn't want to see.

Hope it works out.

All new TVs seem to be essentially oversized tablet computers and have WiFi capability. You connect ii to WiFi as you would any other WiFi device. Depending on the brand, you can access programs through apps or their own free channels. All of these are streaming. Keep in mind that in exchanged for free channels, you share viewing information with the TV manufacturer.

When you set it up, like all WiFi devices, it scans for available WiFi. To access a WiFi, if it's password protected, you enter that in order to connect. To be hacked, the mostly likely method would likely be to spoof the WiFi connection, but the hacker would also have to know the password, otherwise it wouldn't connect. Non-encrypted sources are more dicey and I'd think would be more likely to be spoofed or not legitimate to begin with.

This doesn't address streaming sources being hacked. Back in the 1970s, NBC's broadcast got hacked by a protestor, who appeared for a few seconds wearing a grotesque mask. Someone might could hack a streaming service, or even put on the wrong thing. The latter has happened even with regular broadcasting.