Smart TVs are great right? You'd think they'd be a great thing for a school right? teaching materials all stored on the network, streamed to the TV etc.
Well, kinda they are great, except for one very small but significant oversight by the TV manufacturers.
In our desire for comfort, mobile phone manufactures have started fitting IR Blasters to mobile phones. This means that there are mobile apps which turn the phone into an universal remote. At home this can be very convenient, but at school that now means that students are able to take control of the school TVs with very little effort.
Installing a Smart TV without any reasonable method of locking down the remote control is just asking for trouble.
So far I haven't found a TV with any kind of security feature to address this unauthorised IR usage problem.
Philips make some TVs which use bluetooth rather than infrared for remote control, but the price tag is not very "school friendly".
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