Like when they "oops" tried to install rootkits on your PC when you put in one of their CDs or DVDs?
Pardon me if I won't give Sony any benefit of the doubt.
Sorry we got caught. -Sony
Twist. The "fix" update never comes!
I don't believe this. This is some beginner level mistake. You are working with kernel objects, but can't properly filter them? Yeah, right.
Sony's software team is pathetic, can't even code basic stuff right
Why didn't Philips TVs who also use Android TV have that problem?
Isn't SONY the same company in the late 90s that put out audio CDs that had a data track on them designed to break windows computers ability to rip the audio from compact disc violating the audio CD standard? And sold these discs with the audio CD logo despite breaking that standard?
I'm pretty sure that it is. That would explain my never purchasing any SONY products for several decades now.
To those with the conspiracy theories and in triggering mode, this does seems like a honest programming mistakes...
even the best of programmers make such mistakes, amateur as it is, as this mistake is less about 'technical expertise' and more about 'misconfiguration' error that doesn't throw up any error or warnings when being checked....it happens much more frequently than most know about it in all sorts of places and systems....
That may be even worse, actually. When I thought they were deliberately blocking Kodi, that sounded like a dick move, but it would be a deliberate thing with at least some kind of reasoning behind it. Now that it comes out that they're blocking any package with ko in the name because it might be a kernel object, that just screams massive incompetence.
So this is what happens when you let the office tea-boy moonlight as the "android tv team".
Even if this is an accident, it implies that their ongoing support for their tvs is going to be hopeless and that your money is probably better spent with a different brand.
But what about the blocking of movie files in 4k?
They are liars. Don't buy their products. Punish their arrogance.
It sounds like a mistake from what they've said.
But assuming it wasn't, that would be up there with the best backtracking excuse they could provide.