Knackered Euro server turns Panasonic smart TVs into dumb TVs
Found on The Register on Wednesday, 09 March 2016
The TVs phone home across the internet to Pana's backend systems – such as mhc-xpana-eu.myhomescreen.tv – and if they can't reach the machines, the TVs assume the network is down. That totally stuns the TVs' software, and leaves people unable to start up installed apps, we're told.
"They've also cocked the code up, as it assumes if it can't talk to that server that the entire network is unavailable and reports a network error."
Be prepared to hear many many more similar stories when world and dog has to be connected to the Internet.