Hacker reverse engineers his Samsung TV and finds on-device AI listening for your dog and baby, watching what you watch, and borrowing your soundbar's mic if the TV doesn't have one. Then OpenAI banned him for reverse-engineering it.
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I don’t really think Amazon/Google/Roku have a ton of incentive to help TV manufacturers compete with them for user data, so the included or directly attached cable on most devices probably doesn’t have HEC support.
I would say that the lack of incentives (that we know of) would apply to USB connections too.
Of course, for Samsung to have code in their devices to help other Samsung devices not connected to the internet to work around that lack of connection has nowhere near the same "lack of incentives" barrier as there would be for different manufactures to cooperate in such a thing hence my extended post (which I wrote as I thought about the technical feasibility of doing so and figured out how easy it is and pondered on how exactly would I go around doing such a thing if I was Samsung and made and shipped the kind of devices Samsung does).
As I see it, Samsung phones are by far the devices more likely to be setup to allow other Samsung devices to "talk to the mothership" when the users have denied them Internet connection.