The home page of my $1700 smart TV has a full page ad about watching ads

[shasta@lemm.ee]

It'll be 4k if you install the windows app for the service or watch in Edge.

[gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com]

the age of the device put me off, it still runs android 11 as well apparently. I wouldnt want to buy one now and then a refresh comes out

[crossover@lemmy.world]

Use Infuse as your playback client. It will direct play AV1. However there is no hardware decoding support for it. But the processor is fast enough to do it in software.

Current gen iPhone chips do AV1 hardware decoding. And the AppleTV uses the same processor, just a few generations behind. The next AppleTV hardware refresh may add AV1 hardware support. But that’s just a guess.

[grapho@lemmy.ml]

This (and the ridiculous, eye gouging price) is why I'd never go to a UFC event. It's bad enough when I'm home and I have to go clean the kitchen or fold my laundry for 30 minutes if a fight finishes even slightly early, but having to stand around waiting for ads to finish on a PPV card would turn me into Ted Kaczynski

[alk@sh.itjust.works]

It's still the best streaming device hands down. There's not even any competition.

[shaggysnacks@lemmy.myserv.one]

Somewhere, an ad exec just stiff.

[yogthos@lemmy.ml]

[buddascrayon@lemmy.world]

I'll also reiterate that they flat out will not even use a TV sometimes because they're defeated by the smart TV features that prevent them from getting over to their Comcast box.

Yes I did read your comment and here you just proved my point. And my solution was not for old people. Point I was making in my comment was that old people already lost cause. They don't understand technology and therefore will not benefit from it. So yeah they get suckered into buying these TVs and then they never use them properly or they get somebody younger to set them up so that they can use either Netflix or Disney+ since those are the only things they know of to watch whatever programs they can pull up or they pay someone to get a cable box plugged in and surf like they did in the '80s, '90s, and early 2000s.

My "fix" is for younger people, twenties to '50s, who don't want to deal with the ad-pocalypse. I have been able to set it up multiple times with various sized computers right down to a Raspberry Pi. And yeah, of some ain't tech savvy enough to plug a computer into an HDMI port and use it to watch stuff on their TV, I have no sympathies. We live in a digital age and if you're younger than '50 years old and can't work a computer, you're dead out of luck when it comes to digital entertainment and you might as well get used to having ads shoved in your face the rest of your life.

[buddascrayon@lemmy.world]

Yeah all that bluster in Congress about TikTok collecting people's data and yet not one single privacy bill materialized anywhere. Not even from Democrats. It's almost like the privacy concerns were not even real.

[midaba@lemmy.ml]

LG is one of the worst. Only TVs with ROKU are worse for privacy concerns. ROKU, LG and Samsung make Google look good when it comes to invasion of privacy.

I've been against the idea of smart TVs from day one. A good panel will easily have a longer life than whatever smart box they shoe horn into TVs now. That's reason enough to avoid that trap.

Mark my words on this: on top of the privacy invasion Future smart TVs will be designed to slow down to the point of being unusable well before their panels wear out to force upgrades and prevent third party repairs.

[aeharding@vger.social]

Why the fuck does your television have a home page?

FLauncher is pretty great

[thebeesknees@lemmy.sdf.org]

This might depend on the version the OS is. I have an LG that's been great for years, then it got a ""fresh new look"" that featured a giant banner for "recommendations."

I had auto-updates off, too. Thankfully, they still had an option to revert to the previous menu - but who knows how long that'd stay an option? It pissed me off enough to finally setup AdGaurd Home on my home server.

Fun Fact: It's increased my phone's battery life by ~48 hours (excluding the rare occasion where its being actively used all day).

[tyler@programming.dev]

You’re talking about Streamyfin right? Yeah I’ve had so many issues with that. I just use infuse, but infuse is terrible for actually sorting and categorizing stuff. And it slows down massively with large libraries. I got to around 850 movies and it suddenly bogged down like crazy. Like, the Apple TV is super responsive still, but the app just has trouble loading each successive movie.

[tyler@programming.dev]

Isn’t that Android? Sorry, not touching Android unless it’s something like Calyx or Graphene or lineage. I’ll just build myself a pc to connect to my TV if I wanted to go anywhere near that.

Have you used an Apple TV or are you just claiming that the shield is better because you like customizing things more?

[thebeesknees@lemmy.sdf.org]

Not disagreeing, but at some point this won't be enough. Assuming companies aren't already, "offline" devices will get shipped with the ability to utilize unsecured networks and/or other nearby devices. Better hope any neighbors are privacy conscious too.*

(they're not)

[gullible@sh.itjust.works]

I’ve been recommending physically snipping radios, but that can cause issues if you don’t understand what you’re doing. Any chance you know whether it’s possible to simply delete drivers and backups on modern smart tvs? Mine is ancient, so I have no clue what they’re doing to y’all, nowadays.

[yournamehere@lemm.ee]

i dont know what you mean by baked in really. all services are packages i guess and a quick google search says stuff like that at least exist at some point, e.g.https://github.com/tutyamxx/androidtv-debloat-script

i wish op the best of luck to escape telemetry hell.