The home page of my $1700 smart TV has a full page ad about watching ads
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I haven't had a living grandmother in... I don't even know how many years at this point.
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Like what?
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Buy a smart TV box like Apple TV or Nvidia Shield. You can get full quality streaming with some ads but not nearly as bad as the software that’s built into some of these TVs.
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I know, I was just letting people know that this guys solution comes with downsides.
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Don't buy a TV anymore. Seriously though with the direction things have been going in the "tech world" for the last couple years (maybe even decade) it is probably better to start adjusting to some level of digital minimalism. For some of us it will become a necessity for financial reasons anyway...
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Plenty of 4k with HDR on Real Debrid. Or even better quality and bitrate ripped from BRs, in the open waters.
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HDMI 2.1 can support 4k. Find a ship that doesn't sink. Voila. No ads. Zilch. Zero. Nada. No HDR? Better than a single second of an ad.
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I went to a game for the first time a few years ago. I recall the moment where everyone was sitting around and not doing anything because they were waiting for the commercials to finish. It felt like watching actors drop their characters the moment they step out of the spotlight.
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It will be a dark day indeed when I allow my TV to connect to the internet. These things are glorified monitors.
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Tangentally related, FUTO put a bad taste in my mouth when they were harassing the graphene is team https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113443396794247106
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It's come full circle.
Back in the early 00s, I invited my buddy over to watch the super bowl commercials. Neither one of us gave a damn whatsoever about football, put the commercials were always lit.
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You're right, we should start putting ads on all monitors
