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

[glitterbomb@lemmy.world]

I'll reiterate that I'm in a half dozen living rooms every day, and most of them are senior citizens. I've been doing this for years. They all have smart TVs, whether they use the features or not.

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. Did you even read my comment?

They get suckered by the cheap TV in middle of the aisle at Walmart or Costco and buy three. You can't even go out and buy a TV that isn't a smart TV without specifically looking for it. They don't even know to begin to look for these things.

Do you think they're still on an old CRT with a VCR hooked up via RCA? They had to go down some weird upgrade rabbit hole that they still don't fully understand because they ended up with a DVD of some classic movie, went and got a DVD player only to find out they didn't have HDMI ports so now they had to go buy some garbage TV thats subsidized by advertising companies. Again, I've seen this exact scenario play out a hundred times.

The fact of the matter is that your fix reeks of 'I got mine' energy, and it doesn't fix anything. Large swaths of people will still get these ads in their faces and these companies won't stop. Quite the opposite, they'll keep looking for more ways to fuck their customers.

[dr_vindaloo@lemmy.ml]

Like what?

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

organize.

is a matter of pushing advertisement and privacy restrictions

[mindbleach@sh.itjust.works]

Why the fuck does your television have a home page?

Never give the TV the wifi password.

[wolflink@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[brrt@sh.itjust.works]

I know, I was just letting people know that this guys solution comes with downsides.

[cedara64@lemm.ee]

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...

[bananymous@lemmy.ml]

Is American football not merely a vehicle through which advertising can be pumped? You’d think the entire sport had been designed from the ground up for such a purpose.

Four seconds of action, six minutes of commercials….3.6 seconds of action, 47 replays, five minutes of commercials.

P.S. Smart TVs can eat shit and die.

[46_and_2@lemmy.world]

Plenty of 4k with HDR on Real Debrid. Or even better quality and bitrate ripped from BRs, in the open waters.

[dx1@lemmy.ml]

Not if they're baked into the system.

[dickarus@lemmy.world]

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.

[cybranm@feddit.nu]

LG TVs, at least three one I have, have a pretty good operating system. I've never seen an ad (yet)

[godnroc@lemmy.world]

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.

[yogthos@lemmy.ml]

It will be a dark day indeed when I allow my TV to connect to the internet. These things are glorified monitors.

[mac@lemm.ee]

Tangentally related, FUTO put a bad taste in my mouth when they were harassing the graphene is team https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113443396794247106

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

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.

[shasta@lemm.ee]

You're right, we should start putting ads on all monitors

[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.