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

[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.

[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.