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Anon buys a TV without researching (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

I'm getting from context that this is a smart tv displaying an advertisement, but what the fuck is it even advertising here? A baseball game? Why is the countdown to-the-hour? Why does the player look like a drawing instead of a photo? Why is it specifically that player and not just 'dodgers game tomorrow!"..? It almost looks as if it's an in-game notification for an MLB-Manager game.

If it were a burger-king commercial I'd be upset, but the inscrutability of this as an ad at all actually infuriates me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

Is there an open-source version of Google TV and similar smart TV software? I feel like i read about one quite recently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

when i order a screen in asia to germany i pay a lot less taxes than when ordering a tv or smarttv. so buying a smartTV is kinda dumb anyways.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I just bought this dumb tv. Couldn't be happier.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CJV6722

It's not a good tv, but it's the biggest one I could fit on my desk and it has absolutely no "smart" features.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Just don’t connect smart TVs to the internet. That’s all you have to (not) do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

My TCL TV flashes a little ring light constantly if it doesn't have an internet connection. The best part is the LED is part of the IR receiver, so if you cover it up your remote stops working. I've dimmed it as much as possible through the hidden service menus, but the option to remove it was apparently removed in a firmware update at some point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

Open it up and replace it with a resistor, can't blink if it doesn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I think I saw a review of the Amazon fire TV and they literally lock controls and tell you some basic af features are locked behind an Amazon account registration or login

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I have an Amazon fire TV.

It is not connected to anything, and everything works fine. I just hooked up my shield to it and use that, but basic tv functions (settings and whatnot) work just fine without being logged in.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Too much of a gamble. What if someone already did once and it uses the cached ads? What if they have some preloaded?

Better financially support products that never have ads and that way demonstrate demand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

They put barely functional processors in these things. A new smart tv that isn’t connected to the internet is not going to come cached with ads.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

From what I have heard, this is not true for all brands. Some won't work without being connected. Shouldn't be legal, but here we are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

from what I have heard

Where?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

In a different thread here on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

Is the thread in here with you now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

I don't know what you're going through in your life, but I wish you all the best. Just wanted to pass on some information I thought was relevant.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. I’ve heard some brands will search for nearby devices of the same brands that are already connected to the internet so that even if YOU didn’t connect the TV to WiFi, it still calls home/gets ads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Ok now I know yall are just making shit up.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If that's real, then it's full refund or terrorism upon both the vendor and manufacturer.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

~~or~~ and

[–] [email protected] 18 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Anybody else have a weird level of fixation on the baseball player and the game character being in the same pose? Like, "maybe it's watching" kind of fixation?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 17 hours ago

I'd like to be exactly this high, please

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago (2 children)

First rule of smart TVs: if you really have to buy a smart TV, then never connect it to the internet!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

I lobotomized our TV after making the mistake of connecting it to the internet when we first got it.

The ads slowed down the menu to switch sources so much it actually angered me. No more internet for you, you get to be a dumb tv forever now.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

I've read at some other post that some smart TVs won't work at all if you don't connect it to the internet.

Read with caution, I haven't verified this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Amazon fire TV requires an Amazon account to use basic features and they intentionally tell you they lock "certain" features

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Some of them use wifi for the remote too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

Back to the store it goes then

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I've also heard people say that they'll automatically connect to any open wifi networks. People make up a lot of stuff. Just don't tell your display device how to send any 1s or 0s to any server outside your home, and you'll be fine