LG licenses tech for interpreting TV users’ feelings and convictions.
  • Gibibit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    They’ll have to pay for the cellular connection themselves because I’m not gonna enter my wifi password into the tv lol. Been using a pc hooked up to the screen for ages. Screw “smart tv” features, slow and inconvenient as hell.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The inconvenience creared by their greed. You buy a tv, a PC, internet and a netflix sub but you cant watch full (shite) resolution unless you are in a native app.

      Piracy is the way forward.

      • WetBeardHairs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Yeah that part blows ass. My solution for now is an appletv. They at least don’t shove ads down your throat and their main business models are not based on collecting user data for advertising or databroker purposes (looking at you, google).

      • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I have an lg tv that has never seen the internet. It runs on a shield with kodi. With that being said, fuck shield and their ads

  • eodur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I was describing this to my partner and she thought i said “LGBT”. Yes. The LGBTQ community created this technology and weaponized it. Next on Fox News.

  • FriendBesto@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I still have and will continue to purchase TVs for as long as I can. Not smartTVs.

    As a side note, I went to Best Buy and asked them about non-smartTVs. They literally said they had 2 models. A small, tiny TV and a larger TV which they did not have a model on the floor. They would have to bring it out or I would have to go the back.

  • FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I still use a dumb TV, and I will for as long as possible. I’ll never buy a new TV ever again. only used from Facebook. most stuff I only watch on my computer anyways.

      • AceofSpades@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        That is my solution as well for now. I bet TVs will start to come with cellular chips soon though.

        Does anyone make a living room sized Faraday cage?

  • FourWaveforms@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I got a Samsung TV a couple of years ago. I use it with a Roku. It’s not on my network. I’ll keep it until it stops working because I think eventually TVs will refuse to work without an Internet connection.

  • kipo@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Can we please ban electronic advertising already? And billboards? Society would be better off without them.

    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Buying a TV should be a one time cost. These companies trying to create a continuing income where none exists is just rampant greed. Don’t want to pay the cost of updating and distributing your software? The open source it and get back to making better TVs.

    • moopet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      If we ban people from “earning” over a certain amount, they’ll get round it through “gifts” or exchange in-kind or something, right? Same with ads. If we ban them, then product placement with plausible deniability will be rife, paid through essentially money-laundering methods, worse than it is now.

  • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Never connect your tv to WiFi

    Don’t buy connected anything

    Just buy things that do the thing you want.

    No consumer ever asked for a smart tv

  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Simple solution I use: Fuck television sets, get a computer monitor and basic speakers instead. A display should do only one thing and do it well.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      That would certainly be ideal, although there’s great difficulty in finding 50"+ monitors, and they cost a huge amount more

      • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I guess that would beg the question, how much is it worth to you pay extra to not have additional spyware in your home? Or as others have said in this thread, there is at least one brand of television that still sells dumb tvs.

  • 74 183.84@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Holy shit there were so many ads in that article that I just stopped reading. It sucks LG is going down this route. They make really nice displays but now I dont ever want to buy an LG tv if its spying on me to serve me these ‘better’ ads. Fuck advertising. Its turned into a complete monster

    • moopet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’s just the addition of “AI”. We’ve been doing the same thing for a long time. I used to work for an advertising data company over a decade ago, and they filtered all the ads for one of the big channels’ streaming services in exactly the same way just with regular algorithms rather than AI. It’s what would make ads for men’s razors appear in the middle of a soap opera at 11PM because it knew the user was a man getting home from the pub.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You can’t hardly even buy computer monitors without them anymore either. Every one of the higher end Samsung or LG monitors is starting to include “smart” bullshit.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Sounds like you need an ad blocker. I didn’t see any ads on the article except text links that were relevant to the story, which arguably aren’t ads.

  • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Echoes back to the Facebook leaker

    There’s no bar too low except that which receives continuous ceaseless push back against people who push things like this.

    There isn’t enough push back to matter. So the bar lowers.