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Vizio's CTO confirmed in 2019 that smart TV data harvesting subsidizes their prices: https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/7/18172397/airplay-2-homekit...
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If you're in the market for speakers, trying to find ones without "bluetooth" or "Alexa" support is just as difficult. I ended up buying speakers built for computers because they were simple and dumb and just played sound.
I don't quite follow the problems with having bluetooth support. Could you please elaborate?
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The device manufacturer will eat the cost of the 5G subscription, since it will likely be lower than the revenue generated from the harvested personal data.
How low can you get these ? Even at $5/month, that's $60... is a single user's data worth that much ?
I figured this was because they were collecting data on viewership habits. Each customer profile must have been worth $5 or more, based on the surcharge amount.
(The phone line was useful for other things too, like ordering PPV/on-demand/premium channels through the menus directly, as opposed to calling them in through a 1-800 number.)
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Sure. Assuming your voice assistant works first time. Otherwise the dialog would go a little more like this: Me OK Google mute Me> OK...Google....mute Me> OKGOOGLE mute G> Sorry, I don't understand Me> mute... Me> MUTE MUTE MUTE MUTE MUTE Me> OKGOOGLE MUTE G> What would you like to mute? Me> The TV Me> Mute the fucking TV Google Me> OKGOOGLE MUTE THE FUCKING TV G> Sorry, I don't understand Me> Fuck it. I should have…
I got into a very similar conversation with Chase's robo call the other day. Went like this: C: bla bla bla, if you want to speak to a representative say "representative". Me: representative C: sorry i couldn't understand, please chose an option or say representative to speak with one Me: re-pre-sen-ta-tive C: (same answer as before) Me: REPRESENTATIVE C: (same answer as before) Me: GO FUCK YOURSELF C: Ok, I'll call…
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My LG CX "just works". Turns on in seconds, all the apps work fine, and everything is integrated really well. Certainly beats having to juggle three or four other things to get all the same services and figure out how to get the HDR/Dolby Vision and 4K-ness working between them all.. I'd probably need an HDMI switch as well. Instead I have one device with update-able apps and it works flawlessly. The only thing I nee…
fair enough. I guess I don't have such high expectations regarding the multimedial experience. it seems a 30 to 40 inch display would be more than large enough for my home cinema activities (at the moment I'm actually using a 26 inch monitor). and soundwise I'm anyway wearing bluetooth ANC headphones. all connected my notebook.
If I wasn't really into movies though, then yes, I would just want the simplest thing.. HDR, OLED, etc. are all an expensive waste if you're not watching content aimed for them.
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I'm a bit worried about the TV having some kind of internal clock set in the factory configured to throw an undismissible prompt after a year or two because your firmware 'expired' and you need security updates to keep your internet connected device that is not connected to the internet safe. You won't know if the TV has such a feature until someone encounters it years after the device is first sold.
Couldn’t you just change the date back a few years in that case? Why do you need an accurate date on the TV?
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Great except for the fact that smart TVs connected to the Internet have all sorts of privacy concerns: * https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/01/fbi-smart-tv-security/ Samsung actually released a TV app to tell you what it's doing: * https://fortune.com/2020/01/18/samsung-smart-tv-data-privacy... Which is nice, in a way, but it'd be better if they just didn't. I'd be much more trusting of Apple TV being connected to the In…
As a bad alternative. By the smart TVs, add a Pihole to the network. Block port 53 if it isn’t from the Pihole and add an as list like the one below. It seems to work well. https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/blob/master/Smar...
Vizio's CTO confirmed in 2019 that smart TV data harvesting subsidizes their prices: https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/7/18172397/airplay-2-homekit...
The best thing about smart TV's is they are cheaper than otherwise and you can dumb them by not connecting them to wifi/internet. Just add in your own NUC running linux and you have the best of both worlds. Get a logitech mx ergo as the "remote control" and you're good to go.
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The best for who? This is a ridiculous take, nobody wants to roll their own TV UX except HN users looking for a weekend project. What usability / long-term reliability perk does your own software running on a RPI have over an Apple TV plugged into a dumb TV / monitor?
This comment is a part of why TV sucks so hard - ridiculous users. Everyone's idea of 'simple' is rather asinine, unimaginative. The latest Pis come practically preinstalled with everything, just have to load Kodi. But someone who has found 'their' solution i.e. some crap by Apple e.g. assumes this is how everything should be... And we all get stuck with crappy 'smart' TVs (or don't own one - I have survived 10+ year…
I’m really pleased the author called out the Apple TV as a device that lets you avoid ads. We tried to go cheap on another of our TVs and get an Amazon Fire Stick and in addition to it being not as smooth (combo of UX and speed) at the Apple TV, it had a good amount of ads all over the place. There’s lots of griping about the cost of an Apple TV 4k, but I’ll pay that extra $100 to avoid ads and not be tracked so exte…
I like the apple tv interface, but I really disliked the remote that ships with it. The touchpad like interface feels really awkward, i would lift it up the wrong way pretty much every time. I remember reading about an apple certified 3rd party remote that was more like a traditional tv remote but that was only sold in the european market for some reason. If they ever decide to switch back to a proper remote i'll tak…
But it being made out of glass. What where they thinking?! You know how I orient the Apple TV remote now? My fingers know where the broken glass is on it. Making that out of glass was so beyond a dumb idea that I can't begin to imagine what they were thinking.
The end result is, I love the Apple TV, but I don't know that I'll ever buy another one if the remote continues to be made of glass.