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My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened?

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Re: My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened?

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Post by jononor »

exe34 wrote: post #183
NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #153

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> I don’t know how much longer that will be possible with how cheap 5G is getting. Sooner or later they’ll be able to install a $10 part and make a deal with wireless carriers as backhaul for unconnected TVs. I had a really snarky reply to this, about how I'd just crack it open and remove the sim card, warranty be damned. Then I realized that even sim cards are going away, that's all done in software on the latest ph…

it has to have some kind of modem/antenna that you can cauterise.

But the TV functionality does not have to work if one does that? We should really have laws that makes it illegal to not function without connectivity.

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Post by porridgeraisin »

mystraline wrote: post #99
3eb7988a1663 wrote: post #47

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I believe a Roku does the same kind of TV fingerprinting, and probably so do the other streaming hardware devices. So, not sure there is any relief anywhere? You can run your own linux HPC, but those get locked to 720p quality.

> You can run your own linux HPC, but those get locked to 720p quality. That is demonstrably not true. If you run Jellyfin and pirate using thepiratebay and yandex searches, you can get 4k 7.1 audio shows.

Come on, they are obviously talking about streaming services. Everybody knows you can pirate anything at any quality.

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Post by Ringz »

foobarchu wrote: post #113
like_any_other wrote: post #103

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> To be honest, this is part of why TVs can be offered for so cheap these days I spent $3,000 on a Samsung Smart TV -- and all I got were ads and unwanted content - https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/i-s... It'll be a cold day in hell when I believe corporate lies that they're doing all of this for my benefit. Especially when they neither clearly disclose all the ads and spying before purchase,…

Also when they add these "features" to TVs that were purchased without them. Like how would it be received if the builder of your house could come in and put up ad murals on your walls without asking? Would we accept "it subsidizes costs" as an answer?

If I were in real estate, I’d be grateful for this idea right now.

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Post by deutschepost »

cma wrote: post #192
barotalomey wrote: post #171

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> when it turned out they were monitoring your watching habit I think every single smart tv manufacturer does this today. At least I know LG, Samsung, Sony, Amazon, Philips, Sharp and Vizio does. Since your smart TV is on your same domestic IP, there's a market for getting data on your watching habits to combine with your browser habits collected elsewhere. The advertisers know more about you by now than you do. That…

AppleTV is full of ads in its app store, is there any streaming device where it doesn't track you and doesn't put ads over your search intent?

Comparing full screen ads on systems like smart TVs with the ads you get on Apple TV seems like a long shot.

The time you spend installing apps is minuscule compared to using them. And after that it is Netflix or google tracking you. Not Apple.

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Post by anal_reactor »

gloxkiqcza wrote: post #193
anal_reactor wrote: post #180

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I connect my TV because the remote doesn't have a button for changing brightness, but there's a PC app for that

TVs should have brightness controls the same way they have volume controls on remotes. It’s great having a >1000 nits display, just like it’s great having a 500W subwoofer, but it doesn’t mean I want to blast it full power all the time and changing it shouldn’t require digging into slow menus. What’s the PC app please?

My dad's old Sanyo from early 90's did have brightness control buttons.

https://github.com/JPersson77/LGTVCompanion

I have a few extra buttons on my gayming keyboard that I pretty much never use, so I assigned three of them to a script that uses the above app to change brightness between 30/50/100.

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Post by distances »

PeterStuer wrote: post #197
throwup238 wrote: post #91

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I don’t know how much longer that will be possible with how cheap 5G is getting. Sooner or later they’ll be able to install a $10 part and make a deal with wireless carriers as backhaul for unconnected TVs. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone has already made a deal with Spectrum or XFinity to use those open wifi networks that are open to customers via their account signin. The best solution is commercial displays but…

Adding 5G today increases the BOM by 10$-30$ in volume production. Keep in mind that the tv already has ethernet and wifi to ISP controlled networks. Basically almost every consumer ISP offer mandatory includes an ISP managed gateway, that can pre-certify your appliances or operate hidden ssid networks or "public" wifi access point to the ISP's network. So "smart" appliance operators only need deals with a few big IS…

> Basically almost every consumer ISP offer mandatory includes an ISP managed gateway

Is that really true? I never thought Internet subscriptions would require use of ISP's own device. I for sure have been using my own DSL modem/router/wlan device for my own connections (EU).

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Post by kotaKat »

pmags wrote: post #2

I seem to recall that Vizio was added to my "do not buy" list quite a long time ago, when it turned out they were monitoring your watching habit ( https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/7/14527360/vizio-smart-tv-tr... ). This seems to be more of the same I guess. Choice text from the link above: Q: Why did I see an ad in Scenic Mode? A: After Scenic Mode launches to full screen, you may see ads. We offer free, scenic conten…

Bonus points: users are reporting that the ads it starts playing include political nonsense.

"I left the tv idle while I went to the other room to play with my dog. After about a half an hour, I started hearing Kristi Noem praising Trump and telling immigrants to get out of America, over and over.

I went in to check, and caught this video looping 3 more times before it went back to the nature clips."

https://old.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/1jkwcbx/if...

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Post by b112 »

vitus wrote: post #94
leereeves wrote: post #50

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I feel like ads are taking over everything. I fear the world will soon resemble Minority Report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXJ_obaiYQ

Soon? Sure, we don't have billboards that scan the biometrics of whoever's walking past in order to deliver customized ads, but instead we have conditioned everyone to glue themselves to their own personal miniaturized billboards.

Google via ASOP didn't set up wifi and Bluetooth randomization to help you remain anonymous as you walk down the street.

Instead they do so, so that they'd be the broker for that info. It's trivial to get that static info via apps, build a database, and setup scanners.

However Google has all randomized identifiers, and can link you to the same for the right price. I wonder how much they make on this front.

Knowing Google it's probably just stats, eg age, income, schooling, upcoming and past purchases, etc.

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