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

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Post by mystraline »

kelvinjps10 wrote: post #149
mystraline wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

It's not the OS but the streamimg sites, like netflix and others are locked to 720p.

My point exactly.

Why would I pay to be abused and treated like a potential theif if I pay for services, but if I pirate I do get the best quality and experience?

If the company's paid experiences were top notch, I'd have stayed.

But it turns out 40TB, 20 cores, and an Intel Arc for high speed transcoding easily handles 200 shows, 3000 movies, and more. And the big upside? No more 'killed by Netflix' or trying to figure out what streaming platform has THIS show today.

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Post by swat535 »

jorvi wrote: post #70
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…

To be honest, this is part of why TVs can be offered for so cheap these days. Same reason really cheap phones are stuffed with bloatware. Luckily with TVs you can freeload: just never connect it to the internet and only apply updates via USB. Stick an Apple TV / Chromecast / console into it for playback. This might even become standard operating procedure considering Samsung is getting into the ad game, and LG and So…

I think it’s only a matter of time until TVs refusing to work without internet or randomly interrupting your watching experience to ask you to connect to the internet. Heck, they can even learn from Microsoft now and demand a Vizio account, iPhone apps, etc.

Additionally they could start producing them without HDMI or other ports to prevent Apple TV or other similar devices from connecting.

What I’m trying to say is that corporate greed is limitless and the only thing that can prevent abuse will be strict regulations at the end of day.

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Post by i_am_jl »

distances wrote: post #208
PeterStuer wrote: post #197

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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).

East Coast US here, I can bring my own cable modem with any cable ISP I have had in the past 10 years.

I imagine fiber is a different story.

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Post by sshine »

ffsm8 wrote: post #109
jasinjames wrote: post #87

If you have a "smart" TV you'd like to avoid connecting to the internet for reasons like this, you can try disconnecting the wireless module entirely. I had a Sony Bravia TV I didn't trust, and after popping off the back I disconnected the wireless module's ribbon cable. The android-TV OS handled it gracefully, and now I don't have to worry about it attempting to smuggle data through any other WLANs in my apartment b…

I have an 6 yo LG OLED and bought a Xbox series x on release. I've had the firmware update disabled too, because I couldn't think of a reason why I would want it to update. I'm not using it as a smart device after all. Well, when I got the Xbox, it worked. But a few months after, it wouldn't receive any signal on my TV. After some googling, it turned out that the Xbox had a firmware update which now made them incompa…

I avoided firmware updates on my Samsung TV and removed as many built-in apps as possible. It used to start in quiet mode looking for a source. Then my renter updated the firmware because of a popup. Now I’m forced to start one of the commercial flow tv channels. Somehow I’m allowed to play the same episode of Baywatch, progressing 10-15 seconds before I start whatever app I actually want to use. David Hasselhoff hasn’t left the beach yet.

This is because some idiot introduced KPIs like “minutes streamed”. Can’t you just be a dumb device?

I imagine that in ten years, every electric appliance is infested with chatbot-level sentience and constantly wants to engage in conversation. EU will introduce laws that force electronics to STFU.

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Post by ethbr1 »

torh wrote: post #177
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,…

I bought a Philips many years ago, and it was perfect until an update suddenly gave me a lot of crap (ads) on the home screen. Ironically they also provided a button where I could "adjust what you see on the home screen", but it turned out I could only add more crap. Not take anything away. It's annoying, because it is not the same product I bought. It's worse.

Allowing consumer devices to connect to the internet does users more harm than good these days.

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Post by tester756 »

zahlman wrote: post #64
ninjin wrote: post #4

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Sure seems like a "wonderful" company. Their Wikipedia page lists the personal data collection lawsuit and them also likely being GPL violators at that with a court date in September this year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizio#Legal_issues

All that plus they expect to run JavaScript on my computer to show any of this page content.

That's actually normal

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Post by mlinhares »

koolba wrote: post #55
mlinhares wrote: post #14

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All TVs at home are blocked by MAC on the wifi router, so there's definitely a way to turn off this bullshit.

Why is it on the network at all if it’s blocked?

They’re not but they were in the past so who knows if they kept the password.

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Post by mlinhares »

kulahan wrote: post #32
mlinhares wrote: post #14

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All TVs at home are blocked by MAC on the wifi router, so there's definitely a way to turn off this bullshit.

Out of curiosity, do you simply not use streaming services, or do you get them on the TV some other way?

Apple TV.

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Post by banqjls »

donnachangstein wrote: post #186
42772827 wrote: post #173

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>What is the problem? Consent. The user didn’t consent to the feature, and now is expected to opt-OUT

Unlikely. Every Smart TV I've used requires you to agree to a EULA before any "smart" features are available.

I’d be surprised if you could even use a smart TV at all without agreeing to an EULA.

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Post by bloopernova »

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…

We need a FairTV, like Fairphone etc.
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