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Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI

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Re: Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI

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Post by _3u10 »

MBCook wrote: post #161
_3u10 wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just get a TV that isn’t shitty. People act like it’s a clockwork orange and you’re forced to watch ads.

And when they all do it, then what? Every single inkjet printer is trash because they all adopted the same tactics. All the TV makers went to selling your advertising data. What makes you think they won’t all do this?

I’m a liberal, I live in North America, my cheap flights have ads, my cheap TVs has ads, my cheap coffee has ads. My cheap inkjet printer is too expensive.

I want everything for free or cheap, I’m surprised it sucks, I have no choice. I have no money because I pay too much taxes and my cheap house is too expensive.

There’s a whole world of non shitty products out there that you could buy if you weren’t cheap. Most of them are less expensive than the products you DO buy.

My barista trained in Italy, and doesn’t have a liberal arts degree. I pay less for cappuccino than a drip coffee in Starbucks it doesn’t have any ads on the cup.

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Post by _3u10 »

SanjayMehta wrote: post #196
MBCook wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And when they all do it, then what? Every single inkjet printer is trash because they all adopted the same tactics. All the TV makers went to selling your advertising data. What makes you think they won’t all do this?

I’m not sure which ink jet printers you’re referring to: HP and their infamous DRM? Brother and Epson have ink tank printers which take third party refills. From personal experience Brother is slightly more expensive upfront but much cheaper to run than HP.

I find brother is cheaper upfront but maybe I was comparing the wrong thing.

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Post by happymellon »

KingJulian wrote: post #246
happymellon wrote: post #213

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But then you don't have any of the big streaming services, so it's not really an alternative to Roku. You'll need to do a little more legwork to replace them.

> You'll need to do a little more legwork to replace them. That's true. You will need to install the applications by yourself. A bit of work but worth it, I think.

Are the desktop apps usable with a controller?

Last time I tried they didn't work well at all.

What I meant was getting a media server running.

Re: Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI

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Post by boudin »

iamjackg wrote: post #136
boudin wrote: post #133

I had to check what roku tv was, it seems it's just a cheap (android?) tv box.

Not Android: they run their own OS, they've been around since forever (they predate both Chromecasts and Android TV), and according to Wikipedia they are the "leading streaming TV platform in the US in terms of market share. The Roku OS also holds a noticeable 30.5% share of the global TV streaming hours". For a long, long time they used to be the "neutral" choice: while Amazon and Google were squabbling and removing…

Ah ok, thanks for the information. I had never heard of them. Their website didn't make that really clear, it looks like a random rebranded android based tv box.

Re: Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI

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Post by 4926394057 »

They’re clearly missing an opportunity here. My TV probably spends a whopping 20 hours a day turned off. Why settle for pumping out ads for the few moments it spends paused when there’s all that available screen time going wasted? How long before turning the TV “off” switches it to Billboard Mode?

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Post by HereIGoAgain »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #16

> When the media device pauses the media content, the display device can determine that a pause event has occurred and insert an ad shown on the display device. Hilarious. I love how all the streaming companies are hijacking the pause control now. Why do you think I hit pause? Pick one or more of the following: 1. I need to go to the bathroom. 2. I want to inspect the current frame more carefully. 3. I want to see an…

Number 02 is one of the major one i was thinking of. This shit is evil. I don't see them surviving long if they ever attempted to push this crap.

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Post by chgs »

codetrotter wrote: post #93
chgs wrote: post #57

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I’d rather just use SDI

Do you live in a broadcast studio? (Serious.)

No although I work in the (or on obs).

given how affordable blackmagic made SDI and how trivial it is to run some coax the trick is how to get a hdcp stripping hdmi to sdi converter.

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