Pretty soon we'll be seeing McDonald's product placement in the next shitty Lord of the Rings season.
My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks
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Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks
#32Would be good to know if this is actually true. From a comment in the thread: > Assuming that you tested that this happening only during commercials. When you google the issue, it seems like a lot of other people are saying that it unmutes in general after 5 seconds, which matches what happened to you from the video.
Why would a TV need to unmute itself after 5 seconds?
It wouldn't, but could do as a result of a bug that has nothing to do with trying to force you to listen to adverts. My Apple TV box, AVR and TV between them sometimes seem to get into a state where the sound is muted and whenever I unmute it, it unmutes and immediately mutes again. I have to reboot the Apple TV box to get the sound to stay on again. So this sort of thing does happen.
Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks
#33Would be good to know if this is actually true. From a comment in the thread: > Assuming that you tested that this happening only during commercials. When you google the issue, it seems like a lot of other people are saying that it unmutes in general after 5 seconds, which matches what happened to you from the video.
That's still not good. If I mute the TV, it shouldn't unmute itself. It should stay muted until I unmute it.
Or maybe until you turn it off and on again.
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#34Buying electronics from Amazon means getting ads -- and always in the most obnoxious way possible. I got a Kindle Oasis as a gift /w lockscreen ads, and it's unbelievable how annoying and embarrassing they are, and many are for AI-generated gibberish. And that's a Kindle. Now just imagine living with an Amazon TV...
Not to excuse the ads, but apparently it's pretty easy to scam their customer support into removing them for free. Just send a support message saying the Kindle belongs to a kid and you're concerned about them seeing inappropriate ads, or something along those lines.
Thanks. That's a good tip. And not even much of a scam: I do have a kid who uses the device, and they do push ads for vaguely pornographic romance novels. (Though I've never read a romance novel in my life...)
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#35Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would a TV need to unmute itself after 5 seconds?
It wouldn't, but could do as a result of a bug that has nothing to do with trying to force you to listen to adverts. My Apple TV box, AVR and TV between them sometimes seem to get into a state where the sound is muted and whenever I unmute it, it unmutes and immediately mutes again. I have to reboot the Apple TV box to get the sound to stay on again. So this sort of thing does happen.
Funny how the bug is not muting the TV during commercials, eh?
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#37Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks
#38ProTip: If you download Prime video content and then watch it downloaded, it doesn't have commercials. Not sure if you can do that on their TVs, but seems to work fine on my Android phone and Fire tablet. Note: I haven't tried it for ~3 months, I just stopped watching Prime content. With as easy as this is, it's easier to use other providers that don't do this, and their user experience was already pretty bad. Search…
> Not sure if you can do that on their TVs
You can't.
Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks
#39I am so, so tired of what technology has become, and it’s far from over yet.
At least on the software side I can focus on the small web and applications from independent folks with no intent to abuse.
Hardware is much harder. I’m glad I can still disconnect my TV from the network and watch everything through an Apple TV, but I don’t expect that to last forever. A TV that refuses to work without an internet connection or Apple slipping further into “services” and crapping ads everywhere like Amazon and Google are both futures that seem perfectly plausible. I hate it so much.
Re: My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks
#40Buying electronics from Amazon means getting ads -- and always in the most obnoxious way possible. I got a Kindle Oasis as a gift /w lockscreen ads, and it's unbelievable how annoying and embarrassing they are, and many are for AI-generated gibberish. And that's a Kindle. Now just imagine living with an Amazon TV...
Not to excuse the ads, but apparently it's pretty easy to scam their customer support into removing them for free. Just send a support message saying the Kindle belongs to a kid and you're concerned about them seeing inappropriate ads, or something along those lines.
They'll probably come back when the next update is pushed. That would be my bet, anyway.