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Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

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Re: Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

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Post by bakugo »

hapticmonkey wrote: post #20
stephen_g wrote: post #3

Makes me more and more glad that I never let my TV on any network and only use it as a display for Apple TV, the Blu-Ray player, and playing media from USB drives...

My LG TV has been offline for the past 2 years (since I got it). I'm so much happier using the Apple TV. I know people want "dumb" displays, but the reality is that these OLED panels offer industry-leading image quality and benefit from economies of scale, where most users want some form of built-in OS. A signage board cannot compete on price or quality. As long as TV manufacturers let me run it offline without issue…

> As long as TV manufacturers let me run it offline without issue, I'm fine with that.

I suspect that this won't be the case for much longer. Once you've stuffed the TV with all the ads and data harvesting you can, the logical next step is to ensure it doesn't work at all unless those ads are being watched and that data is being harvested.

Re: Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

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Post by toomuchtodo »

hapticmonkey wrote: post #20
stephen_g wrote: post #3

Makes me more and more glad that I never let my TV on any network and only use it as a display for Apple TV, the Blu-Ray player, and playing media from USB drives...

My LG TV has been offline for the past 2 years (since I got it). I'm so much happier using the Apple TV. I know people want "dumb" displays, but the reality is that these OLED panels offer industry-leading image quality and benefit from economies of scale, where most users want some form of built-in OS. A signage board cannot compete on price or quality. As long as TV manufacturers let me run it offline without issue…

Apple TV is the best device for using Plex with a TV fwiw.

Re: Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

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Post by amanzi »

I have an LG TV purchased about 3 years ago. It had a bunch of "AI" features from day one, but mostly related to improving the picture quality dynamically based on what's on the screen. I disabled all of that stuff, so I guess I'll be disabling this too.

The LG software is horrible on this TV. Great picture quality, but I would never recommend an LG TV just because of the software.

Re: Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

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Post by pfych »

amanzi wrote: post #33

I have an LG TV purchased about 3 years ago. It had a bunch of "AI" features from day one, but mostly related to improving the picture quality dynamically based on what's on the screen. I disabled all of that stuff, so I guess I'll be disabling this too. The LG software is horrible on this TV. Great picture quality, but I would never recommend an LG TV just because of the software.

It's crazy to read this because I came from a Samsung TV/Display - LG Software is so much better than that!

Really wish we'd get dumb displays with these great panels :(

Re: Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

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Post by dev1ycan »

I recently bought a $250 Zojurishi rice cooker because I wanted quality, durability and no "trade offs" I am going to start buying more and more Japanese electronics if US and South Korean companies keep colluding with each other in inserting garbage.

Samsung is already preloading intelligence service software and "365 copilot" into their phones to trick old people into paying for a subscription to open a PDF (it sets itself as a default app).

At this point it's a war against the consumer.

And it's not just this, they are slowly phasing out consumer hardware (GPU price increase, RAM, non NVME SSDs, etc.) in an effort to make hardware ownership impossible thus creating a "Market" for the post bubble burst of AI where they will be renting out PC hardware (all these datacenters that they are building which will be useless).

This is US led and also conveniently both the US and South Korea are involved, as they shut down China (both GPUs and RAM manufacturers in China were blacklisted).

It's not a coincidence, I Imagine the threats of potential tariffs if they do not comply does not help with their "independent thinking".

Re: Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

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Post by [deleted] »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #26
weikju wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the boss is asking for more salt. Employees are then replacing sugar with salt and getting bonuses, no matter what the customer reactions are.

And then word gets around that you put salt in coffee instead of sugar, and people stop going to you. Unless you’re the only deli in town.

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Re: Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

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Post by DeepYogurt »

MrMember wrote: post #7
cebert wrote: post #2

I don’t think Microsoft realizes that this is not a positive for their brand.

It's a positive for a nameless middle manager somewhere who can show their boss a graph with a line moving to the right and up with a title like "AI Adoption Across Platforms" and hit their bonus target.

This is 100% the why.

Re: Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

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Post by luxuryballs »

I have an OLED from them that’s 5 years old or so now, I have never once updated it or used any of the software beyond switching inputs and screen/color settings. It’s sad if it sounds like it’s getting to the point where you can’t just use a screen as a dumb screen as an option, I never minded smart features… as long as I never had to use them.

Re: Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

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Post by hyperadvanced »

nerdponx wrote: post #17
bobbybarnaclebb wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don’t care. The customer service era is over.

It doesn't matter if consumers don't like it if everyone does it. The only choice remaining then is to put up with it or not have a TV at all.

You can get a 10 or 20 or 30 year old TV. They still work.
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