One user mentions that LG also enabled content-aware data mining: https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1plldqo/...
ACR has been going on for at least a decade now. It's the reason TVs are so cheap now.
LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
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Re: LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
#52We need a Framework-style company making TVs. Get the OLED panels from whoever makes them wholesale, spend on a beautiful enclosure / design, add just enough software to calibrate the image and switch between HDMI inputs with HDMI-CEC. Sell a premium soundbar as an add-on instead of including speakers in the base device. I think a brand like Sonos could make a killing in this market selling a premium dumb tv to high…
The hitch is that it would be more expensive, making it a "premium" product and limiting the market. Smart TV pricing typically includes subsidies based on the assumed data sales from each user over the lifetime of the device.
Re: LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
#53Just don't connect your tv to the internet. Get an Apple TV or an Nvidia Shield.
Re: LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
#54We need a Framework-style company making TVs. Get the OLED panels from whoever makes them wholesale, spend on a beautiful enclosure / design, add just enough software to calibrate the image and switch between HDMI inputs with HDMI-CEC. Sell a premium soundbar as an add-on instead of including speakers in the base device. I think a brand like Sonos could make a killing in this market selling a premium dumb tv to high…
I would buy this in a heartbeat. I am profoundly bothered by the slop software that is on every TV these days. I keep joking that as tech invades more and more corners of our lives, we will at some point in the future be helping our parents with their couches by saying "Have you tried restarting your couch?"
Don't get me wrong, tech is great when it's a value-add, but TV tech has gotten out of control.
Re: LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
#55Who the fuck still watches content on an effing TV in 2025?
Me. It seems like the best kind of display for a game console.
Re: LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
#56Who the fuck still watches content on an effing TV in 2025?
Probably half the planet
Re: LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
#57We need a Framework-style company making TVs. Get the OLED panels from whoever makes them wholesale, spend on a beautiful enclosure / design, add just enough software to calibrate the image and switch between HDMI inputs with HDMI-CEC. Sell a premium soundbar as an add-on instead of including speakers in the base device. I think a brand like Sonos could make a killing in this market selling a premium dumb tv to high…
It would not be cheap. All that ad crap represents revenue, and all those features represent sales volume for feature-conscious customers. Without volume you don’t have supplier leverage on pricing, or the ability to get onto big box store shelves, reducing volume further.
Re: LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
#58We need a Framework-style company making TVs. Get the OLED panels from whoever makes them wholesale, spend on a beautiful enclosure / design, add just enough software to calibrate the image and switch between HDMI inputs with HDMI-CEC. Sell a premium soundbar as an add-on instead of including speakers in the base device. I think a brand like Sonos could make a killing in this market selling a premium dumb tv to high…
Sonos is a software company with a history of pushing bad updates. But Framework sounds great.
Re: LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
#59We need a Framework-style company making TVs. Get the OLED panels from whoever makes them wholesale, spend on a beautiful enclosure / design, add just enough software to calibrate the image and switch between HDMI inputs with HDMI-CEC. Sell a premium soundbar as an add-on instead of including speakers in the base device. I think a brand like Sonos could make a killing in this market selling a premium dumb tv to high…
Wouldn't not connecting it online and using a google tv box fix this issue ?
Re: LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
#60Until somebody releases a dumb TV, you just can't connect your tv to the Internet.
We need a "Right to Be Left Alone" law.