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you can disable this feature by going to Settings > Privacy > Smart TV Experience.
can you ? can you really ?
it’s open source now so presumably it’s harder to outright lie about how their system works.
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#72Open source all you want! It doesn't change the fact that they're spying the contents of your screen no matter what input is being used with Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology https://docs.roku.com/published/acrservicepolicy/en/CA
it is amazing to me that the data collected by things like this is valuable enough to even consider implementing these things.
advertising really has gotten well out of control.
advertisers keep escalating, and i don't think that will ever stop. at some point the medium of television will be ruined, a lot like how mobile web browsing on ios is today.
it seems like it will be necessary to ban this kind of thing, if advertising itself isn't banned entirely. they will not stop until they must break the law to proceed, and even then i'd give it 50/50 on them stopping collecting personal data.
Re: Roku LT Operating System open source distribution
#73I wish they would offer the instruction in text as well rather than only in videos. Videos become stale and can't easily be used as a reference.
God I have put together so many things now, where I have to watch a 30 minute youtube video. All I needed was a 1 page diagram and I'd have been done, but they gotta show close ups of each screw head as it's put in.
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Then you did it wrong. The tv should be turned on and set to display one port, say hdmi1 then never touched again until its time to shut it off. Volume should be handled through hdmi-cec from the tvs perspective it should get an on or off signal and maybe some volume signals and it should display hdmi and that is the entorety of its existence.
I guess that's fine if you only have one device connected to your TV, and it supports CEC. That is not my use case though.
then put something like the OREI 8k HDMI 5 in 1 switch in front. Costs less than 60 dollars, you can control it with whatever universal remote you want or the remote it comes with. If I needed that I would just map it on my flirc skip remote and continue operating my whole setup from that one remote very easily with the tv only ever getting on/off and maybe volume signals. The nice thing about this solution is it lets you run everything at hdmi 2.1, which is often impossible on even newer tvs because only one or two of the ports are hdmi 2.1 on many tvs.
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I guess that's fine if you only have one device connected to your TV, and it supports CEC. That is not my use case though.
then put something like the OREI 8k HDMI 5 in 1 switch in front. Costs less than 60 dollars, you can control it with whatever universal remote you want or the remote it comes with. If I needed that I would just map it on my flirc skip remote and continue operating my whole setup from that one remote very easily with the tv only ever getting on/off and maybe volume signals. The nice thing about this solution is it let…
So your answer to "TVs suck these days" is "lol just buy more crap."
You are exactly why TVs continue to suck.
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then put something like the OREI 8k HDMI 5 in 1 switch in front. Costs less than 60 dollars, you can control it with whatever universal remote you want or the remote it comes with. If I needed that I would just map it on my flirc skip remote and continue operating my whole setup from that one remote very easily with the tv only ever getting on/off and maybe volume signals. The nice thing about this solution is it let…
So your answer to "TVs suck these days" is "lol just buy more crap." You are exactly why TVs continue to suck.
No, my response is protect yourself from the reality of the market via mitigation because you and i cant affect change because the incentive is to get worse for the corporation and minimum efficient scale is too high to have enough competitors to change the benefit math