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YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!
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Smart TVs are really just somebody else's computer that you paid for to watch ads on.
This. There is a reason why dumb displays of a similar size are much more expensive. Because the manufacturer can't feed you ads and sell your data ...
I don't understand the need for those. My smart tv is functioning exactly as a computer monitor. It is connected via a display connection to my computer, and nothing else. It does show a brief warning that it is unconnected to the internet whenever I turn it on, but it disappears after 10 seconds or so.
Yeah, but that's not how most people use Smart TVs. Also, they're still coming for you, next up they'll try to insert ads via HDMI. and good luck finding a Smart TV with display port.
Displayport via USB-C could start gaining momentum.
It's a possibility with chromebooks because of the google ad network, but I can't see why consoles, linux, mac, even windows tbh, has any incentive to support this. At best, they might make it an option, but there's nothing in it for them. It actively makes their content look worse, while an ad supported OS like windows already has capability to place ads anyway.
$$$
Consoles are a shrinking market. If they were offered money by TV manufacturers to cooperate with putting more ads on it, they most certainly will.
And I suspect Microsoft/Windows will too. Apple might not, though.
Yeah. Apple is plenty evil but not having ads is, generally, part of their “premium feel.” There are exceptions to this, unfortunately, especially recently.
But I definitely don’t regret doing a factory reset on my LG TV and hooking up an Apple TV.
They can't add ads if they're not connected to the ibternet
Hisense?
Yeah, and that is a very recent one from a not-that-well know company. Go figure!
That's awful
Ads via HDMI shouldn't work if the TV doesn't have internet connection, by my understanding. So I do not see any problems there.
oh don't worry, they'll start participating in mesh networks with your neighbors' smart devices and getting internet access that way
or using like 4g/5g network for ads for free, sucking up all the data bandwidth from smartphone users so they can make sure we got our daily ad dosage!
ANTI-CORPORATE PROPAGANDA DETECTED. PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN.I seem to recall reafing that smart TVs have a list of default passwords they use to try and connect to the to wifi networks they find...
So they try to brute force in to our wifis? Why no one sued them?!
Ads over HDMI are being worked on.
My husband had the Tv connected to the internet, even though we watch everthing from the xbox. I changed the wifi password a few months ago, and never reconnected the TV.
Best decision ever.
I love how roku won't let you re-order apps unless you are online. Fuck off!
TVs often do a bad job at switching on when the computer turns on, then off when it turns off/goes to sleep. Drives me spare. That was fixed in like 1995-2000 for normal monitors.
CEC has been around for years. This is probably more an issue with the PC in question rather than the TV. TVs do an excellent job at turning themselves on when CEC is enabled. 👍
PCs have almost never supported CEC. PCs use a different signalling method to indicate to the monitor that they're on/off.
Exactly. So they aren't talking with the same protocol. TVs can turn themselves on, but PCs just don't send the required signals. ✔️
LibreELEC (just enough OS for Kodi) on Raspberry Pi supports CEC. Does that count as a PC?
Suuure let's count it!
I use mine the same way, but many people don't. My parents would rather be logged in on the tv than connect a laptop or other pc for the same access but better results
What are the chances the 10-second warning becomes a 90-second unskippable one?
As long as it isn't internet connected, it shouldn't happen - unless it's programmed to automatically connect to any nearby unprotected WiFi to fetch updates...
And now look how high $ CRTs are, even the low end ones.
I'll never get rid of mine. You can't get a 0 ms latency TV with zero "features" anymore. And those commercial TVs dont come with remotes. I never liked how flat screens look either. Laggy and awful colors. I'm sure a $3000 oled is great but no thanks
I also despise massive TVs so another win. People with 80" TVs in their living room are just ick.
The same reason i stopped playing on Consoles since the PS2 - there was no good reason for the People to get this kind of things on the internet.
It was just good for the Business to hold the connection to you and control whatever they produced.
I got a PS3 and a PS4 so I wouldn't need to use Windows for gaming. That's not an issue anymore, though.
Steamdeck here and the last time i played on Windows was like 2015/2016 but never again after Win10 shutdown my System for an Update while i played a LoL ranked Game.. That was the last Time i used Windows for privat use. After that i formated the HDD and installed Linux Mint
I'm still very happy with this decision
I thought LoL was one of the games that require windows for kernel level anticheat?
That was a somewhat recent development, they had many years to suffer playing Leauge on Linux c:
Yes, but at least the kernel Anti Cheat belongs since 2024 i belive? There was a long Time before DXVK or Proton you can play nearly nothing on Linux but LoL worked "okayish". Nothing close to play ranked but for a casual normal game it was good enought to let me switch to Linux this times and ditch Windows at all
That is a user error.
What is a user error?
The last console I owned was the Xbox 360. Once I started seeing non-gaming advertisements on my home screen, I lost all interest in the product line.
Sometimes I think internet connectivity was a mistake.
Commercial TVs are so worth the extra cost. Recently got a Samsung Commercial Non-Smart TV and paired it with my $20 debloated/deGoogled Onn 4K Streaming box from Walmart. Bam, got a media setup that I fully own.
What is the cost comparison?
Honestly under 60 inches not too bad
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/commercial-tvs/hotel-tv/43-inch-hotel-tv-hu6000f-uhd-4k-sku-hg43u600fnfxza/
$453.00 # 43" Samsung HU6000F Non-Smart Hospitality TV with Pro:Idiom for Set Top Box Deployments
Nice!
yeah I got a bit lazy there, at 55 inches you are at $604
When you go to 65 though its $1004 so pretty big jump.
Oddly enough going from 65 to 75 is only another ~375 USD (1377)
To me the best deal seems like 50 or 55 inches, although your room size and seating positions are likely the most important.
Also interesting if you're in the USA Best Buy does have some non-smart TVs and even a filter for it, although its mostly no-name brands or Samsung.
Thanks for fleshing out the full picture. So perhaps the largest TVs at the store are getting some pretty big subsidies, courtesy Advertising Inc.
And good tip on Best Buy. Thank you. What an informative lil comment, Leo 😎
Link to tv box? And did you have to debload/degoogle it yourself?
https://www.walmart.com/ip/ONN-4K-STREAMINGBOX/16641817510?fulfillmentIntent=In-store&filters=%5B%7B%22intent%22%3A%22fulfillmentIntent%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%22In-store%22%5D%7D%5D&classType=REGULAR&from=%2Fsearch
https://old.reddit.com/r/AndroidTV/comments/12rya0t/change_launcher_debloat_the_new_onn_4k_streaming/
This really has nothing to do with Smart TVs in itself though.. It's just a problem if you choose to play YouTube videos on your TV, which seems like a pretty reasonable thing to want to do.