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The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 80 points 9 months ago* (16 children)

It's not even innovation, per say. It's just Big Number Go Up.

Nobody seems to want to make a TV that makes watching TV more pleasant. They just want to turn these things into giant bespoke advertising billboards in your living room.

Show me the TV manufacturer who includes an onboard ad blocker. That's some fucking innovation.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    The galaxy brain move is buying an old dumb tv for a pittance and use it for watching Jellyfin/Plex/stream from a browser with uBlock Origin/DNS filtering – all running on some relative's "obsolete" smart toaster from last year that they happily gift you because "the new version's bagel mode IS LIT – pun intended – but it needs the 128 gb DDR7 ram of the new model, can barely toast on the old one any more".

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (14 children)

    You can't really find a dumb TV anymore. I might see how big of a monkey I can find when I'm ready to upgrade, but I doubt I'll find one big enough and cheap enough.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I hooked my computer up to the HDMI and have used that as my primary interface.

    It's not perfect, but it screens out 95% of bullshit

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    That doesn’t, unless you’ve blocked your TV from network access, because they use ACR - Automated Content Recognition - that literally scans what is being displayed over your hdmi port and then sells it off to advertisers.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I think you missed the part where the TV doesn't have access to the network.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Just don't give the TV your wifi password, boom dumb TV.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    That won't save you anymore. My boss bought a smallish smart TV in contravention of my explicit instructions for use as a CCTV monitor because it was "cheap." It nags you on power up with a popup whining about not being able to access the internet, and if you don't feed it your Wifi password it will subsequently display that same popup every 30 minutes or so requiring you to dismiss it again. And again. And again. Apparently the play is to just annoy you into caving and letting it access your network.

    Instead I packed it up and returned it. Fuck that.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    If you are at a business you should have an access point or router that is capable of blocking specific devices from WAN access. But I would create a new segmented network, block that network from WAN access entirely, put it on its own VLAN, and then connect the TV to that network.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I'd assume it nags whenever it can't connect to the home server, and just says "network".

    So when they go out of business any remaining units will nag forever.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    You can use your router or access point tools to check what address it’s trying to resolve and then set up a redirect to a device that can respond with a fake response.

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