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The smarter a TV is, the stupider it breaks too. My parents had a TV with a built-in Skype app, and at some point the TV maker stopped supporting it. After th
by makecheck 7y ago
The smarter a TV is, the stupider it breaks too.
My parents had a TV with a built-in Skype app, and at some point the TV maker stopped supporting it. After that, every single time the TV was turned on the TV popped up a vague modal error message (that didn’t even mention Skype, just “an app” or something). I verified that it is impossible to turn off this message or do anything about it. Think about the stupidity.
- c22 7y agoI bought a Vizio tv a couple years ago that came with a very simple remote. The remote had power, volume, channel, and input buttons and nothing else. It seemed like they intended you to pair it with a smart phone to change any real settings. At some point about 8 months after I bought it turning on the screen caused a message to be displayed informing me that there was a new more fully-featured remote available and that they'd send one to me for free if I registered at the displayed url. The message could only be dismissed using a button that did not exist on the included remote. I literally could not use the television for two weeks while I waited for the new remote to arrive in the mail.