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This is already extremely common. For example, my TV uses some sort of Roku-branded OS. They literally have ads on the home screen when you first turn on the TV
by willio58 2y ago
This is already extremely common. For example, my TV uses some sort of Roku-branded OS. They literally have ads on the home screen when you first turn on the TV. It's something I've struggled to work around, and eventually gave up. I just kind of avert my eyes until my Apple TV kicks in.
I feel like this should be illegal. It's kind of like billboards on the side of the road, it's something I never want to say but it's forced upon me. I bought your product, why is it allowed that you can just throw ads on it? I understand they sometimes sell these TVs at a slight loss to make up for that, but I feel like they should be required to sell the same TV without Ads for the same 3% margin added on. I bet most people would pay for the latter if it was provided.
- dartos 2y agoJust buy a TV without ads. Free market at work. /s
- tencentshill 2y agoYou can for an excessive price. Most commercial outdoor-rated panels are just simple HDMI or network inputs.
- KerrAvon 2y agoNonsense. Buy an LG TV of any kind. Never connect it to the internet. Plug in an Apple TV (or Linux HTPC box of your choice). Ad-free TV at consumer prices. edit: not just OLED
- lstodd 2y agoWhy even buy a TV? Buy a screen and a projector.
- adamredwoods 2y agoTVs are more compact for smaller rooms, brighter in sunlight.
- lancesells 2y agoApple TV kind of has ads in the form of their streaming service. Not egregious yet, but it gets worse with every iteration.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoIf you move the tv+ app down from the top row, you should never see it.
- lancesells 2y agoUnfortunately I've purchased movies from iTunes over the last ~15 years.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoPretty sure all new TVs have HDMI CEC, so you can just buy any TV, connect it to a $100 to $150 Apple TV/Nvidia shield/google thing or whatever and have no ads (from tv manufacturer).
- somerandomqaguy 2y agoNope, at least last I saw around 2021, Samsung and LG were moving their commercial displays to include Tizen and WebOS as well. I don't know about the other supliers though.
- CamperBob2 2y agoI bought your product, why is it allowed that you can just throw ads on it? I think you've answered your own question here.
- scarface_74 2y agoYou can change the settings to switch directly to the HDMI port connected to your AppleTV. The AppleTV remote will also turn your TV on and off automatically
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoRoku is the worst thing to happen to television since motion smoothing.
- pier25 2y agoThe solution is to not connect the TV to the internet. This not only removes ads but also content capturing and tracking.
- smitelli 2y agoThe solution for now. I fully expect future TVs to ship with cellular modems that connect to any carrier willing to jump into bed with the manufacturer.
- uneoneuno 2y agoOr they will have agreements to jump through passing phone networks or via the ISP's "CoxWiFi" network that they resell as a backhaul
- pier25 2y agoCould be but seems like it would be expensive. IIRC the content scanners send 1 image per second.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoSurely they just send an image hash.
- pier25 2y agowould that work with different resolutions etc?
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoOn device or in the cloud, the advertisers need some method to match images. Might as well fully exploit your advertisees and have the client device calculate the hashes. As to the actual matching strategy, I would guess a perceptual hash that is robust to some amount of noise and varying resolutions. Since you are comparing repeated hashes, say at 1Hz, you have multiple chances over the observation window to match a fingerprint to the lookup database. 30 minute show x 60 frames per minute = 1800 hashes to make the id