so basically you’re getting a surveillance device shipped straight to your living room.
How I could get a 55" 4K Monitor without internet, microphones cameras and with blazing fast boot time?
Why would anyone want this? It’s free, so it’s obviously not even going to be a good quality TV.
There are no upsides to this.
It’s worse than that. If the concept of the book 1984 were a television this would be it.
“What Orwell failed to predict is that we’d buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.”
All we need is to get a Peloton so our exercise can be monitored too.
You’re just not poor enough yet. They’ll keep inflating us into poverty until this becomes everybody’s best option
Honestly, if I was broke, I’d consider it. If you can afford anything else, then yeah, take that something else. But not everybody can afford stuff.
Low income folks who can’t afford an alternative.
The upside seems pretty clear? It’s a free 55" TV. A lot of people won’t care that it’s not as good as other TVs.
Nah you couldn’t pay me to put this TV in my home.
Also LOL at “smartest” TV. If you can’t install your own apps, then it isn’t exactly very smart.
Oh hell no
Okay so this isn’t ever something I’d even consider - but I wonder what’s to stop someone from just putting a piece of paper (figuratively) over the bottom portion of the screen…?
Probably some sort of stupid sensor they’ve put there for this exact reason.
They have said that they can’t stop people from doing that, but that the settings menus, such as the input switcher, will be on the bottom screen.
Kinda want to get one and rip it apart to extract the screens, strip the copper, etc. Turn it into a monitor with my own screen driver silicon.
I just looked it up and they charge up to $1000 if you block ads or tamper with it. They have all sorts of crazy requirements too.
You could buy four for that price.
Idk how they’d enforce that though.
If that’s the case, then it’s cheaper to just buy a 50” tv. Way cheaper than the $1000 they make you pay
That’s the point. If you can afford even a $400 tv, you won’t buy this. It’s for people for whom $1000 is unobtainable. So they’ll watch the ads rather than risk a lawsuit and penalty.
what prevents people from covering up the advertisements screen?
I would expect them to include cameras that would check that you are looking at the tv and see the ads reflected in your eyes before it lets you play non-ad content.
Big Brother.
Black Mirror.
camera that watches you drink the verification can
The settings menus (input switcher, etc) will be on it. Also it will collect data on anything you view using the main screen (HDMI input, etc) regardless.
Ugh. No thanks.
Straight out of idiocracy
realistically, is there anything stopping me from ripping it apart and using one of those screen driver modules you can buy off ebay to control it and essentially turn it into a big computer monitor?
You’d have to try it to find out. I’d like to think they were smart enough to brick this thing if it doesn’t call home every so often or maybe it has a unique controller? Maybe you’re really badass and can make it happen. They could always try to come at you for…$550 I guess? I think that’s what their fine print says.
There’s something like a $1000 fine if you’re not using it in the approved manner.
Not a fine. That comes from the government. A contract penalty. That they’d likely have to take you to court to get you to pay. Which would be a fun expense for them.
They probably still are the owners of the device and would make you pay for a new one right when they discover that you’re not generating revenue anymore.
Ooof! They couldn’t pay me enough to put this shit in my home.
So if you’re watching cable TV you can watch ads while watching ads.
You can be watched while you watch ads while watching ads
I’m not sure whether this is real or coming directly from a cyberpunk future.
Someone needs to jailbreak/root this TV!
get that second screen working with HomeAssistant or somethin
They have stated they have measures in place to detect anyone trying to do that and will require them to return the TV or pay for it.
Measures can be countered.
I think that would be against the contract signed when reviewing the telly so they’d charge them.
For example I think it is mandatory to connect there TVs to the internet
I think that would be priceless. Send out a million TVs thinking man we are gonna make bank. Literally 990k jailbreak and use it as a dumb TV lol
(I have so much venom for this idea in general.)
Is there an intentional pun on it being priceless? I hope so
I genuinely don’t know who would ever sign up for this. If you’re too broke to afford a TV, just watch on your phone or laptop. Nobody needs a huge screen anymore. Then there’s the number of people with ad blockers or paying a small amount per month just to get rid of ads. This just looks like a bad idea all the way from a bad VC investment to a bad job for the devs to a bad choice for the consumer. And at no point did anyone ever say “wait what are we doing again?”
Sad thing is, plenty of people will lap this up as a good thing and see it as a benefit. At least at first, until they realize they have to watch some TV based ads before they watch the ad roll on their YouTube video, followed by the second screen showing some banner ad the whole time. Yick.
As if a person who can’t afford a normal TV can just buy all the things from all those ads that advertisers think they’re selling.
If you’re too broke to afford a TV, just watch on your phone or laptop.
Tell me you’ve never lived in poverty without telling me you’ve never lived in poverty.
My phone doesn’t have a screen…
