LOL, they are basically billboards that you purchase to display ads at home!
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Is there an OLED tv on the market now that doesn’t just exist to sell ads?
Maybe Sony.
well this sucks. i'm on my 4th LG TV because I can't stand the quality from other brands; but when the choice is ads vs picture quality, i'll take the inferior quality every single time. fuck ads.
Sony makes teevees from lg and Sammy panels... I think they are slightly better privacy ads wise but few hundred bucks more than similar models from manufacturers
Well that sucks, ironically I connected my C2 to the net for the NFL gamepass sub I'm actually paying for. Guess it's back to illegal streams on the desktop PC
Okay, I have to wonder... what is the point of shoving ads down user's throats all the time? Ads make me NOT want to purchase something. If I see ads for a product it just makes me hate that product. If a product pushes ads I hate that too.
The primary goal is to simply get the information inside your mind. Whether you like or dislike it doesn't really matter. That preexisting brand/product familiarity is often all that is needed to tip the scales months or years down the road, once you've "forgotten" all about the annoying ad, while you find yourself deciding between competing products on a shelf or on a store page.
I can see it working when you otherwise have NO brand recognition whatsoever, but seeing ads for, say, TikTok on YouTube every 30 seconds isn't going to convince me to get a TikTok. I'm never going to be "gee I wonder what short form video content provider I should subscribe to" and even if that somehow miraculously DID happen, I'm going to research my decision and not just arbitrarily make a decision based on a notion I might have heard about a product one time months/years ago. Maybe if I didn't have a computer in my pocket at all times where I could get unbiased reviews on demand that would work but definitely not in modern times. But apparently I'm in the minority.
Your TV doesn't need a screensaver. You can just... turn it off.
for now
Soon that feature will be premium only.
You can still turn it off. Not much they can do about your turning it off at the wall.
A battery and a cell modem.
Dystrophic...
Now I'm glad I never bought an LG TV.
If i ever get the chance to live alone in a place i can call my own, i wont own a TV. Fuck this shit.