Roku’s New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game
Roku’s New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game
Just what we all wanted, even more ads to deal with in our everyday life
the time in which the TV is on but users aren’t doing anything is valuable
Ads are making everything worse. Yes and ads are disturbing the doing nothing. Doing nothing is very valuable to me. It's the time when I have some time for myself.
84the time in which the TV is on but users aren’t doing anything is valuable
Are they going to pay for the increased power to do so?
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Don't connect your TV to the internet, just don't.
50There was a really interesting interview on The Verge with the CEO of Telly. Basically, TVs are so cheap now because they make all of their profit selling your data. His pitch is "why pay for a TV and then also have your data mined. They should at least give you the TV for free."
It's frustrating because even if we buy a "premium" devices like an LG C3 or one of the nice Samsung TVs, they're still going to spy on us. (PiHole FTW).
36He's right, but I don't like the framing of TV companies are going to spy on you anyway so we're the best option since you get a free TV. I would like the option to not be spied on. In fact I'm choosing that by not having a TV to begin with.
13That’s one of the reasons i’ve stayed with a TV from 2009 for so long. It was just before they started doing all that Internet TV bullshit, so no spying possible.
7You can still do that and get a TV (for now), you just have to not connect it to the internet. Mine has never seen Ethernet cable nor my wifi password and gives me zero problems. I don't even use the TV interface since I have an HDMI switcher that auto switches to the most recently powered device.
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isnt that why if you value privacy (or customization) youre supposed to not plug the tv to the internet and use your prefered streaming setup connected over hdmi. its ultimately a self inflicted problem of people using the built in stuff rather than take the time and setup an actual setup (that would stay the same between tvs as long as said device doesnt die on you)
then convenience is sold, especially if its free, then your data is going to be sold with it.
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Time to start jailbreaking TVs.
25Already a thing for Roku/Android TVs.
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23Don't buy Roku TVs?
23Home entertainment is such a closed system that all these companies are just beta testing shitty ideas for each other. Eventually they all do the same thing as long as any backlash was neither too destructive to revenue nor sustained. See endless streaming services price hikes, account sharing lockdowns, or the fact that you just can't buy dumb TVs anymore.
31That's why you buy the less shitty ones to reinforce the backlash
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HTPC or Google TV. With Google TV you can at least ADB the shit away
14Should be able to with Roku since they are also Android based. I've found a bunch of things to side load or modify any TV running on Android or based on Android.... Which only sucks because I was looking for that kind of stuff for my shit-ass Samsung TV which isn't Android based 😩
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Time to find interests that don't depend on a company taking advantage of my consumption habits.
11Roku’s New HDMI Tech C̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ Will Show Ads When You Pause Your Game
FTFY
8note: this is just a patent
patents usually don't mean shit, sony (?iirc) has a patent for an ad system that requires users to say the name of the brand to continue, but we're not seeing it around yet eh?6If they do,that's it
6The biggest thing I hate about any HDMI overlay is they inevitably screw with the picture quality of the underlying image.
5Could it not be turned off when it's not needed (I.E. The game is unpaused.)
And what specifically do you mean by overlay?
Monitors and TVs have been able to overlay some interface elements over the HDMI input since forever. I have never heard of an overlay degrading quality but maybe there are some poor implementations.
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