Instagram is putting Reels on your TV

Meta is starting to test a new Instagram app for TVs for watching Reels. The app will be available first as a pilot for Amazon Fire TV devices in the US.

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this is what the government thinks is worth their time? worth fixing? what a relentless disappointment they have been

but fwiw i can’t get free to air without an app cos the signal repeater is over the hills and far away. free-to-air are responsible for that. and if i have an app on my TV it takes two pushes of a button to delete it, or move it to the end of the queue.

and the internet is crap, whatever the app. government are responsible for that, but only cos they were sucking up to a streaming service provider (whose service is now chockers with ads) when they came up with FTTN

i rarely watch free to air via an app cos their programs are crap. even if they were ad free i would probably still avoid them.

they don’t “need” to spend millions to produce watchable content and make a profit, just ditch the sell-air-brities and dipshits and lowest common denominator values.

and we don’t need to have such a grossly overpaid government if their values/priorities are no better than free to air stations