Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV

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Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV - Lemmy: Bestiverse

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If you never give a tv the internet, it stays a dumb tv

If you never give a tv the internet, it stays a dumb tv, so far.

I think it’s only a matter of time before TV manufacturers start disabling the TVs if they can’t connect periodically. Or they’ll start shipping them with SIM cards.

Or doing what auto MFG’s do, add low bandwidth cellular service so they can directly get telemetry if you don’t give it internet. I don’t know if the economics of it scale with the TV price points, but they’d just bake that into the price and people would be unwittingly buing their own surveillance/ad machines anyways (like new phones, computers, etc.).