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Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.
This way, when an owner of a Roku TV takes a short break from playing a game on their Xbox, or streaming something on an Apple TV device connected to the TV set, Roku would use that break to show ads. Roku engineers have even explored ways to figure out what the consumer is doing with their TV-connected device in order to display relevant advertising.
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How to kill your brand with this one neat trick!
On that topic, my trusty 55" dumb tv of over nine years died recently. Are there any decent dumb tv brands that aren’t too expensive these days?
what you want is a “commercial display”
Thank fucking Christ my media server is over wifi. If I ever run into ads on my totally legally acquired array of horror movies, I’m going fucking nuclear.
Roku’s value was that it was a low effort way to use streaming apps on a TV, they don’t even have any network effect advantages. 90% of TVs already come with all the roku functionality built in. Absolute business suicide.
i will be trashing all my rokus if they go that route… hopefully there is a decent alternative by now
Host your own media server. Sail the high seas of piracy
I have a jellyfin and a plex server, but nothing has ever been as simple as the roku where we can just hit the button to turn the tv on and fire up youtubetv or pick one of the media servers to watch a movie or show and then a menu item to turn the tv off again when we’re done… it’s more just the device that interfaces with the servers than anything else and it’s getting really cumbersome now. unfortunately we have one for each of the tvs… 1 in the living room, 1 in the kitchen, and 1 in the bedroom… my partner is a big tv junkie.
is there something else that handles those three functions with a remote? that’s really all that’s needed to be honest
Not sure yet honestly. Right now I’m running a Windows PC into the TV with a bluetooth keyboard and trackball. I’m looking at some universal remote controls with built in keyboards and Linux distros for it. Right now I’m just working out the kinks of my network right now so it’s not my #1. Lemme get back to you in the next month or so.
right on, if you find a good solution i’m all ears… honestly I haven’t even looked much since we got our first roku and it did what we wanted, but it’s probably time to find something else
Here’s a link to one of the useful parts of
https://www.reddit.com/r/htpc/comments/13vrwlr/what_is_everyone_using_as_a_remote/
Some interesting product ideas in there, I think there’s got to be a Linux distro that’s like Debian that just goes to the ‘apps’ menu first.
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mine literally already does this. I turned on my TV to play FF7 Rebirth the other day. It’s a Hisense (which is a Roku TV). Tell me why when I turned the TV on and it popped up on the PS5 HDMI connection (PS5 was still in rest mode so it was just the ‘no connection found’ screen) it pops up with a little ad telling me to watch FF7 Advent Children on Prime Video. Excuse me??
Rate of profit really declining
It has a tendency to do that.
I wonder when it’s going to become illegal to jailbreak (remove ads) from your TV, fridge, toaster, toothbrush, etc…In the US, it already would be under the DMCA.
“An off switch?” “She’ll get years for that. Off switches are illegal.”
I dread the day when I can no longer buy a dumb TV or monitor. It’s coming way too soon.even the commercial monitors are coming with bloat.
you basically have to get the really expensive ones that you can swap the main boards out for whatever.
When my dumb tv dies I don’t think I’ll bother replacing it if I can’t find another non-smart tv. I barely use it anyway so I don’t think it’d be that big a problem. If monitors are all smart bullshit now then that’s a different problem
I dread the day when TVs refuse to operate without a network connection. As it is now, even most smart TVs can be made dumb by never connecting them to WiFi etc., but I wonder how long that’s going to last.
Was also struggling with this shit recently. I found out about the concept of “digital signage” which is like, the kind of screen that’s used for a restaurant menu or an airport display. It’s certainly a dumb display, so no smart tv crap. But the quality is all low, ain’t exactly meant for good sharp picture. I ended up just getting a stupid ‘smart tv’ and have not hooked it up to the internet ever. It gets a display feed from my computer and that’s it.
You’ll still be able to buy them but you’ll have to get it from like Harbin Industrial Electronic Co., Ltd. who happens to be the only manufacturer of it in the entire world, and the minimum order size is 20.
why hasn’t the world moved to an open standard yet? seems absurd that we allow a bunch of bytes be controlled based on the cable you have
This way, when an owner of a Roku TV takes a short break from playing a game on their Xbox, or streaming something on an Apple TV device connected to the TV set, Roku would use that break to show ads. Roku engineers have even explored ways to figure out what the consumer is doing with their TV-connected device in order to display relevant advertising.
So they would be showing ads to no one? They’ll just be sending data to a TV that’s not on? And this would produce a profit?
beep-beep beep-beep beep-beep not plugged in
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Etc.Why do they keep trying to make the drink the can meme a thing? Plz no.
China pls sabotage TSMC so we can stem the flow of chips into every goddamn thing I can buy. I don’t want an ad burned onto my morning toast once dumb toasters aren’t sold here anymore.
I think I’ve touched too much grass to understand this.
I don’t want an ad burned onto my morning toast once dumb toasters aren’t sold here anymore.
Stay away from the Lathe of Heaven.
Fuck I better not have that power.
Lathe of heaven is from a movie where the guy with the hat can change reality with his thoughts.
Also was just envisioning ░M░Y░P░U░S░S░Y░I░N░B░I░O░ on a piece of toast.
plz no.
I wanna explore the homes of these executives in minecraft after minecrafting them
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First the basilisk and now this?!
