LG and Samsung have both announced their 2025 smart TVs at CES this weekend, and some of them will include access to Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant. Both TV manufacturers are chasing the artificial intelligence hype train with dedicated AI sections on their smart TVs that include a shortcut to a Copilot web app.
LG is adding an entire AI section to its TVs and rebranding its remote to “AI Remote,” in an effort to sell consumers on the promise of large language models. While it’s not clear exactly how Copilot works on LG’s latest TVs, the company describes access to Copilot as a way to allow users to “efficiently find and organize complex information using contextual cues.”
LG hasn’t demonstrated its Copilot integration just yet, but it has shown off its own AI Chatbot that’s part of its TVs. It appears Copilot will be surfaced when LG TV users want to search for more information on a particular subject.
Samsung also has its own Vision AI brand for its AI-powered TV features this year, which include AI upscaling, Auto HDR Remastering, and Adaptive Sound Pro. There’s also a new AI button on the remote to access AI features like recognizing food on a screen or AI home security features that analyze video feeds from smart cameras.
Microsoft’s Copilot will be part of this Vision AI section. “In collaboration with Microsoft, Samsung announced the new Smart TVs and Smart Monitors featuring Microsoft Copilot,” says Samsung in a press release. “This partnership will enable users to explore a wide range of Copilot services, including personalized content recommendations.”
I asked Samsung for more information or images of Copilot in action, but the company doesn’t have anything more to share right now. I’ve also asked LG and Microsoft for more information about Copilot on TVs and neither company has responded in time for publication. Without any indication of exactly how Copilot works on these TVs, I’m going to chalk this one up as a gimmicky feature that LG, Samsung, and Microsoft clearly aren’t ready to demo yet.
And here I was thinking I should upgrade to a nice big OLED and get a PS5 when GTA VI comes out, as it’ll undoubtedly be another console exclusive. Of course, LG was at the forefront of consideration, they do make nice OLED panels and mostly everyone else using OLED also uses their panels.
Now they’re out of consideration too, along with Samsung (which I currently own)
Samsung suck definitely good to stay away, Sony or Panasonic.
Mine doesn’t even have the weird UI ads people would always post on reddit, it just… sucks.
If you’re going to run an OS other than Android or Linux with Plasma Bigscreen, at least make it not suck. Tizen on Samsung TVs just sucks.
Unremovable buttons for Netflix, Prime and… WTF even is a Rakuten? on the remote which has a total of less than 15 buttons. Why… It was so minimalistic.
What annoys me is the buttons are not editable, I want plex not rakuten. I have only ever pressed that bu accident. Samsung suck
The only “smart” feature I want in my TV is a slot to insert a CM5 so I can run my own software.
There are/were signage TV’s that had that at one point. Was really hoping it would take off because that’s my dream TV setup too
I think NEC might still offer some on the CM4? unsure if they can still be purchased as of now, as that war in '22
Edit: appears they’re still sold! https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/system-on-a-chip
I wish consumer TVs had a CM5 slot
Their 65" signage TV with CM4 slot retails at 1300$, while its not a fancy micro led with direct lighting, it’s never going to spy on you. To me thats a worthy tradeoff. If I needed a TV in my life, thats what I’d be getting.
Honestly it sounds nice, maybe one day ill buy it if I can find it cheap used
I really wish it was easier to open up a TV, rip out all the compute and replace it with a custom display driver. Someone could unironically make a decent amount of money selling diy TV stupidification kits
Something like what Jeff Geerling does with this display perhaps.
I’d probably call them “tech lobotomy kits”
Telebotomy perhaps
We just call that Fox News
I guess I’ll be avoiding those models when I’m next in the market for a TV, or work out how to disable it/block it at my router if I am forced to connect the TV to the Internet for firmware updates, etc.
LG and Samsung TVs were already on my “do-not-buy” list with their ad ridden UIs, sounds like they’re just getting worse. Only a matter of time before they require you to connect them to the Internet to use them
it’s not an issue if you use your own peripherals. I never use my LG’s WebOS and never see any ads.
Know anyone else that does a good picture quality 65” OLED?
Sony. I got last year’s open box for close to 1k. It runs Android so I have a ad free launcher called Projectivy and can sideload apps as well.
I went Sony recently too because of how garbage LG and Samsung have been getting. Only problem is Sony decided to rebrand fucking HDMI-CEC as “BRAVIA Sync” and make it not work. Other than that, the panel is gorgeous and it’s not even an OLED.
Just buy an LG and use an external media device. LG TVs work perfectly fine with no network connection and you can set them to power on and go straight to the last used HDMI input.
I never see the built-in OS on my LG OLED.
Time really is a flat circle huh?
This all just sounds like the Alexa/Google Assistant integration some brands were advertising for their TVs previously, just ends up as the obnoxious button you bump into and desperately try to back out while the aging TV huffs and puffs struggling to load the flashy UIWhen I first bought my LG TV, the homescreen was great. The cursor-thing with the remote was annoying, but it didn’t really have ads, it had every app I needed, etc.
But it kept updating and then demanding I give it more permissions. Kept getting worse and worse as time went on. So recently I said fuck it, bought an Apple TV, and did a factory reset on the TV. The TV is just a TV now, it has no WiFi access so it doesn’t ever bother me. And the Apple TV is better than the LG OS ever was. Also I can bring the Apple TV to hotels (if they have accessible HDMI ports) which is pretty neat.
Ugh. I just want a dumb TV. I want a nice hi res screen and that’s it. Seems everyone else wants big TV at low cost and that’s why we get this shite.
Who analyzes vast amounts of data on their TV?
The TV will analyze every bit of your viewing data, tha6s who. This isn’t for consu,era, no matter how they spin it. It’s to sell data to advertisers.
As far as I know, all smart TVs are user-hostile in the sense that they will be used against you if you connect them to the internet.
The least bad is Sony. Buy it, keep it offline forever, and enjoy good-quality video. Avoid all the other trash companies as if your privacy depended on it.
What makes you say Sony is the least bad? Don’t those things run a Google software stack?
They do use Android, yes. I think they are least bad because I can still buy a Sony TV, never connect it to the internet, and still have a TV that works and has a good quality picture.
There are other TV brands - one commenter mentioned Hisense - that will refuse to work until connected to the internet. Other, cheaper brands like TCL, Vizio, and Onn usually have pretty bad-looking screens comparatively. Samsung and LG usually have fine-looking screens but are also more aggressive about pushing ads on your TV than Sony is.
I despise Sony as a company and I have no brand loyalty, but in my experience they seem to offer the least bad TV overall at the moment. If anyone’s experience is different, I would appreciate them sharing it here.
Just imagine how much money Microsoft must be investing in this mass surveillance program they are trying to sneak in under the guise of the AI in charge of its indexing.
This is what happens when rich people and corporations have too much investment money. They get convinced by some technology they think kinda works then dump an ungodly amount of money into it.
Uber is still pushing around investor money over 10 years later and until we start cutting rich people off this stupid AI stuff won’t die like it should.
LG and Samsung are bigger idiots than I gave them credit for being.
My company orders a thousand TVs a month and we’ve dropped Samsung all together unless a client specifically requests it. I hated them when I was an installer (terrible to mount and configure, especially the Frame TVs) and now I hate them on the pre-sales side of things.
We looked into LG but they’re kind of a pain to get quotes from.
We default to Sony now.
No one asked for this
Im planning on upgrading my old TV soon. But a new one will not be connected to the internet during its lifetime. All useful services are available on more powerful and more intuitive devices anyway.
AI on TV is hopefully just the new 3d. Gone soon.
Ouch, what will come after AI… ?
I’ll never buy from them again. #fuckai
