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E-Waste.
Surprised it’s that high of a number.
It’s free though. As in you can “buy” it to try and hack it or just not use it to make the company lose money.
There’s a contract, modifying it or using it as not intended (or not using it at all) can make them request the unit back, if you don’t comply they could take you to court. I doubt that happens but the threat is there.
If there is a contact then that’s not a thing you own, it’s more like you leasing your living room.
I can leave everything I own in a storage space, if I can’t then I don’t own it.
I see no way for them to know if I covered the lower screen with something to block it. Maybe even
mount a soundbar to something firm over top of the lower screen.
I wonder how much money consumers will spend on products that are advertised to them when they won’t even buy a TV…
Also I wonder what the quality is like on a “free” TV…
When I heard about it before, they were repurposing old 720p panels.
With how cheap 4K sets are these days, these free TVs are for people who can’t even afford that. I’d say they’re useful as a secondary use for the heat they generate, in that case.
That said, I’d be fine with always on ads if ads and sponsorships never interrupt my content. Like if I’m watching a YouTube video and it’s 4:3, I’m perfectly fine with YouTube filling the sides with ads, as long as they don’t make noise, and as long as I can watch the content uninterrupted. If the video is 16:9 and fills my TV (or monitor), I’m fine propping my iPhone up. They can even use Face ID to pause the content if I look away, as long as I don’t have to look right at the ad (I’ll be watching the content).
Advertising pays for stuff, and if it doesn’t get in the way of stuff, I don’t hate it. They should try working with people rather than straight up exploiting everyone. That just leads to people turning off the ads using a third-party method (e.g. Firefox with uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock). Or I’ll just download the video with jdownloader2.
Like if I’m watching a YouTube video and it’s 4:3, I’m perfectly fine with YouTube filling the sides with ads
Look at the photo in the OP. The ads are on a completely separate (attached) display.
What’s keeping me from just putting drapes over it?
Haha, probably nothing
There’s a proximity sensor to detect if the screen is covered.
Unless the sensor is built into the display that’s be pretty easy just to cut a hole for it.
Got it! Used ghost costume it is!
Oh, my bad. I heard about this before, I knew it was 720, but I completely missed the part where it has an attached display not to mention can’t see the picture. /s
Come on now.
I meant in general, like on other devices.
Orwellian.
There’s a Black Mirror episode with TVs just like these
I don’t remember this one? I remember one where a woman with an implant is forced to “play” commercials.
Maybe they’re talking about the TV walls in “Fifteen Million Merits.”
Yeah I think that’s the one
10 percent of Telly’s shipments through FedEx arrived broken
No big surprise there. Shipments I get through FedEx are always beat to hell.
Or the fuckers claim they couldn’t deliver, or it goes on the truck, off the truck, repeat 2x, lost, then found 1 month later, or they back up over your pavers off a driveway that’s 7 cars wide, or leave your shit at side of said driveway instead of walking it to the porch 20ft away (one of these happens with every one of my FedEx deliveries) UPS usually does great, except the one moron that left my daughter’s $3k medicine by the trashcans down my hill.
USPS > UPS > Amazon/DHL/etc > FedEx
If Amazon is doing better than you at serving the customer, you need to look deep inwards.
I cut the drivers (not the company) slack for some of this sort of stuff. I had a friends dad that delivered for UPS apparently the expectations are impossible. You don’t leave till deliveries are done but it’s not possible to do in a normal day. Marking things delivered that weren’t was apparently the only way to see his family sometimes.
Does it have a proximity sensor on the power screen? If it is only a second screen, I can see an easy curtain hack.
How to make people hate your brand 101.
Ready Player One if it were written as a hard sci fi
IIRC yes it does want to be unobstructed, it won’t necessarily stop working but they collect data on it and could cancel your contract if you do it.
“Oops, looks like my
hammerwii remote flew into the ad screen and now it doesn’t work”I thought the Salesman was a work of fiction.
Running man
Ow! My Balls!
How can I get one in Germany? I’d like to put it in my workshop. The ads wouldn’t bother me there
TVs are cheap. Just get a used one from Kleinanzeigen.
Personally, I don’t think I’d want a free TV that perpetually pelts me with ads
Uhh, surely there must be a way to disable this once the TVs are in our hands.
IIRC they contractually get to charge you the price of the TV if the ads are blocked or disabled.
Ahhh, that’s the catch. Now I don’t want one.
TVs are so cheap. I don’t understand the business model.
line must go up, when all other avenues of generating revenue have been cornered the only path left to make line go up is ever more intrusive ads and similar rent-seeking/inshittification.
Cheap TVs make for a good business model - more ad revenue for the manufacturers of these pieces of junk. If TVs were more expensive they’d never recover their losses.
