LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service” - eviltoast

LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service”::Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you’re ready to cough up after buying hardware

      • LiquorFan@pathfinder.social
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        1 year ago

        I’m never buying a “smart” anything, aside from phones. I put up with Android and it already feels like too much.

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          1 year ago

          By all means. But “smart” TVs come at a discount because they believe they’ll have opportunities to make revenue off of those features. However, if you prevent the thing from connecting to the Internet then you get the best of both worlds. Cheaper and ad free.

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            1 year ago

            Fire TV firmware also just gets worse and worse with each new version. Netflix app also follows suit.

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                1 year ago

                The one saving grace is that it’s cheap and you can install Kodi on it.

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            1 year ago

            I have a Fire Stick and a newer Vizio TV. For a while I could tell Alexa to turn in the TV: the Fire Stick would turn on, then use HDMI-CEC to turn on the TV and select its input. Worked great and I didn’t have to deal with Vizio

            Then at some point Alexa started controlling the TV itself instead. Now I have to choose whether to deal with Vizio or to do more clicks to get to my streaming device. I really need to figure out how to get the original configuration back

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      You don’t get any dumb TVs in my country anymore. I’d assume its the same everywhere else unless you’re going back a minimum 5 years of tech evolution, which might not be all too bad.