I love my smart TV. I love the way it takes a long time to boot up because it’s trying to refresh the advertisements on the home screen. I delight in the way it randomly restarts because it’s downloaded an update without asking me, each of which makes the TV slower and slower with every subsequent install. I adore the way it buries the apps that I want to use, and that I use without fail every single time, below the apps that it’s being paid to promote and which I have never touched in my life and would never use without the cold metal of a glock pressed hard against my sweating temple. I am infinitely thrilled by the way the interface lags constantly, due to the need to have one thousand unnecessary animations rendered on hardware ripped wholesale from a ten year old phone. I feel myself borne aloft on wings of pure joy when I am notified that my data will be collected and analysed to determine my usage patterns. Even now I am writing this from a field of beautiful flowers and soft luscious grass as I lie and look up happily at the bright blue sky, smiling happily to know that this is the future of technology
This is such a load of bollocks.
I’m on my second smart TV, first one being an LG I had four five years and now a Samsung for the last two. Aside from one small and easily ignorable advert on the Samsung home menu there really aren’t that many, and they’ve never slowed down the TVs boot. The app menus were fully customisable allowing you to put your most used apps at the start. The LG was as fast as it came out the box when I replaced it and the Samsung is doing fine two years later. Never had an update happen while I’m watching or using the screen, you get a pop-up to let you know it’s ready and it installs next time you go into standby.
This guy must be buying some dirt cheap TVs to get this experience.
Yeah op must be talking about some cheapest of the cheapest tv’s. I’m also on my second smart tv. I tend to buy tv’s at around 1000€ price range as that has so far been the best bang for buck personally. Never had any issues like that, tv turns on instantly and updates have always happened during nights when I’ve been asleep. My current Samsung sometimes displays a small add on the home screen, which isn’t really that bad I guess, but out of principle it’s still mildly infuriating imo. I paid for my tv so I expect zero ads.
I think I’m just desensitised to adverts these days, they’re so easily ignored.