Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV

andsoitis

Hisense has low taste.

ktallett

Another brand I will not buy. What has become of so many companies selling out? Apple, Lenovo, Hisense, and so on.

mathgeek

Hopefully these can still be blocked by adguard et al: https://old.reddit.com/r/Adblock/comments/116144l/is_there_a...

ramesh31

Worth it for the price though. A 100" Hisense can be had for $1k now at Best Buy. Would have been a $20,000 TV 10 years ago.

bilekas

Ughh.. I recently turned on my 1000EUR+ LG Oled TV to find that it had automatically installed a Copilot app.. And keeps doing it every few days. Is there any smart TV that I can actually just use a TV how I want? Or am I reduced to buying an Apple TV device and unplugging the TV from the internet entirely ?

andsoitis

> live TV Does anyone watch linear TV other than for sport and news? Everything else (movies, TV shows) is through streaming apps, no?

ectospheno

Once I verify a home video product works as intended I remove its network connection and never connect it again. I then leave its static ip address configured and block any traffic from it on the off chance it’s ever connected again. The sole exception is my PlayStation 5. I use apps on it for all streaming.

drchaim

The other day I was at a spa, they had a TV in the background showing a channel with relaxing images, but after 5 minutes ads started playing.I don't think the spa staff even knew about it. we're fucked

dotcoma

That’s what I call progress! ;)

lpcvoid

I have a rooted LG WebOS TV. It's really nice. I can ssh into it. It's on a dedicated VLAN which has all LG domains and IP firewalled off. It can connect to Youtube, using a version of the Youtube app with integrated adblocker and sponsorblock. It's absolute superb.

globular-toast

If someone was offering you a sweet but in exchange they punched you in the face, you'd probably question whether the sweet was really worth it. Unless, of course, you're addicted to the sweets. Time to kick the addiction. Seek out ways to spend your time that are good for you and/or others.

daft_pink

Love my Apple TV box. Just sayin’ Why you would want your TV Manufacturer to control the experience at this point I have no idea. 5-6 years ago, we were a Roku only household. Now we are Apple TV all the way and haven’t looked back.

st_goliath

In the past, you had to wait for the tubes to warm up, before you got a picture. Nowadays, you have to wait for the thing to finish booting. In the future, you have to wait for the ads to finish playing?

dekken_

this is theft of time

erremerre

Here could some European company that already makes tv to step in and create something good, with no ads, and even better if they promise to open the sourcecode, bootloader etc... Something like Philips for example. But I guess they are too busy making lightbulbs to notice that they could fill that gap on the TV market space.

beej71

Searching for "commercial display" will get you some dumb TVs. They tend to cost 2x, but you get what you pay for. We just gave away our 55" Hisense to our friend. I hope she doesn't think it means we hate her now. ;) (Side note: not having a TV in the living space allowed us to freely design it to be a living space.)

LaSombra

I'll keep not connecting my TV to the Internet and keep using a Fire TV stick for now.

phaser

Reminds me of the people of the future in Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy” who watch large TVs where most of the space is taken by advertising. It’s amazing how this one turned morphed from humor into an eerie warning of the future in 20 years. https://youtu.be/YqQ6D0Bu-a8

wat10000

More and more I think that advertising should just be banned. People will tell me it's useful. I don't believe it. But even if it were true, it's not worth it. Sorry, advertisers, you abused it horribly, you ruined it for everyone.

deafpolygon

i am never buying another smart tv again. we all should vote with our wallet, but alas — such is life. i will be replacing my existing (3 year old tv) when its time with a pc monitor and yes, i will go down in size. i’ve found that really large tbs aren’t really adding that much and dominate your house the minute you walk in.