Submitted 1 year ago by realcaseyrollins to tech@kbin.social
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23793525/telly-free-4k-tv-advertising-dual-screen
The free ad-supported TV is coming to its first round of customers.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23793525/telly-free-4k-tv-advertising-dual-screen
The hope is that the company bombs, and that the people who got this television get to keep it with no strings attached. You know, like what happened with the Gizmondo, or the CueCat.
I think this is likely so long as they don't get a partnership with a bigger company
Hell no.
Feels more than a bit dystopian and generally gross, but at the end of the day, it's an option. If someone decides their money is worth more to them than their sanity, more power to them, and I'm happy enough that they have that option. Especially if someone doesn't otherwise watch very much TV, I can imagine someone thinking they have a better idea of how to spend several hundred dollars.
Can’t wait for the videos breaking down the TV and showing how to work around it. It’ll at least be an entertaining ltt vid in this.
All I learned I learned from telly
The bigger the telly, the smarter the man
You can tell from my big telly
Just how clever a feller I am!
pirate526@kbin.social 1 year ago
I wonder how long it’d be until there’s a jailbreak or some modification available to drop all ads.. essentially scoring yourself a free TV..