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I want an AI TV that blocks all forms of advertising. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We mostly watch news and sports in my house. So unfortunately, live TV. Occasionally we watch other things. I mute the commercials and browse my phone when they're on.

But I would love a TV that is smart enough to auto hide & mute every kind of ad. Even little logos on the athletes' uniforms. Hide the ads on the pitcher's mound. Hide the billboards and signs in the stadium. Show some cool little generic animation, music video, or slide show during commercial breaks. Hide the damned popup window ads and scrolling ads that some channels do. Remove product placements from movies and shows. Basically make all ads completely vanish.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You’ll never be able to buy that at like a Walmart of Best Buy type retailer. TVs these days are already just spy machines to serve ads. It’s a lovely idea, but it’ll never happen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TVs are cheap right now like really cheap. I seriously doubt they're selling them much above cost and making the money back on the advertising and information gathering.

I don't think any of the TV manufacturers would bulk too much at selling you a TV but it's going to be at a price of around the lifetime value of your watching habits. You can get a 50-60" reference monitor for about 10 grand. If there was a market for it Best buy would probably sell it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yep.

I've previously used PiHole and my smart TV got so much faster because it couldn't load the BS.

Just using NextDNS or any other ad blocking DNS makes it work better.