@TimWardCam Yeah, we all like different things. TV...

@TimWardCam Yeah, we all like different things.

TV manufacturers won't support their streaming apps for as long as the tv functions. So when they stop updating, your smart tv won't show Youtube or Disney+ or whatever service anymore. Then you need to replace your tv even though the display device would be good for years.

And worse, when some of them stop working, it may make the entire smart tv software stop working or get annoying to use.

Like 11 August at 20:00 | Open on mastodon.world

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

@hamatti Yeah, I know. Or ... one could keep the TV and buy an external device to replace the dead services.

11 August at 21:36 | Open on c.im

Rob\ViewdataUK

@TimWardCam @hamatti
Our main TV is "smart", or would be if I'd ever connected it to the network. It still picks up broadcast TV, and there's an external box (actually a fireTV) for all the apps and other stuff. Been bitten by TV manufacturers dropping support for apps so often that I didn't even bother trying these ones.

12 August at 1:27 | Open on irrelevant.me.uk

Wilfried Klaebe

@TimWardCam That's why I don't want those services internally in the first place because they absolutely *will* break.

@hamatti

12 August at 7:07 | Open on chaos.social

Juhis

@wonka @TimWardCam And the TV software isn't designed to gracefully work when services start to fail but will become an annoyance to work with.

12 August at 12:28 | Open on mastodon.world

Ylöne

@TimWardCam @hamatti I have recently read about smart TVs even being bricked (in the sense that you can't really use it for anything anymore) if you don't accept some updated EULA or if some "upgrade" goes wrong. It does not become "dumb" either. You lose access to a device you have paid for.

13 August at 9:52 | Open on mastodontti.fi