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LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service”(www.theregister.com)

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LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service”::Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you’re ready to cough up after buying hardware

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april4356@lemmy.world
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RustyWizard@programming.dev
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Nah, smart TV with media box. You get the ad adjusted price, you merely don’t hook it up to the Internet.

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LiquorFan@pathfinder.social
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I’m never buying a “smart” anything, aside from phones. I put up with Android and it already feels like too much.

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RustyWizard@programming.dev
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By all means. But “smart” TVs come at a discount because they believe they’ll have opportunities to make revenue off of those features. However, if you prevent the thing from connecting to the Internet then you get the best of both worlds. Cheaper and ad free.

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Nioxic@lemmy.world
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What is “media box”?

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RustyWizard@programming.dev
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Chromecast, Kodi, Roku, Apple TV, Nvidia shield, fire TV, etc.

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d0m@lemmy.world
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You don’t get any dumb TVs in my country anymore. I’d assume its the same everywhere else unless you’re going back a minimum 5 years of tech evolution, which might not be all too bad.

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