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I just finished setting up a custom router with dns ad blocking. Next comes a media player so I can purge this smart TV filth from my household.
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Get a cheap computer and connect the tv to it; get a mouse and bluetooth keyboard or an air mouse if your want to; install kodi perhaps, or just have your bare desktop. Problem solved
Disconnect the tv to wifi too.
There are some cheap Bluetooth TV remotes so if you want to take some time out of your day, there's a few Linux distros that ship with similar GUI to some TV's.
Apple TV was the best media thing I’ve bought in over a decade. No ads ever, incredibly responsive (league of its own compared to stuff like Roku), and is able to stream from my Jellyfin server. Beautiful interface, fast, clean, simple controller with a battery life that is easily over a year. Just a really good product. Roku can suck by nuts. Literal full page ads in a product that advertises that it has zero of them. Even the most expensive version. Fuck Roku.
Same here. One is the best made TV boxes period.
how does it go for codec support out of Jellyfin? I'm starting to collect and also rip AV1 content, which is fine for computers and phones (and my newer TV does it natively), but trying to find a streambox that wouldn't need to transcode it is proving harder than expected
Shield pro is the best, end of story
Are they still making those or are they all 5+ years old (2019 was latest I could find on eBay)?
It software decodes AV1 which seems to work fine. For Plex, I think you still need to do this: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/12pe5tx/av1_playback_on_apple_tv/
The bigger limitation is audio. The Apple TV does lossless audio but what it does not do is TrueHD/Atmos or DTS:X. With Infuse TrueHD and DTS-HD MA are decoded on the device and sent out as LPCM in the same quality they were received. With Plex TrueHD is transcoded to FLAC by the server and sent out as LPCM by the Apple TV. Atmos and DTS:X metadata is lost. The Apple TV will never send out DD+. It will be sent out as 5.1 or 7.1 LPCM. DD+/Atmos is sent out Dolby MAT encapsulated in LPCM.
Long story short, it's good enough if you don't use atmos ceiling speakers.
Have a previous gen 4K, and have not encountered any issues with Jellyfin on streaming. There's a spectacularly annoying bug that you lose your config if the atv is full to capacity - and with kids in the house it means frequent logins are required. The iOS client also seems to lag on features and updates compared to the other clients, but other than that niggle it's been great.
Yo dawg! I heard you like ads. So we put ads in your ads
Don’t ever connect a “smart” tv to the internet. Period.
I mean... Historically I find the superbowl ads (and the halftime show) more entertaining than the actual game, but damn that is shitty.
meta-ad-ception
Ads within an ad, about about ads.
Congratulations! So, how does the TV work with the adblocker set up?
It's absolutely no different! The TV is doing something weird to get around it, or these ads are just cached from earlier. I'm not sure yet. Good news is that the ad blockers definitely works, we're getting 96/100 on https://adblock-tester.com/
Check for HTTPS traffic as well as the regular let 53. They could be doing DNS over HTTPS to get around the block, or a static IP for a nameserver.
DNS calls are definitely cached. You'll have to wait a few days until your TV refreshes DNS entries.
is this about the stupid football thing?
Yeah I guess the superbowl is soon, there's another row of football ads one or two rows up. I'll remind myself that I paid for the TV, the electricity to run it, and the bandwidth to connect it, yet I'm still shown full screen ads first thing when I turn my TV on. And I don't even watch football. And I can't disable it.
Corporate America and gargle my balls
Sorry, I'm confused. You should easily be able to block these home screen ads ads with pihole or router dns blocking. I know because I do it with my smart tvs. Are you saying that that isn't working?
We have not owned a TV since the 00s and have no intention of buying one any time soon, but I had a look at the FUTO website you linked and it's interesting read (even for the non-expert I'm).
Thx for sharing :)