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Comment Re:Just wait (Score 1) 204

Youtube is going to do the same as all the other platforms. Take Amazon for example. Prime video used to be free. Then they started putting advertisements in. Other platforms have done similar shitty things. Start pushing ads and then offer a premium tier where you pay more for not seeing them. Nothing but pure greed. Fuck them.

Comment Re:I shouldn't need an account to use my TV... (Score 1) 26

Excuse my ignorance, is it possible to use the TV as a dumb display through the HDMI port (without logging into an account), and watch contents from another streamer box?

That is exactly how I use my Roku tv. I was almost ready to return the tv the first time I powered it up. Any signal through the hdmi ports was laggy and the antenna signals were almost non existent. So reluctantly I connected an ethernet cable and tried to allow it to update. Their dhcp implementation was very broken. It would accept an ip address but substitute it's own default route and of course fail. So it finally took setting a static dhcp lease and then it updated successfully. I immediately unplugged the ethernet cable when it was rebooting and it's been fine ever since. That was the one and only time it was internet connected. Although now I hear the newer models won't even function until you connect and let them download a license agreement.

But I'm not complaining over a 58" 4k tv that was $350 on black friday.

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