Snap should just be able to go into count and ask the judge to dismiss the lawsuit pending Dolby having a successful lawsuit against AOMedia directly. If Dolby is successful in that lawsuit then Snap can either a) Pay Dolby for licensing the codec. b) Discontinue use of the codec.

The legal system needs changes. Why is an initial lawsuit being filed against one of many end users of this codec? It should be required that Dolby brings an initial lawsuit against the developer of the codec AOMedia. If they successfully win that lawsuit then they can start targeting end users who either don't appropriately licence said coded from the winner of the lawsuit or continue to use the codec and not switch to something else.

Projectors are a good option too most of those are unmolested by "smart tv" features so far. They are only just starting to creep into some of them. I've got a nice 1080p Epson 1985WU connected to a Google TV Streamer that projects on to a 100" screen. It's got two HDMI inputs that can do split screen video sources so it's like having 2 50" tvs side by side. Those two HDMI inputs go into a 4x2 HDMI matrix switch and I can put any of those 4 inputs on the switch into 2 of the HDMI inputs on the projector.

LOL 25year old flat screen? What is it a 5 inch thick 480p EDTV Plasma?

Paying extra for a Vizio TV? I thought they were almost always in the "budget category" A Samsung, LC, Panasonic, Sony would almost always cost more.

Honestly this isn't that unfeasible. Amazon and other online retailers are probably already doing it. The only thing stopping brick and morter from doing it is how long it takes to update price tags. The digital ones solve this problem.

I mean look at the back walking MS is now doing with ramming AI down our throats in every corner of Win 11 and the rest of their ecosystem of apps. For MS it might be too little too late with the Mac Neo having come out and a huge percent of the population already in the Apple ecosystem because of their phones and likely to wander that direction when it comes time for their next PC purchase, and then there's Linux for the rest of us. I finally got fed up with the MS bloat and AI bullshit last summer and took the dive into Linux Mint on my PC. I wish I had done it sooner. The experience is wonderful. Unfortunately I still have to deal with the MS Win11 BS for 8-9hr a day on my work laptop. It's absolutely frustrating to use compared to my laptop with Mint and other various open source productivity packages installed.

Another option is for stores to be open about the frequency of the pricing changes. They could say something like we update pricing every 3hrs at 9a 12p 3p 6p and 9p. That gives customers the start their shopping right after a price change and the option to make their way to checkout before the prices change. Stores will have to get used to the waves of customers.

Theres generally no law per se that im aware of. But most stores will honor pricing discrepancies between what comes up at checkout and was was on the shelf label if you catch it and call it out when they ring it up. If it's a small amount they might just go on the honor system if its a large discrepancy they might call someone in the dept or send someone to do a price check and confirm. The problem happens when they start changing pricing with very short intervals perhaps maybe every 15 min could very well mean that the price you saw when you picked an item off the shelf and then spent another hour wandering around the store shopping and now the price is different. One way to eliminate this is by either using a store app on the customers phone or the store providing a checkout scanner customers can scan items as they pick them and that price it was at that time stays locked in their virtual cart on the app or scanner. Then I guess like a self checkout you could just pay in the app, or you goto a checkout where the cashier confirms the items you have, rings them up and you pay.

I mean technically that can happen even today with paper labels but tends not to due to the cost of sending someone out to manually update labels. Stores would these days likely update pricing on a daily basis while they are sending people out to restock the shelves after hours.

I see nothing wrong with the digital labels as well. They eliminate paper and time waste. However law makers should probably get in front of any dynamic pricing issues. Perhaps put a max limit to the number of times a price can change per day.

I would imagine they still do have them so long as there is still a paper issue being delivered. Not just public libraries, but I even remember grade school libraries having a copy of the current day's news paper. They loaded it up in this wooden thing daily to keep the pages bound in the proper order since kids would end up fucking that up if they weren't bound.

If the cable companies didn't see this coming a decade ago, I don't feel sorry for them. They should have been building out their infrastructure for IP transport so once we got to this point they could have just gone full in on IP transport and just dropped the linear tv programming.

4chan operates in the US and is only subject to US law. Ofcom is well within their right to install a 4chan block in the great firewall of the UK or redirect traffic to an ID check captive portal till their subjects prove they are worthy to access 4chan.

In Florida once a Hurricane warning is in place, legally stores can't price gouge. Same with gas when everyone starts filling up to evacuate or to have a full tank for after the storm.