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Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Easy solution. Don't plug the tv into the internet.

Use it basically as a monitor. 🖕To the tv makers

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Then how would I run my private Plex server?

[–] wagesj45@fedia.io 28 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Run Jellyfin instead. I don't know how Plex has stayed as popular as it has.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Easy, Plex can pass the spouse test. Jellyfin has yet to pass the spouse test...it's getting there though

[–] HarriPotero@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

My spouse has switched from Plex to Jellyfin

Maybe it's time to try again? Or consider another spouse?

[–] neo2478@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I tried Jellyfin and the performance for me was sooo much worse than Plex on the same system. Videos took forever to play. Also Plex is way easier for me to share with family than Jellyfin.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 3 months ago

You can check to see if you can enable hardware transcoding. I find the delay is usually transcoding building up a buffer and if you have a good GPU/APU in your server it's often a lot quicker.

Pretty sure on jellyfin by default that is off. Mainly because you need to install some packages to get the devices available under linux usually.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 1 points 3 months ago

If you were playing videos with subtitles on android, you might have run into the slow subtitle burn in bug.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/11938

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

Because it's straight better lol

[–] MisterMoo@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

I have a private Plex server and all TVs disconnected from the internet. What does one have to do with the other?

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Isolate the smart TV in restricted VLAN in your home network that can access your local media server but doesn’t allow internet access.

Segmenting a home network like this is also a good idea for smart home/IoT devices.

[–] ANIMATEK@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Downvoted for what?

I recommend either an AppleTV to watch WEB-DL or a Nvidia Shield Pro for REMUX if you don't have a Samsung TV; otherwise a Zidoo.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have no cable and my TV isn't hooked to anything except a Chromecast so I can stream to it. Can TVs send stuff out over Chromecast? I feel like it's no but?

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

No.

HDMI does have a feature called Ethernet over HDMI that in theory could allow that.

Thing is though it’s literally never been implemented in anything. It died because cheap WiFi became common.

For it to work you’d need both the TV and Chromecast and HDMI cable all to support it. It’s not uncommon on cables and a surprising amount of them include it in features list (probably to trick low info people).

But I believe that’s a hardware design thing so not something even a software update could enable. It costs extra money and they’re already paying for a WiFi chip so why bother?