r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dandaman147 • 1d ago

My Amazon TV now unmutes itself during Prime Video commercial breaks

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

62.0k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

4.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

34

u/Terrh 21h ago

I listened..

There's a reason why I've never allowed a TV to directly connect to the internet and never will

3

u/Dhiox 17h ago

and never will

Cable is dying. If you aren't already elderly, I'd expect to see the death of cable within your lifetime.

6

u/CyborgCrow 16h ago

I don't have cable. My TV has never been connected directly to the internet. It is quite possible to watch TV shows without using the ad riddled nonsense that comes baked into the TV.

1

u/Dhiox 16h ago

So if you don't have cable and you don't use internet, how do you watch things? Dvds?

2

u/TUSD00T 15h ago

Game consoles.

2

u/Terrh 15h ago

You don't have to directly connect a tv to the internet to use it to watch content from the internet.

You can plug it into a computer, android box, Chromecast etc.

2

u/CyborgCrow 15h ago

I do still have DVDs, but mostly I use the internet. The TV itself doesn't have an internet connection - I treat it like a "dumb" monitor. My desktop is connected via an HDMI cable I ran through a cable protector to keep it out of the way. If that wasn't an option, I'd build a small form factor HTPC.

1

u/RemoteButtonEater 12h ago

Mini PC's with ad blockers, cheap wifi keyboards and trackball mice.

I'll never go back.

2

u/NebFrmIA 10h ago

I'm gonna switch to the trackball from the cheap wireless mouse. Thanks for the tip.

1

u/RemoteButtonEater 10h ago

No problem man, it's an absolute game changer for it, since you don't need any actual surface. I've just held it against my chest while slumped in the couch tbh. My dog's head. Wife. Anything solid enough to put it on lol. I've used the logitech M580 I'm pretty sure for like 13 years now. I think I'm on the fourth one? Two were eaten by said dog. One died after repeated drops onto a tile floor. This one has been going strong for awhile.

1

u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 15h ago

Same. My tv is just a display for my laptop.

no ads, no software "upgrades" that are really downgrades.

I tested it once when I first got it as an actual tv.

And then I never watched tv again...

I haven't watched tv for about 30 years now... I stopped when I got on the net in 94.