I watch about an hour of TV every other day. Why would I pay upwards of $30 per month to a cable provider or $10 per month to Netflix for a service that I barely use?
I'm about three miles from my city's main TV transmitter. An HDTV antenna was $30, installed discreetly on my apartment's balcony. The content itself is free with ads that can be ignored via the "MUTE" button.
HDTV is free, works fine, and actually delivers a better signal than the compressed junk that cable companies give you. Win-win-win.
Still a lot of parts of the US with spotty cell service, so the TV will have to work (to some extent) without it. Icepick through the antenna cable (or just disconnect it), and voila! disconnected TV!
The only thing I'm interested in when a commercial is displayed is pushing the MUTE button and doing something else for the duration. There are NO ads that are relevant to me.
I've never owned a new house, car, computer, I generally buy household goods based on the ingredient list and what's cheapest on sale.
If it's tied to a pay account...
(1) Address
(2) Credit card #
(3) How often the TV is turned on. When are the customers home. What are their habits?
If there's a camera in the TV...
(1) How many people are watching
(2) Possibly facial data (identity)
(3) Facial expression data (boredom, happiness, etc)
The issue isn't ads. The issue is customer data collection (aka privacy theft).
They need demographic data to target ads. They'll know what you're watching, WHEN you're watching. Possibly what is going on in your home via a smart TV's camera.
The media companies will be able to build a detailed profile of when you're home, how long, how much free time you have, etc. Depending on how this is set up, it might be anonymous, but it might also be tied to a name and address.
I'm anti-freedom. One of the proper functions of government is to keep corporations on a tight leash and restrict their ability to violate customers' privacy. Otherwise, all corporations will violate customers' privacy -- there simply isn't enough of a market for privacy unless it's created by force.
I live in an old apartment building -- thick masonry walls make for poor reception, so the phone is in airplane mode most of the time.
Otherwise, it eats battery trying to get a signal. Want to call me? Do so on my landline with "2500" phone!
Also, the mic in most phones is directional and awful for picking up sound from a distance. The cameras? They have a nice shot of the ceiling if the phone is laid flat to charge.
IoT junk with mics and cameras, on the other hand, is DESIGNED to listen.
Kodi and other services will still exist -- just use the TV as an HDMI display and skip the ads:) Exactly what the broadcasters want, right -- more people being pushed towards "ad free" versions of their content.
ATSC 1.0 works without an Internet connection for two-way communication. Sounds like its replacement will require each TV to be a connected device. This actually takes away a major advantage of over-the-air TV: that it's free and available without Internet.
If every TV will need Internet, then people might as well just watch Amazon or Netflix online -- over-the-air broadcasters are actually putting themselves out of business.
Me? I'll be at the Pirate Bay or enjoying theater and concerts in real life if this happens. No way that I'll ever allow a connected device with camera, screen, and mic into my home (aka a Telescreen from 1984).
This is why I like the cheaper handsets (Blu, lower-end Moto, low-end LG). Not only are they cheaper to buy, they're cheaper to maintain -- being able to pop in a new battery or more storage is a real advantage if you're keeping a phone for 3-4 years instead of being a Trendy Wendy who wants the latest and greatest.
I have a Moto G4 Play phone. Not old. Bought last year. It has... drumroll please.. a removable battery and micro-SD card.
Battery bulging would just pop off the back cover, worst case. $20 for a new battery, and it pops right in, same as a Blackberry from 10 years ago.
Storage? I can pop in a micro-SD card and expand it. No waiting for 2 hours at the Apple store. Both of the problems that you mentioned weren't intrinsic to the iPhone, but rather caused by Apple's (and many other similar phones') boneheaded designs.
Scalpers can sell their tickets at a profit. Clearly they're charging what the market can bear. If venues raised their prices to near what the market can bear and sold tickets online directly using an easy-to-use system, the profit motive for scalping would go away. Real question is, why aren't venues selling directly at more of a profit?
What would be wrong with publishing a specific salary, seeing how many candidates bite? If it's too low, then people won't be interested. Raise it a bit, repeat.
Why play the guessing game with new hires and interviewees or base present salaries on past salaries in a database? Place a bid for labor. If no one responds, then raise the bid.
CCTV footage is typically local and is recorded on a loop of several days, after which it's overwritten. Also, facial recognition and analysis takes some work.
It's not as simple as being able to say "John Doe of 10 Penny Lane, Podunk, NE, bought item 1, 2, and 3 on Nov 5, 2018." Online shopping is much simpler to analyze.
Retail has much more privacy after the fact, especially if you wait a week or two.
If he wants a 12" screen, X220s can be had for about $150 refurb. Plop in an SSD, 8GB of RAM, price is under $250. Fast, solid, indestructible laptop.
If he wants 14"-15", the Thinkpad T4x0 and T5x0 series are great.
These machines aren't sexy or "cool", but they'll last him 4-5 years, can run Linux or even MacOS if he wants to tinker, and (with an SSD), will take a lot of abuse (falling down dorm stairs, etc).
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No, I mean concerts and live theater that are unlikely to be broadcast.
I watch about an hour of TV every other day. Why would I pay upwards of $30 per month to a cable provider or $10 per month to Netflix for a service that I barely use?
I'm about three miles from my city's main TV transmitter. An HDTV antenna was $30, installed discreetly on my apartment's balcony. The content itself is free with ads that can be ignored via the "MUTE" button.
HDTV is free, works fine, and actually delivers a better signal than the compressed junk that cable companies give you. Win-win-win.
Good luck getting over-the-air data from tens of thousands of devices back to a TV station 20-30 miles away to work reliably.
Sure they do -- trans fat bans.
Most people don't care about eating healthy food. Should we abandon all food safety standards?
Still a lot of parts of the US with spotty cell service, so the TV will have to work (to some extent) without it. Icepick through the antenna cable (or just disconnect it), and voila! disconnected TV!
The only thing I'm interested in when a commercial is displayed is pushing the MUTE button and doing something else for the duration. There are NO ads that are relevant to me.
I've never owned a new house, car, computer, I generally buy household goods based on the ingredient list and what's cheapest on sale.
If it's tied to a pay account ...
(1) Address
(2) Credit card #
(3) How often the TV is turned on. When are the customers home. What are their habits?
If there's a camera in the TV...
(1) How many people are watching
(2) Possibly facial data (identity)
(3) Facial expression data (boredom, happiness, etc)
None of these services are over-the-air TV.
The issue isn't ads. The issue is customer data collection (aka privacy theft).
They need demographic data to target ads. They'll know what you're watching, WHEN you're watching. Possibly what is going on in your home via a smart TV's camera.
The media companies will be able to build a detailed profile of when you're home, how long, how much free time you have, etc. Depending on how this is set up, it might be anonymous, but it might also be tied to a name and address.
I'm anti-freedom. One of the proper functions of government is to keep corporations on a tight leash and restrict their ability to violate customers' privacy. Otherwise, all corporations will violate customers' privacy -- there simply isn't enough of a market for privacy unless it's created by force.
I live in an old apartment building -- thick masonry walls make for poor reception, so the phone is in airplane mode most of the time.
Otherwise, it eats battery trying to get a signal. Want to call me? Do so on my landline with "2500" phone!
Also, the mic in most phones is directional and awful for picking up sound from a distance. The cameras? They have a nice shot of the ceiling if the phone is laid flat to charge.
IoT junk with mics and cameras, on the other hand, is DESIGNED to listen.
... will consist of two channels - one having re-runs of Jersey Shore, the other with the 11 o'clock news on an hour's repeating loop.
Kodi and other services will still exist -- just use the TV as an HDMI display and skip the ads :) Exactly what the broadcasters want, right -- more people being pushed towards "ad free" versions of their content.
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Make sure they hear about it -- privacy is important, turning all TVs into IoT devices is stupid...
ATSC 1.0 works without an Internet connection for two-way communication. Sounds like its replacement will require each TV to be a connected device. This actually takes away a major advantage of over-the-air TV: that it's free and available without Internet.
If every TV will need Internet, then people might as well just watch Amazon or Netflix online -- over-the-air broadcasters are actually putting themselves out of business.
Me? I'll be at the Pirate Bay or enjoying theater and concerts in real life if this happens. No way that I'll ever allow a connected device with camera, screen, and mic into my home (aka a Telescreen from 1984).
Exactly. WebTV updated for the 2010s :)
Except that iPhone battery capacity is actually the same or smaller than many devices with removable battery...
This is why I like the cheaper handsets (Blu, lower-end Moto, low-end LG). Not only are they cheaper to buy, they're cheaper to maintain -- being able to pop in a new battery or more storage is a real advantage if you're keeping a phone for 3-4 years instead of being a Trendy Wendy who wants the latest and greatest.
I have a Moto G4 Play phone. Not old. Bought last year. It has ... drumroll please .. a removable battery and micro-SD card.
Battery bulging would just pop off the back cover, worst case. $20 for a new battery, and it pops right in, same as a Blackberry from 10 years ago.
Storage? I can pop in a micro-SD card and expand it. No waiting for 2 hours at the Apple store. Both of the problems that you mentioned weren't intrinsic to the iPhone, but rather caused by Apple's (and many other similar phones') boneheaded designs.
Scalpers can sell their tickets at a profit. Clearly they're charging what the market can bear. If venues raised their prices to near what the market can bear and sold tickets online directly using an easy-to-use system, the profit motive for scalping would go away. Real question is, why aren't venues selling directly at more of a profit?
What would be wrong with publishing a specific salary, seeing how many candidates bite? If it's too low, then people won't be interested. Raise it a bit, repeat.
Why play the guessing game with new hires and interviewees or base present salaries on past salaries in a database? Place a bid for labor. If no one responds, then raise the bid.
CCTV footage is typically local and is recorded on a loop of several days, after which it's overwritten. Also, facial recognition and analysis takes some work.
It's not as simple as being able to say "John Doe of 10 Penny Lane, Podunk, NE, bought item 1, 2, and 3 on Nov 5, 2018." Online shopping is much simpler to analyze.
Retail has much more privacy after the fact, especially if you wait a week or two.
T450s comes with geForce 940M. They work fine for gaming, believe it or not...
If he wants a 12" screen, X220s can be had for about $150 refurb. Plop in an SSD, 8GB of RAM, price is under $250. Fast, solid, indestructible laptop.
If he wants 14"-15", the Thinkpad T4x0 and T5x0 series are great.
These machines aren't sexy or "cool", but they'll last him 4-5 years, can run Linux or even MacOS if he wants to tinker, and (with an SSD), will take a lot of abuse (falling down dorm stairs, etc).