LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions
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Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you're ready to cough up after buying hardware

LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service”::Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you’re ready to cough up after buying hardware

    • RustyWizardEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Chromecast, Kodi, Roku, Apple TV, Nvidia shield, fire TV, etc.

      • eleitl@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Fire TV firmware also just gets worse and worse with each new version. Netflix app also follows suit.

        • RustyWizardEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Does it? I’ve never had one. I have a Kodi box and a Chromecast. I’ll be sure to avoid the fire brand, then.

          • eleitl@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            The one saving grace is that it’s cheap and you can install Kodi on it.

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I have a Fire Stick and a newer Vizio TV. For a while I could tell Alexa to turn in the TV: the Fire Stick would turn on, then use HDMI-CEC to turn on the TV and select its input. Worked great and I didn’t have to deal with Vizio

        Then at some point Alexa started controlling the TV itself instead. Now I have to choose whether to deal with Vizio or to do more clicks to get to my streaming device. I really need to figure out how to get the original configuration back