Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Read the incoming video signal from an HDMI input, inject and render an ad over top of it (like a lower 3rd banner for example), and display it on your screen.

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    oh sick, overlay streaming. Yeah, ok, remind me to never give money to corporations again.

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• Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Probably injecting the ads into blank screen periods.

  Maybe we should bring back screensavers, would really fuck with devices like this that look for blank screen time that would simply never occur.

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i think a better option is not buying adware hardware.

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    • Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Obviously but it could become very hard to do that with Smart TVs dominating the space now.

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        smart TVs are their own shitfest, frankly, if you don’t want to deal with them, i hear you can just buy commercial signage displays. Which are basically just TVs but without the smart part.

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