To think that modern TVs with all the "apps" are not great?

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comoatoupeira · 03/02/2025 21:26

I just got a modern TV where you turn it on and it offers you all these different apps. It bothers me that iPlayer is just one app, when the BBC is so much better quality than most of the crap that is on there. I think it's a shame that while we are in the UK the TV doesn't put the UK channels front and centre. I worry that no one will watch the stuff that's usually really good, because now it's quite hard to find and buried in all this other stuff that is mostly from America.
Also I don't like how you do a search and it shows you lots of stuff you have to pay for, it's like asking you to make purchasing decisions and engage that part of your brain when you just wanted to switch on your TV which you already paid for to watch TV which you already paid a licence to have!
BTW I am not very old (34) so it's not because I'm 'out of touch'. I really think the decision choices aren't the right thing for the media options there are now.
Thanks! sorry bit of a ramble.

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comoatoupeira · 03/02/2025 21:59

HPandthelastwish · 03/02/2025 21:58

Have you looked at the settings to uninstall the things you don't want? Or send it back and get a non smart TV. Seems daft to buy one and then complain about it

Yes I will, for myself.
I'm just concerned about what these do to the market though. More of a long term wonder.

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rivalsbinge · 03/02/2025 21:58

Hate to tell you they have all just monetised the time when you pick up the remote and scroll betwen channels to targeted ads.

It's not in the UK yet it's all about spend spend spend.

I'm with you 100% just wanted to buy my elderly mum a bog standard TV but took me most of 2 hours to set the bloody thing up with all the apps and logins.

HPandthelastwish · 03/02/2025 21:58

Have you looked at the settings to uninstall the things you don't want? Or send it back and get a non smart TV. Seems daft to buy one and then complain about it

BitchinTwinset · 03/02/2025 21:55

Bloody hate it. It's a visual mess. I can get back to my Freeview display though, which my kids are used to.

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comoatoupeira · 03/02/2025 21:54

Not mine, mine shows everything all jumped together, Prime, Netflix, something called "Rakuten" (?), Disney, none of which I am subscribed to. Then there's always an autoplay thing at the top where a video is playing silently, that distracts my kids. In order to find the normal channels, I have to go into the search bar and "search" by typing on a clunky keyboard "BBC 1" for example.
If you haven't been brought up with those channels, who's going to do that? You're just going to click on the fancy banners on the home page. It will kill the content.

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Valid8me · 03/02/2025 21:48

The UK channels are front and centre aren't they? My TV has BBC1, BBC2, ITV and then Channel 4 right at the front, I have to physically click on APPS to get those.

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