We mostly watch news and sports in my house. So unfortunately, live TV. Occasionally we watch other things. I mute the commercials and browse my phone when they’re on.

But I would love a TV that is smart enough to auto hide & mute every kind of ad. Even little logos on the athletes’ uniforms. Hide the ads on the pitcher’s mound. Hide the billboards and signs in the stadium. Show some cool little generic animation, music video, or slide show during commercial breaks. Hide the damned popup window ads and scrolling ads that some channels do. Remove product placements from movies and shows. Basically make all ads completely vanish.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Sorry, but the only AI TV you’ll get has the job of analyzing your habits and selecting additional ads especially for you while completely trampling on your right or privacy.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    It wouldn’t be a TV itself, it would be an extra box you feed the TV signal into for filtering, then out to the TV itself.

    This has been done previously for language filtering with hilarious results. It was called “TVGuardian”, oh, almost 30 years ago now.

    It translated “the Dick Van Dyke Show” to “Jerk Van Gay”.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      To be fair, Dick Van Dyke is ALREADY a hilarious name. Not even sure how that made it past 1950s censors who wouldn’t let Ricky and Lucy sleep in the same bed, or Barbra Eden show her belly button.

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    Unfortunately this does not financially benefit the tv manufacturers, and may land them in trouble with the platforms they themselves advertise on (like Google).

    They’re more likely to use AI to serve you more ads as an extra revenue stream; capitalism has gotta capital.

  • Haxle@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I recently read Contact(the book by Carl Sagan, still need to watch the movie), which features a tech billionaire who built his wealth doing exactly that. He developed a chip that could block TV commercials, and later one to filter televangelists as well.

    For a book that was published in the 80s and set in the late 90s, it’s prescient in a few very specific ways. We weren’t exactly communicating by Portable Telefax in 1999, but adblockers were not far away either.