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The Vizio TV that you bought with hard-earned cash has a new feature; Jump Ads. Vizio will first identify what is on your screen and then place interactive banner ads over live TV programs.
LG and Samsung have both redesigned their Smart TV platform to more prominently display ads and highlight content from partners, much like Android TV. Meanwhile, owners of Roku TVs have complained about banner ads on live TV.
Vizio is no stranger to Smart TV ads and the company is now taking it a step further with so-called Jump Ads.
- "Jump Ads represent yet another step in VIZIO's ongoing mission to unify the smart TV experience with features that benefit viewers, content providers and advertisers," said Adam Bergman, VP of sales, Vizio Ads.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The_Deacon on Monday April 04 2022, @11:50PM (1 child)
I've used nothing but projectors since about 2004. If you wait until your bulb burns out to buy a replacement, yeah you'll possibly be looking at $300-500 for a bulb. So do what I do: buy a spare bulb along with the projector! When you buy the bulb for an in-production projector, it's usually cheap - I last spent $130 for a spare OE bulb, and nowadays some OE bulbs are around $90. Or I could've bought a cheap clone time-bomb replacement for $38 off AliExpress. Funny thing, since I had a spare, the original bulb never burned out ... I'm sure there's some Murphy's Law corollary for that! 7 years later, over 4000 hours on the bulb, and the original is still going -- it takes about 2x as long to warm up to full brightness now as it did when new, but the picture is great.
Modern projectors have "EcoMode" where they dim the bulb by 20-30%, and that extends the life of the bulb by 100% or more. So if you overprovision on lumens, you can run the projector in EcoMode all the time, and expect a 5000-6000 hour lifespan out of one bulb. Need a 1500-lumen projector? Buy a 2000-lumen unit and a spare bulb, run it in EcoMode, and never worry about the bulb burning out. Bonus: by the time you decide to sell it and upgrade, if the original bulb hasn't given up the ghost, you can sell the projector with a brand-new bulb for top dollar. Or sell the spare bulb by itself for $300-500 or whatever the going rate is at the time.
And don't worry about optics getting dirty inside the projector. Unless you get a crappily-designed one, the optical path on a DLP projector will be 99.999% dust free. You may need to clean the output lenses from time to time, but I've never needed to clean the optics of any of my three projectors over the past 18 years. Once I did get a speck of dust inside my old LCD projector, so it can happen, that's why I left the 0.0001% in there. :) But anecdotally from my experience over 10,000 hours with a single dust speck, you'll be fine.
I love the projector vs the TV. The only annoyance is needing to manage ambient light -- my setup basically requires me to watch movies at night, or install blackout shades. Considering that I work most days, this isn't a problem -- I watch movies at night. But every once in a while, I wish I could watch TV or play games mid-day without it being a hassle. And then I read stories like this, and I am reminded why I don't do "smart" TVs. :) I can manage the hassle instead. Or convince my wife to spring for some blackout shades.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 05 2022, @02:11AM
And this is the problem with projectors. They are good for adults who only watch movies, and nothing else. Most people want to be able to watch TV whenever they want, or they have kids who want to watch it after school, or on weekends, and it's just not acceptable to have a TV that only works at odd hours.
Or you can build a dedicated theater room, which is great if you're a one percenter, but most people need to put their TV in the living room.