Re:My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commer...
by BeetleB on Friday January 10, 2025 @11:30AM
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Of these, the only thing I would like is automatic volume control, and HW only versions have existed for a long time.
Auto-brightness - I put in a lot of effort in setting the brightness/contrast, and would really not want some SW messing it up.
Voice control - couldn't care less (and yes, I do own voice assistants and use them).
Re:My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commer...
by pandaman on Friday January 10, 2025 @05:32PM
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Something claiming to be X doesn't mean it's X at all least good at being X. This option on tube TVs that I had never worked for commercials, works so well that I don't notice it on a "smart" TV.
If you don't want auto-brigntness you don't have to enable it. I have a hunch that a TV sets it better (just for the reason that you are unlikely to adjust every time you turn lights on and off) but tastes do differ indeed.
Only you know what is important to you, but I like automatic volume levels, for example. I stayed at AirBnB a couple years ago, which had some commodity TV (Vizio?) w/o automatic volume and learned they still do loud commercials. My home TV keeps volume at the same audible level during commercials. Same with auto-brightness, I get nice image all through the day and night illumination levels in the living room. Voice control is handy when you don't live alone so other people may have a remote at the moment or it could take some time to find.
Apps on my 6 y.o. TV still work just fine, I don't need to attach devices to a TV, which neatly hangs on a wall without things hanging from it. The TV is running Android so it will keep updating from the Google's app store as long as the app vendor keeps maintaining it.