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Has anyone bitched about the Toshiba LED TV commercials where the CEO imagines the horrific consequences of not putting WiFi in their TVs? Well, if not, I am.
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Sep 16, 2011 23:23
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 Televisions have been going perfectly fine without WiFi for decades... why would there be a difference now?
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Sep 16, 2011 23:42
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Malachite_Dragon posted:
Because if you don't have WiFi in your TV, satellites will crash to the earth!
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Sep 16, 2011 23:50
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Malachite_Dragon posted:
Well, to be honest, a lot of newer home entertainment items are becoming more Internet-capable, so you can watch Hulu or Netflix on them, but something like 90% homes have the phone or networking outlets nowhere near the living room. So, the options are string a dozen of feet of cable through the most heavy traffic area of the house; spend hundreds of dollars to get a contractor to route the cable to an outlet near a potential TV area; or go WiFi. Also, more convenient connections with stuff like laptops and mobile devices, which is especially handy for business presentations.
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Sep 17, 2011 00:45
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Apparently, then, I'm in the minority here because when I get a television, I get it to play games on or to, y'know, watch some loving television. If I want to do computer poo poo, I've got a computer well and truly separate. I see no reason to combine the two. Goddammit I'm 21 and I'm already going "You loving kids and your newfangled inventions, IN MY DAY   " If people can't handle being in a separate room from their TV while using their laptop, then I don't think they should be allowed to have either one. They clearly aren't mature enough to focus on one source of entertainment at a time.
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Sep 17, 2011 00:51
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DJExile posted:I don't get people bugging out over the Taco Bell guy. You might as well rip into every car commercial ever because you'll never be doing 150MPH in the Great Salt Flats or something. I don't really get it either. No it's not realistic and it is kind of dumb, but it's not nearly as obnoxious as a lot of ads out there. At least it's pretty easy to ignore and doesn't get stuck in your head even though you hate it (goddamn Education Connection). Bodnoirbabe posted:It seems you get the same commercial during the entire show you're watching, over and over again. Just like regular TV! 
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Sep 17, 2011 01:07
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Apparently, then, I'm in the minority here because when I get a television, I get it to play games on or to, y'know, watch some loving television. If I want to do computer poo poo, I've got a computer well and truly separate. I see no reason to combine the two. Goddammit I'm 21 and I'm already going "You loving kids and your newfangled inventions, IN MY DAY The post before yours listed a bunch of practical (and would-be common) applications for wifi capabilities (Netflix, Hulu, other streaming media, potentially easier connectivity for media on a computer), but you get bent out of shape because it's not playing video games or watching television (and apparently only programming received via cable, satellite, or antenna qualify)? Keep fighting the good fight, brosef.
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Sep 17, 2011 01:21
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Apparently, then, I'm in the minority here because when I get a television, I get it to play games on or to, y'know, watch some loving television. If I want to do computer poo poo, I've got a computer well and truly separate. I see no reason to combine the two. So, wait, are you saying that Netflix\Hulu is strictly "computer poo poo"? Because being able to access both directly from a TV sounds pretty convenient for me, not having to connect in another device or boot something up on it...
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Sep 17, 2011 02:08
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Awesome Welles posted:So, wait, are you saying that Netflix\Hulu is strictly "computer poo poo"? Because being able to access both directly from a TV sounds pretty convenient for me, not having to connect in another device or boot something up on it... In my defense, I left the tab open for a bit and didn't know Young Freud had posted in between my beginning and finishing my little poo poo-fit there  I watch Netflix on my TV through my 360; I don't have a problem with Netflix and Hulu being on it, what I don't get is why people are so adamant about combining a television and a computer, when you've already got a perfectly serviceable television that still works and shouldn't need to be replaced for just one new-fangled feature. I don't own a laptop or any mobile device bigger then my cellphone (which is NOT a smartphone) so I just haven't been exposed to any real need for Wi-Fi from the TV, I supose.tl;dr: I'm old and set in my ways.
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Sep 17, 2011 02:34
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Malachite_Dragon posted:In my defense, I left the tab open for a bit and didn't know Young Freud had posted in between my beginning and finishing my little poo poo-fit there My dad isn't very good with computers, to say the least. He can basically check his email and pay his bills online. Last christmas I bought him a internet-ready bluray disc player and the wireless adapter. Since then he has opened a Netflix streaming account, started a facebook account, watches a bunch of stuff on HuluPlus, buys movies from Amazon's VOD service, has a youtube account and channel, and started a Pandora account. He does all of this from his TV and yet still requires me to create new folders in his hotmail account. It really is the way things are heading. The PC started to become the main media and entertainment source in the house, but it's slowly moving back to the TV. Personally I think it's awesome. Go mess around with a GoogleTV box if you ever get the chance, it's really cool.
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Sep 17, 2011 02:48
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Bodnoirbabe posted:And you've completely missed what I was saying. Irony is not limited to the ONE definition, the one you've quoted, which is literary irony. Irony has quite a few different definitions. The song being called "Ironic" doesn't mean it has to be that one definition. Anything is ironic if it hits one of the definitions. No, I got your point, oh master of Wikipedia searches. The lyrics are still not examples of irony. Bodnoirbabe posted:Hence, the majority of examples in her song ARE ironic. They just aren't ironic in the literary sense. Someone who's afraid to fly because they think they're going to die and then finally getting on a plane only to die is cosmic irony. Someone who's innocent waiting to be pardoned and it does come, just too late to actually save them is cosmic irony. They are ironic, just as the song title states. No, you're wrong. If "Mr. Play It Safe" was instead always telling people how safe airline travel was and then died in a plane crash, that would be cosmic irony. Maybe she meant the "pardon too late" part to be cosmic irony. Considering the rest of the lyrics have nothing to do with irony, cosmic or otherwise, it's safe to say she purposely made the lyrics non-ironic or she has no loving clue what irony is.
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Sep 17, 2011 03:20
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Instead of arguing about irony, I'm going to be angry at the White Strips commercial. A two hour drive is not a road trip. Its a two hour drive.
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Sep 17, 2011 03:32
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Sash! posted:Instead of arguing about irony, I'm going to be angry at the White Strips commercial. A two hour drive is not a road trip. Its a two hour drive. These commercials drive me crazy because of the way the woman always looks at her completely normal white teeth with this horrified expression. If Crest really wanted to impress me, they'd get someone who actually needs their drat teeth whitened first.
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Sep 17, 2011 15:18
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Hate the Direct TV ad with the washed up football player dressed as a fairy flying around telling people to get Direct TV over cable because they supposedly can receive a single game of football. Navi
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Sep 17, 2011 18:54
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku90R0xW520 Whoever put that package back with one cookie left is gettin a paddlin'. Also, I guess the elf is named Ernie. Huh.
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Sep 17, 2011 19:29
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Jonny 290 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku90R0xW520 I've seen that older girl with the curly blonde hair in something else but I can't figure out what.
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Sep 17, 2011 19:44
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That new ebay ad where everybody is making fun of the guy who can't find his pen makes me wish he had a pen and jammed it in their eyeballs.
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Sep 17, 2011 19:54
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Conduit for Sale! posted:I've seen that older girl with the curly blonde hair in something else but I can't figure out what. I'm pretty sure it's the same girl who played Ted's daughter on Better Off Ted.
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Sep 17, 2011 20:09
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Jonny 290 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku90R0xW520 Yes, kids, it's perfectly okay to eat ghost cookies.
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Sep 17, 2011 20:21
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I'm pretty sure it's the same girl who played Ted's daughter on Better Off Ted. Oh yea that's it, thanks.
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Sep 17, 2011 20:22
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Rirse posted:Hate the Direct TV ad with the washed up football player dressed as a fairy flying around telling people to get Direct TV over cable because they supposedly can receive a single game of football. DirecTV completely failed to ride the wave of the Russian guy with the tiny giraffe. Not enough of him and everything since then has sucked.
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Sep 17, 2011 20:37
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ElwoodCuse posted:DirecTV completely failed to ride the wave of the Russian guy with the tiny giraffe. Not enough of him and everything since then has sucked. Especially with the American version of the same guy.
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Sep 17, 2011 20:38
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ElwoodCuse posted:DirecTV completely failed to ride the wave of the Russian guy with the tiny giraffe. Not enough of him and everything since then has sucked. Yeah, I actually liked the ads with him. They never once mention "cable" and it was just in general a funny ad.
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Sep 17, 2011 20:40
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I can't find the commercial on Youtube, but if you have a problem with wifi TVs, try a loving WIFI REFRIGERATOR! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3e5aBh7JUI Here's a video of someone demonstrating it. It's the epitome of "First World Problems." The commercial makes me want to throw a shoe at my television. And if I do that, I'm probably going to replace it with a wifi enabled microwave or something.
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Sep 17, 2011 22:33
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Apparently, then, I'm in the minority here because when I get a television, I get it to play games on or to, y'know, watch some loving television. If I want to do computer poo poo, I've got a computer well and truly separate. I see no reason to combine the two. Goddammit I'm 21 and I'm already going "You loving kids and your newfangled inventions, IN MY DAY Well what if you're me and your desktop is actually plugged right into your tv set? My tv is my monitor. Some days I like to browse the forums and watch a football game or other event and I can't do that without using my laptop. I understand the "jesus who needs that feature?" reaction but the idea that you can't be on the computer and have the tv on at the same time is pretty 
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Sep 18, 2011 00:05
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Stairs posted:I can't find the commercial on Youtube, but if you have a problem with wifi TVs, try a loving WIFI REFRIGERATOR! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3e5aBh7JUI Here's a video of someone demonstrating it. It's the epitome of "First World Problems." The commercial makes me want to throw a shoe at my television. And if I do that, I'm probably going to replace it with a wifi enabled microwave or something. Okay, that's what I call "missing the point" of having an internet refrigerator. There's an IBM ad from the '90s or so that had a repairman showing up at someone's door to fix the refrigerator, but the homeowner didn't call a repairman. The repairman replies the refrigerator did. The refrigerator was able to do it's own maintenance checklist, recognize it had a problem, and called for service (I assume it and the repairman are part of its warranty), before the owner knew there was a problem. Another was maintaining groceries. With RFID tags, the refrigerator would be able to deliver an inventory of items in the fridge and what is nearing or past its expiration date to be thrown out. This. I don't know. It seems superfluous, especially with mobile device and the like. I was reading on the first entry of this type on the market, the LG internet fridge, and the rationale was that it's an appliance that's on 24 hours a day, so it could be possible to do more than just receive e-mail. The problem I see it is that it's probably better to have a central wireless-networked centerpiece and have these apps modular and be slaves to that, going off how smart homes are maintained, instead of having each appliance have its own thing. That said, the fridge is pretty nice, even though that networking features adds a few hundred dollars to it. I like that they've switched to LEDs for interior lighting.
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Sep 18, 2011 00:44
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100 Years in Iraq posted:Well what if you're me and your desktop is actually plugged right into your tv set? My tv is my monitor. Some days I like to browse the forums and watch a football game or other event and I can't do that without using my laptop. If your TV is your computer monitor, then I can accept that. As long as it's not a ridiculously enormous one The only people in my view who absolutely need a 36'' monitor are the people who do big-rear end animation on the scale of Devastator from Transformers: Rise of the Fallen.Or maybe that's just 
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Sep 18, 2011 02:27
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Good god, these Big Bang Theory promos on TBS are so painfully unfunny I can't imagine how monumentally brain dead you'd have to be like that show. Then again, there's like six Tyler Perry shows on that have me scrambling to fast-forward past them when the DVR gets the tail end for Conan or something, so I guess it's in keeping with TBS' usual stuff.
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Sep 18, 2011 02:34
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Young Freud posted:Okay, that's what I call "missing the point" of having an internet refrigerator. There's an IBM ad from the '90s or so that had a repairman showing up at someone's door to fix the refrigerator, but the homeowner didn't call a repairman. The repairman replies the refrigerator did. The refrigerator was able to do it's own maintenance checklist, recognize it had a problem, and called for service (I assume it and the repairman are part of its warranty), before the owner knew there was a problem. I remember that commercial. It was one of those things that was like "This is how close we are to finally having the 1950s HOUSE OF TOMORROW TO-DAY." They also ran a commercial that showed a guy going through a store just shoving stuff in an overcoat like he was stealing and then when he tries to leave, someone stops him, but it was because he forgot his receipt. Everything was tagged and when he went to leave the store, it computed the total bill and presumably deducted it from a chip in one of his cards in his wallet.
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Sep 18, 2011 02:38
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See, if the fridge did ANY of that, it would be worth it. But This POS just accesses recipe sites and reminds you to go get your kids from school. If my fridge told me I was out of mustard and planned a grocery list for me based on my usual purchases I'd mortgage my car to get it. This is just a smart phone that keeps your milk cold. Pointless.
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Sep 18, 2011 04:16
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Every time I hear that loving "I just called to say HELLO" little indie pampaloose knockoff jingle I want to set a baby seal on fire. It's running in at least three different ads and holy poo poo.
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Sep 18, 2011 04:42
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Sep 18, 2011 04:45
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Rirse posted:Hate the Direct TV ad with the washed up football player dressed as a fairy flying around telling people to get Direct TV over cable because they supposedly can receive a single game of football. Deion Sanders isn't washed up, Rirse. Of course, the best commercial is the one where a guy complains about only having one game on cable and Deion promises that he'd have more games on DirecTV. If there's a football game on cable during the regular season, it's either Thursday or Monday, and they are the only ones on at the time.
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Sep 18, 2011 04:55
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Stairs posted:See, if the fridge did ANY of that, it would be worth it. But This POS just accesses recipe sites and reminds you to go get your kids from school. If my fridge told me I was out of mustard and planned a grocery list for me based on my usual purchases I'd mortgage my car to get it. This is just a smart phone that keeps your milk cold. Pointless. What's worse is that it looks like it's a single site, so you don't have much of a choice. What's the point of having an internet connection if you're locked into only two sites  One of the things the LG fridge had was a video camera, for the reason that you could leave video messages to family. That sounds pretty cool, but I'm not sure if it really justified the cost.
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Sep 18, 2011 05:11
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Mister Kingdom posted:That new ebay ad where everybody is making fun of the guy who can't find his pen makes me wish he had a pen and jammed it in their eyeballs. I agree. Apparently now the best way to sell a website is to insult people for not owning an iPad. Thanks eBay! Jerks.
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Sep 18, 2011 05:44
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The Dr. Pepper ads with Pitbull that air constantly during college football have aroused my hatred like no other.
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Sep 18, 2011 06:02
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Toffile posted:If there's a football game on cable during the regular season, it's either Thursday or Monday, and they are the only ones on at the time. Eh, it's pretty clear they're referring to the fact that with cable, you'll only get the (usually) 4 broadcast games for your market on Sunday. If you live in the market for the Patriots or Jets, and they play each other in the early game, that's what you see, not the Saints playing Green Bay if it's on at the same time on the same channel. With DirectTV, you get (almost) all games. I think they're still subject to the NFL's asinine blackout rules.
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Sep 18, 2011 06:26
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I want to murder that fat human being in the gear of war best buy commercial. It'll be "epic" when I string your intestines out as festive holiday decorations. Go back to dave & buster, you fat curly haired piece of poo poo. Also, who is that blonde bitch in the Axe commercials? I know I have have seen her before and it's driving me crazy trying to figure out where.
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Sep 18, 2011 08:26
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DrBouvenstein posted:Eh, it's pretty clear they're referring to the fact that with cable, you'll only get the (usually) 4 broadcast games for your market on Sunday. If you live in the market for the Patriots or Jets, and they play each other in the early game, that's what you see, not the Saints playing Green Bay if it's on at the same time on the same channel. I had it last year and can confirm the blackout rules do apply, which meant, for me anyway, missing 6 or 7 games. This year though I'm going with NFL Gamepass instead, it's cheaper and there are no blackouts.
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Sep 18, 2011 08:55
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Malachite_Dragon posted:If your TV is your computer monitor, then I can accept that. As long as it's not a ridiculously enormous one You don't think that people who use HDTVs as their monitors literally just put their TV where their monitor would normally be, do you?
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Sep 18, 2011 10:01
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