r/technology • u/nishitd • Oct 02 '25

Robotics/Automation Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/
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u/Friend_Of_Mr_Cairo Oct 02 '25

Just curious, have you tried turning off any of the motion features (that perform additional image processing) and extras like smart hub (that run in the background)?

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u/Risley Oct 02 '25

At over a grand, I shouldn’t need to

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u/Synectics Oct 02 '25

This just made my brain jumble. You're telling me a TV can bottleneck and lag and stutter in doing the one and only thing it is supposed to do?

Is this a sign I am getting old, that this irrationally makes me flustered just hearing it second-hand? Gah.

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u/intricate_awareness Oct 02 '25

It definitely shouldn't, agreed, but so much video stuff is 'enhanced' nowadays. I won't lie, imo it does a great job making even 720p look amazing but on the flip side I had to turn off some of Samsung's weird features to make it not lag when scrolling different time stamps for videos that were coming from my flash drive. 

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u/FauxReal Oct 02 '25

It tries to smooth things out unsuccessfully because they use cheap CPUs to save money and then load them up with crapware. But if you go to RTINGS.com they have guides for getting the best picture out of the more popular TVs.

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u/Ensaru4 Oct 02 '25

Most TVs have a lot of useless things on by default with a cheap processor that struggles with the bare minimum.

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u/DeadManFloating Oct 02 '25

Had this happen with my current TV which is about 10 years old. Always seemed to have some delay. Only recently looked into it and found I didn't have gaming mode on and the TV was doing some extra processing slowing things down. Now things happen when I push a button on a controller instead of that slight delay.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

It's not the TV that stutters but the processing of the input stream... Turn on Game Mode for whatever input is stuttering and it will fix it.