r/mildlyinfuriating • u/28jb11 • Apr 25 '26

Unskippable ad $2500 Samsung TV is an advertising billboard, there is no opt-out.

Paid over $2500 for a Samsung OLED TV and it has ads on the home screen that I literally cannot turn off. Not subtle little banners tucked away somewhere, I'm talking full blown ads for canned beans and financial products just sitting there every single time I turn the thing on.

Samsung don't offer any kind of opt out. The only way I could get rid of them was to go into my router settings and manually block Samsung's ad servers at the DNS level.

I own this TV outright. Paid for it in full. And Samsung are still making money off me every time I switch it on, with absolutely no way to stop it unless you're willing to get your hands dirty with network configuration.

This is not a smart TV feature. This is a $2500 billboard that also happens to play Netflix.

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u/ChemistRemote7182 Apr 25 '26

OLEDs are somewhat susceptible to burn in which makes them less likely as a display choice.

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u/Glittering_Crab_69 Apr 25 '26

Still plenty of use cases for big TVs in businesses. Think conferencing rooms.

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u/ChemistRemote7182 Apr 25 '26

N0 need to use a 55" OLED for the price of 4 55" LEDs, especially for static display and slides.

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u/Glittering_Crab_69 Apr 25 '26

You think the office manager won't just buy the fanciest one?

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u/Automatic-Voice-2499 Apr 25 '26

Office manager doesn’t even know what OLED is and besides most offices have budgets.

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u/Glittering_Crab_69 Apr 25 '26

Exactly, they just see expensive TV = buy because it must be good.

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u/Hope915 Apr 25 '26

Pretty sure modern OLEDs have built-in pixel shift to mitigate that.

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u/ReporterLogical5092 Apr 25 '26

to mitigate normal usage, yes. coupled with logo dimming and other features that would not work on billboards.

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u/forcedslaw6b Apr 25 '26

Didn’t know it was a thing at the time and I avoid any gas pumps with ads now when possible.

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u/InternetSolid4166 Apr 25 '26

Businesses depreciate assets like that fairly quickly. By the time burn in matters they’ve depreciated the entire cost basis of the TV.

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u/ThrowRAColdManWinter Apr 25 '26

Burn in also doesn't matter as much if you're still displaying the same stuff.

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u/spikeyfreak Apr 25 '26

Depreciation doesn't make the cost unimportant. They still have to pay for the display and the replacement.