Just spent a few days in God’s own country (Yorkshire not the USA) and have been subjected to a JVC TV infected with the monumental piece of horse shit that is Fire TV.
Now I spent many a year in the IT industry before I retired and consider myself pretty savvy when it comes to using tech, but this this has driven me around the twist.
For some unspeakable reason, JVC decided that the best way to control a TV was to force you to use Alexa, a useless bitch that I wouldn’t let anywhere near my abode, but when you’re renting then you take what you’re given.
On the face of it, when presented with a nice shiny new 42″ TV all seems good. Then you try to switch it on. Whether this happens immediately seems hit and miss. When it eventually loads, you get the home screen, which is a default to Amazon streaming. You want TV? Press “Live TV”. Sometimes it works.
You want a program guide. Why would you want that when you can use Alexa? Could it be because Alexa is a thick pig useless piece of crap? Search for a program you want to watch? Defaults to Amazon Prime.
Took a load of stuff with you that you want to watch on a USB stick? Tough shit. It has 2 USB slots but these only work if you format the stick as external storage. So basically it prevents you watching anything other than streaming services. Which basically means you’re forced to watch advertisements because you can’t fast forward through them.
Subtitles seem to switch on and off with a life of their own. Here’s a tip – to switch off subtitles, pause the program, rewind a couple of seconds and press play. Subtitles disappear.
I could go on and on, but the main message is that just when you thought that TV couldn’t get any worse, it just did. The words ‘screen and’ brick’ come to mind. This fucker is giving me a nervous breakdown.
If this is the future of TV then we really are fucked.
Nominated by: Dioclese




