The figure appears to come from a quarterly investor update, but Telly didn't provide any comment on the report.
  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    I imagine one could replace the hardware with something else to drive the display portion. It’d take knowledge and a soldering iron, but I’m sure it’s doable.

    Probably they have some sort of sensor behind the lower screen that can tell if it’s covered. I wonder how sophisticated that is. Perhaps, rather than covering it completely, it could be obscured behind a crystal pattern plastic sheet, like is used for privacy. It would still let the light through, but it would just be an incoherent light pattern. Build a box to enclose the bottom half, and hold the sheet out a few inches in front of the panel.

    EDIT: The correct way to deal with it is to disable the backlight on the bottom display. Found a reddit post about it. It’s cheap and easy enough to do if you have a soldering iron.

    EDIT 2: Apparently it does not have a way to detect if the bottom screen is blocked. Fools. Just build a box around the bottom part, and you’re done. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qD-jaukv85U

    • Jay@lemmy.caEnglish
      20·
      2 months ago

      I would have no objections to literally spray painting that lower screen Tremclad Black. Is that all the tv can do though? I would imagine it’s also stealing as much data of yours as it can and possibly even listening in. Also what if there’s ad sound…?

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      The thing is, screens are cheap and there’s no real reason to replace unless you’re chasing top of the line which this isn’t.

      Save ~$100 now to always have an ad playing isn’t a great deal

    • fullsquare@awful.systemsEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      if there was a way of faking presence of lower display, then you have free tv and extra screen

      this is some idiocracy level shit tho

  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.comEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    Because it’s a stupid idea that no one asked for.

    TVs have gotten really cheap, but even if you can’t afford those they are easy to find at thrift shops or even people giving them away if you have a little bit of patience. Suffice it to say, this has a very narrow target audience.

    These are basically e-waste.

    • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      So ready for them to become e-waste.

      Can you imagine the possibilities on re-purposing these if they get cheap enough to experiment with after the company goes bankrupt.

      • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        there’s likely very little experimentation needed… ripping the panel out and attaching an HDMI controller from aliexpress to it would likely be extremely straight forward

        apple is one of the most proprietary companies in existence and you can do this easily with ipad screens and generic controllers… the same goes for most panels: there’s really not that much difference in the actual “expensive” part, and afaik very little you can do to protect it from this kind of thing