r/mildlyinteresting • u/AuthorGlittering1086 • 1d ago
This tv remote has a button dedicated to football
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u/jenutheangel 1d ago
And what exactly does that button do?
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u/lastskudbook 1d ago
Changes the picture settings to supposedly better for fast action movement.
Spoiler alert: It doesn’t.
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u/arye_ani 1d ago
Football? You mean the real one, the game played with your feet, not the one where you catch and run!
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u/Nonsense_Spreader 1d ago
What do you mean? Isn’t there just one game called football? Do you mean the US version? That’s called Handegg now, to reflect the game more properly.
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u/Prestigious_Beat6310 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is part of why modern TVs are so affordable. I've got a 55 inch 4k smart TV that was under $400, the 'equivalent' 25 years ago was a Sony Trinitron that cost $6,999 and weighed 359 pounds. You had to go buy cocaine and beer to wrangle your friends into helping you install the damn thing.
Anyway, nowadays company's like Netlfix, ESPN, Hulu etc. now pay for 'advertising' in the form of those buttons on the remote. They know consumers will eventually fold and press it to see what it does, or accidentally press it, and that gives them a chance to wrangle in a new subscriber, and this helps to subsidize the price if your new TV.
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u/holyfire001202 1d ago
You mean I can buy a nice, yet cheap TV, and then remove the button entirely to completely negate the built-in advertising?
Fuck yeah.
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u/Burnt0utMi11enia1 1d ago
Relax, peeps. It just toggles a setting for the TV to display sport better (football being especially heinous on older LEDS.
Source: Me. I had a Sony Bravia