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Great, more vendor specific keys that absolutely nobody needs.
I ended up un mapping my Netflix button on my shield TV remote because it was super annoying for accidental presses.
Do the manufacturers even get a cut for promoting these services, or is this just what people want?
How did you do that please?
And heh, no cut, dummy. They get extorted. Netflix wouldn't agree to allow the hi-res streaming to their devices otherwise.
Didn't think about that, that makes so much sense.
I use Buttons Remapper and set the Netflix button to do nothing and override system. You don't need to pay for this but there is other stuff locked behind a pay wall.
Thanks! Will definitely help.
As much as I don't like these buttons, working in tech support, I can tell you far too many people can't figure out anything more complex than "push the giant button that says the thing you want on it", and that is even difficult to get some people to understand.
I kinda see your point, but a huge number of people have a subscription to at least one streaming service, so those buttons are a useful feature for a lot of people.
Unlikely all 4 though. Give people 1-2 they can map services two, instead of multiple wasted (branded) buttons.
Most consumers want their device to work right out of the box, mapping buttons isn't something most of the population wants to deal with.
Don't give them excuses, mate.
Map them during initial setup.
But then you have to remember which one is which. The ones in your example are already labelled.
You work in their marketing department, don't you?
The scenario I mentioned would have the buttons simply labeled with a number/letter. 95% of the time I don't even look on the remote to use a button. Also, if you hit the wrong button, no big deal, you just the other/s.
Like I mentioned, stop giving them excuses.
Nobody will remember that. Too complicated for Grandma.
You do realize that we already know the only reason you have them on your remotes is to charge the streaming services a licensing fee for the advertisement. You couldn't care less about grandma.
Can we stop with accusing people with working for corporations and treating them as representative of that corporation just for the purpose of appealing to emotion and making the other person sound worse? It doesn't even make much sense. Lemmy is too small for corporations to spend money to astroturf.
The only thing you manage to do is make Lemmy more toxic and unappealing to spend time on.
We also have a problem with people massively overestimating the amount of hassle "normal" people are willing to go through to use technology.
The tinfoil hat is cutting off the blood flow to your brain.
Whatever you say.
I mean I do need to keep my antennae from buzzing all the time. But, whatever you say.
Label the remappable button STREAMING SERVICE or something, I don't know.
This is literally what certain manufacturers do. Here's a side by side of the receiver remote for my setup and the one for the TV (which has never even been connected to the internet). One has these dedicated buttons. The other just has ones labeled for streaming or similar.>!
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I'll add that the location of the buttons makes a significant difference. If they're easy to hit by accident you're more likely to have grandma launch a service she didn't mean to and not know how to back out of it. This causes more problems than it solves.
There's a lot of people in this thread who've never had to be tech support for elderly relatives.
Grandma doesn't know what a streaming is.
A huge number of people like pussy too, but that doesn't mean I want a button for it
(I'm gay af)
So buy another TV.
Do you guys have remote with dedicated key for specific channel? Awful!
Yeah some TV's these days come with streaming built in and have this kind of remote. Plus if you buy a set top streaming box like a Roku, they come with this kind of remote also. It's stupid, but a real world thing.
Oh god. Thanks I am not there
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