If you’re Samsung and you want to wring additional cash out of your television business, what do you do? Add annoying advertisements to TVs that people already have in their homes, apparently. The Wall Street Journal reports that Samsung is readying the European expansion of an initiative it started in the United States last June: adding interactive advertisements to the menu bars of its high-end smart TVs. The impact isn’t going to be limited just to customers buying new Samsung televisions, either, as the company reportedly plans to use software updates to retroactively bring the ads to older models that people already have in their homes.
I’ve been considering buying a new TV, but I read stuff like this, and it turns me off. Not to mention the fact that buying a TV these days is more complicated than buying a computer…
Source: Samsung is adding new obtrusive ads to your old smart TV | The Verge