While there’s no release date yet for the service, Jackbox Games is hoping to bring a beta version to “one or two smart TV platforms” in spring this year. More platforms and features will then follow.
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Still not enough a reason to connect my TV to the internet.
My LG OLED autoupdated through the internet last year and now VRR is broken (flickers no matter what or how stable the FPS is), only way to „fix“ it is to set the refresh rate to whatever my FPS is gonna be (most of the time) and then lock my FPS to that and hope it doesn’t dip below that too much (or it‘ll flicker). Support is as helpful as you might imagine.
So yeah, don‘t connect your TV to the internet or you‘re at the mercy of the manufacturer. Lesson learned.
I setup rules on my router to block outgoing traffic from my LG OLED but I still have it on the network so I can use wake-on-LAN.
care to share those rules?
This would vary based on what router you use, but this is the way I handled it on my Ubiquity EdgeRouter.
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I added a DHCP reservation for my TV so it’s IP address on my local network doesn’t change.
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I added a new firewall policy (with the highest priority) that accepts all traffic by default between my internal LAN network and the WAN interface of my router.
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Then I added a rule to that policy to drop traffic from the IP address I assigned to my TV.
Now the TV can no longer phone home to send obnoxious notifications or issue surprise firmware updates but I can still turn on the TV and adjust the volume over the local network. I use Home Assistant for this, but I think the LG remote android app would still work as well.
thank you so much! pumped to get rid of those pesky notifications but the home assistant Notifications are awesome
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Are people buying smart TVs because there is something to like about them or is that the only kind of TV available in some parts of the world?
Some parts of the world? Are you saying there are still parts of the world in 2025 where you can buy modern dumb-tvs?
Where can you still buy dumb TVs?
The landfill.
Despite privacy and bloat concerns from some people online, I don’t think a single person I know would buy a TV if it couldn’t run streaming apps on it.
@simple @JimVanDeventer with all the piracy risk, I would NEVER connect my TV to internet. All IOT poses a serious threat of both piracy and privacy.
It sounds from the way you phrased this like you feel that every IOT device is just a ticking time bomb waiting to become a malware and privacy nightmare.
If so, as someone with some Cybersecurity expertise, I just want to say that is a reasonable conclusion supported by all of the data that I’m aware of.
I can’t imagine it will be free and actually useable in any form.
Free*
*except you can only play one game in 24 hrs. *you can only play with four people *there is only a small set of prompts available
Actually, that part I’m not worried about. Jackbox is one of my friends go-to end of party games. It’s all through your phone and accommodates a good amount of people, slightly game dependent.
Yeah, but thats for money.
Right, but your friend purchased each game pack.
It would be great if this app was just the game host, where you could link an account that has purchased the games and run them on the TV rather than hooking up a PC.
It’s also entirely possible that you can’t host any of the games. If the host owns the game, anyone else can play for free through a browser. It could just be access to the jackbox.tv website from the TV itself.
It also released a Naughty Pack of more mature games though considering most players like to make the basic games rude, it’s unclear how popular these have been.
The Naughty pack was disappointing. 3 okay games for $20. 2 of them were games we’ve seen before. For $30 you could grab Party Pack 7 which is infinitely better.
They also released The Jackbox Survey Scramble last year which was surprisingly fun.
This one I played. It’s a cool idea but many of the survey answers are just really stupid. I swear sometimes they just asked 14 y/o shitposters online instead of real people.
Yeah. I know what you mean. We still have fun playing it and just take it as it is.
Anyone can answer the questions at the main menu so maybe it’ll get better over time.
I never pay full price for any of the games, they always have a few discounted and rotate through their full catalog eventually.
Buy from yurop. Second hand shops in every major city, can’t miss them. They stink of old.
