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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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 opinion supported by all of the data that I’m aware of.
