Telly is a free TV with built-in ads.
“When I co-founded Pluto TV, we created an entirely new model that offered amazing TV content to viewers for free,” Pozin says in a statement. “Now, with Telly, we are providing the actual television for free as well.”
While ads shouldn’t interrupt whatever you’re watching on the main display, Telly’s chief strategy officer, Dallas Lawrence, tellsthat ads might utilize both displays when you’re not using the TV. “When the Theatre display is not in use, the ad unit could come to life in a fun way connecting both,” Lawrence says. “There are literally hundreds of things we are thinking about to create the most engaging ad experience ever.
As for the main display, it’s a 55-inch 4K HDR panel linked to the secondary display through the company’s operating system: TellyOS. Unlike most mainline smart TV operating systems, TellyOS currently doesn’t support third-party streaming apps like Netflix. That’s why Telly comes bundled with a free 4K Android TV dongle that you can use to watch whatever streaming service you want.
This all points to Pozin’s massive goals for Telly, though. Pozin has made a bet on free TV in the past with the launch of Pluto TV, one of the. He’ll likely apply this knowledge to free hardware. “Don’t be fooled by the free price,” Pozin says in a statement. “This is by far the most advanced television ever developed.” Would I take a free, ad-supported TV over the LG I have now? Absolutely not, but I’m genuinely intrigued with how this setup works. You can
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