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In an unexpected change, Google TV seems to now be blocking the ability to take a screenshot locally on the...

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Yet again a company decides that it's better for us to not have what they sold us. I wonder what the replacement product will cost it which agency is paying them to stop us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The author of the article has no theory why they might have done this. I'll suggest that maybe screenshots are used as a way to document obnoxious advertising, and Google would like to make that as difficult as possible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Obviously people were taking screenshots of films and then stitching them together to make gifs for entire 2 hour films, so this is all about stopping piracy! /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Funny I usually just take a picture of the with contrast bumped and black levels lowered.

Personally I would very much like an easy way to screenshot the TV and send it to my phone