An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Prospective Vizio TV buyers should know there's a good chance the set won't work properly without a Walmart account. In an attempt to better serve advertisers, Walmart, which bought Vizio in December 2024, announced this week that select newly purchased Vizio TVs now require a Walmart account for setup and accessing smart TV features. Since 2024, Vizio TVs have required a Vizio account, which a Vizio OS website says is necessary for accessing "exclusive offers, subscription management, and tailored support." Accounts are also central to Vizio's business, which is largely driven by ads and tracking tied to its OS. A Walmart spokesperson confirmed to Ars Technica that Walmart accounts will be mandatory on "select new Vizio OS TVs" for owners to complete onboarding and to use smart TV features. The representative added: "Customers who already have an existing Vizio account are being given the option to merge their Vizio account with their Walmart account. Customers with an existing Vizio account can opt out by deleting their Vizio account." The representative wouldn't confirm which TV models are affected. Walmart's representative said the Walmart account integration is "designed to respect consumer choice and privacy, with data used in aggregated, permissioned, and compliant ways" but didn't specify how.

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[Deal du jour] Les téléviseurs de LG sont réputés pour leur dalle de qualité, et ce OLED55C5 ne déroge pas à la règle. C'est même l'un des meilleurs modèles du fabricant, et il baisse en ce moment son prix sur Ubaldi.

Alors que les fans du monde entier comptent les jours avant le lancement de la saison 5 de For All Mankind, l'avenir de l'épopée spatiale d'Apple TV vient de prendre un tournant décisif. Entre nouveaux visages au casting et expansion de l'univers, la série phare de Ronald D. Moore s'apprête à vivre ses heures les plus intenses.

America's cable TV industry "is undergoing its most dramatic collapse in history," reports Cord Cutters News, "with operators large and small waving the white flag on traditional TV service and pointing their customers toward streaming platforms instead." Just in 2025 Comcast lost 1.25 million pay-TV subscribers (ending the year with just 11.3 million), while Charter Spectrum also lost hundreds of thousands of customers each quarter. But "for smaller regional operators, who lack the scale and diversified revenue streams of giants like Comcast, those kinds of losses are simply unsurvivable," they write. And "the companies that once delivered hundreds of channels through coaxial cables are now either shutting down entirely or reinventing themselves as internet providers." Pay-TV subscriptions have plummeted from nearly 90% of U.S. households in the mid-2010s to roughly half by the end of 2025, resulting in billions in lost revenue and forcing many smaller operators to conclude that continuing linear TV services is no longer viable... [This year over U.S. 50 cable TV companies — primarily smaller and midsize providers — are "expected to cease operations entirely or shut down their television services," Cord Cutters News reported earlier.] YouTube TV's pricing is so competitive that the platform is projected to have close to 12.6 million subscribers by the end of 2026, positioning it to become the largest paid TV distributor in the United States. Exclusive content deals, such as YouTube TV's acquisition of NFL Sunday Ticket rights, have further eroded the value proposition of traditional cable at every level of the market... As older cable subscribers age out of the market, there is no new generation of customers waiting to replace them... [Cable TV] operators like WOW! are betting that their physical infrastructure — now increasingly upgraded to fiber — is more valuable as an internet delivery system than as a cable TV platform. [WOW! serves customers across Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Alabama — but is "phasing out its proprietary streaming live TV service and directing all customers toward YouTube TV," the article notes.] Industry observers see this as part of a broader trend: operators shedding unprofitable video segments to focus on broadband, where returns and network investments are prioritized. By the end of 2026, non-pay-TV households are expected to surge to 80.7 million, outnumbering traditional pay-TV subscribers at 54.3 million — a milestone that would have seemed unthinkable just a decade ago. For the cable companies still standing, the math is now inescapable: the era of the cable bundle is ending, and the only real question left is how gracefully each operator manages its exit.

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Une vingtaine d’utilisateurs de services d’IPTV illégaux ont été sanctionnés par la justice à Arras. Une opération qui permet à la LFP d’envoyer un avertissement aux internautes, tout en protégeant le lancement de sa propre plateforme, Ligue 1+.

Amazon clôt ce soir ses ventes flash de printemps, lancées le 10 mars. Jusqu’à minuit, des réductions restent disponibles sur des produits variés -- une ultime occasion de profiter de ces offres avant leur disparition.

[Deal du jour] C’est le bon moment de refaire son installation TV avec ce téléviseur LG 55QNED8E en forte promotion. Pour les Ventes Flash de Printemps d'Amazon, il baisse son prix de 45 %.

Longtime Slashdot reader tsuliga writes: Two new episodes of Doctor Who that were previously lost have been found. The original Doctor Who episodes were wiped or deleted by the BBC because they were not aware of the future use of re-runs of these shows. Ninety-five of the 253 episodes from the program's first six years are currently missing. How many more episodes are out there waiting to be rediscovered? "The main broadcasters in the UK in the 1960s, 70s, up to the 80s really, junked quite a lot of content," said Justin Smith, a cinema professor at England's De Montfort University and film archivist. "In some ways finding missing 'Doctor Whos' is the holy grail" of classic TV discoveries, Smith said. The two episodes were "The Nightmare Begins" and "Devil's Planet," both of which aired during the show's third series in 1965. It features William Hartnell as the Doctor in a story involving archvillains the Daleks -- pepperpot-shaped metal aggressors whose favorite word is "Exterminate!" Smith said that for fans of the show, "it's got it all, it really has. It is intergalactic, it's got some great performances. It stands up really, really well."

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Il n’y a pas que le Prime Day dans l’agenda d’Amazon. En effet, du 10 mars jusqu'au 16 mars, la marketplace relance ses fameuses ventes flash de printemps -- de quoi profiter de nombreux produits à prix réduit.

Il n’y a pas que le Prime Day dans l’agenda d’Amazon. En effet, du 10 mars jusqu'au 16 mars, la marketplace relance ses fameuses ventes flash de printemps -- de quoi profiter de nombreux produits à prix réduit.

Les chaînes FAST Bouygues Telecom sont désormais accessibles à l’ensemble des abonnés TV de l’opérateur. Depuis le 11 mars 2026, Bouygues Telecom et Netgem annoncent en effet le renforcement de leur collaboration, avec le déploiement de l’application Netgem Pleio TV sur tout le parc TV. Ainsi, ce sont 20 nouvelles chaînes gratuites financées par la […]

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Il n’y a pas que le Prime Day dans l’agenda d’Amazon. En effet, du 10 mars jusqu'au 16 mars, la marketplace relance ses fameuses ventes flash de printemps -- de quoi profiter de nombreux produits à prix réduit.

Il n’y a pas que le Prime Day dans l’agenda d’Amazon. En effet, ce 10 mars, la marketplace relance ses fameuses ventes flash de printemps -- de quoi profiter de nombreux produits à prix réduit.

Bouygues Telecom et Disney+ s’associent pour proposer des offres de streaming particulièrement attractives en ce mois de mars 2026. Ainsi, que vous soyez client Bbox, détenteur d’un forfait mobile ou client BiG (box + mobile), Disney+ Bouygues Telecom offre une formule adaptée à chaque profil. Et pour couronner le tout, un jeu concours exceptionnel est […]

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Il n’y a pas que le Prime Day dans l’agenda d’Amazon. En effet, ce 10 mars, la marketplace relance ses fameuses ventes flash de printemps -- de quoi profiter de nombreux produits à prix réduit.

[Deal du jour] La gamme de téléviseurs The One de Philips avec Ambilight offre des modèles polyvalents de qualité, idéaux pour le cinéma et les jeux vidéo. En promotion, ce modèle de 55 pouces vaut vraiment le coup.

Steven Spielberg directed his last Jurassic Park movie nearly 30 years ago, notes ScreenRant. But the 79-year-old filmmaker now brings us The Dinosaurs, a four-part documentary on Netflix where he's executive producer: The first few reviews are in, and the results lead to a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. It's worth noting that the rating will likely fluctuate since there are only six reviews. So far, critics all agree that the new Netflix docuseries is a breathtaking visual of history's most majestic creatures, and Morgan Freeman's soothing narration elevates the experience. Most importantly, the reviews note that the story is intimate, making the dinosaurs feel real with their personalities. "Audience" reviewers gave it a lower score of 67%. "There is a sense of drama and emotional weight which permeates through the entire series as it tells the story of the dinosaurs from start to the present day. The ending brought tears to my eyes..." "Wow, what a sleeper! Flat graphics, looks like video game animations. Unrelatable story lines. Don't waste your time. Honestly would you even look twice if Spielberg's name wasn't on it?" "This show was honestly incredible... It was a 10/10 series that I absolutely adored highly recommended to anyone who loves and has an interest of the ancient world." "I'm sorry, but the dinos of Prehistoric Planet are far superior, and were achieved on a much smaller budget. Their dinos look absolutely real, and you are convinced you're watching a documentary with real animals" ScreenRant notes Netflix's debut of The Dinosaurs' "aligns perfectly" with the arrival of all four Jurassic World movies on Netflix, where they're already dominating Netflix's "Top 10" charts for the U.S. "Witness the rise and the fall of nature's greatest empire," narrator Morgan Freeman says in the trailer...

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Vous cherchez des films culte en VOD à regarder ce soir ? Bonne nouvelle : Bouygues Telecom fête ses 30 ans et, pour l’occasion, offre chaque jour un film à ses clients Bbox. Du 4 mars au 2 avril 2026, une sélection de 30 longs-métrages incontournables est disponible gratuitement en VOD. Comédies, drames, thrillers, films […]

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Bright Data, a company that operates one of the world's largest residential proxy networks, has been running an SDK inside smart TV apps that turns those devices into nodes for web crawling -- collecting data used by AI companies, among other clients -- and most consumers have had no idea it was happening. The company has published more than 200 first-party apps to LG's app store alone and still lists Samsung's Tizen OS and LG's webOS as supported platforms, though LG says the SDK is "not officially supported" and its operation on webOS "is not guaranteed." Google, Amazon, and Roku have all since adopted policies restricting or banning background proxy SDKs, and Bright Data no longer supports those platforms. Several Roku apps still running the SDK disappeared from the store after a journalist with The Verge behind this reporting contacted the company.

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[Deal du jour] Pourquoi ne pas investir dans un très grand écran pour profiter de vos films et séries presque comme au cinéma ? Quand le prix d'un grand modèle de Samsung baisse de plus de 50 €, la question est légitime.