This free TV comes with two screens

There’s a new kind of TV coming out for Samsung, LG and Vizio, and it’s totally free — if you don’t count the cost of your attention. Tele, a company created by Pluto TV co-founder Ilya Pozin, offers a TV that makes up for its non-existent price tag by constantly showing ads in a second, smaller display.

The company calls this thin strip of screen a “smart display,” which is separated from the main TV by a soundbar. In addition to showing advertisements, it is also capable of displaying a variety of widgets, including sports scores, news tickers, weather, and stock prices. As shown in the images embedded in this article, ads can appear on the right side of a smart display, but can also appear as a sponsored news feed on the left side of the screen. Janko Roetgers The rumor mill first tipped about the device earlier this month.

“When I co-founded Pluto TV, we created an entirely new model that offered viewers amazing TV content for free,” Pozin said in a statement. “Now, with Tele, we are also providing real television for free.”

While ads shouldn’t interrupt what you’re watching on the main display, Dallas Lawrence, the telly’s chief strategy officer, explains. ledge Ads can use both displays when you are not using the TV. “When the theater display (the top screen) is not in use, the ad unit can come to life by juxtaposing the two in a fun way,” says Lawrence. “There are literally hundreds of things we’re thinking of to create the most engaging ad experience ever.” Lawrence also says that Telly is also working on “Tele Rewards,” which would reward users with gift cards for services like Netflix or Starbucks for participating in things like on-screen polls.

As for the main display, it is a 55-inch 4K HDR panel that is connected to a secondary display via the company’s operating system: TellyOS. Unlike most mainline smart TV operating systems, TeleOS currently does not support third-party streaming apps such as Netflix. That’s why the telly comes with a free 4K Android TV dongle that you can use to watch whatever streaming service you want. It’s also compatible with other streaming devices, including Roku, Amazon Fire Stick, and Apple TV, and has three HDMI inputs, 2 USB inputs, and a tuner that you can use to watch over-the-air broadcasts.

However, there is much more to a TV than just two displays. If you look closely, you can see a camera mounted smack-dab in the middle of the soundbar. This enables the “free advanced motion-tracking fitness program” that comes with the TV, along with Zoom integration, which also marks the launch of the tele. Lawrence explains ledge That TV comes with a privacy shutter (and with it the TV closes), so you can open and close it as you please.

But that’s still not the end of the Telly’s integration — it’s also shipping with 40 different games and the ability to play music from “popular music services.” It even has an “AI-powered voice assistant” that answers “Hey Telly”. If this all sounds a bit vague, that’s because it is. The company hasn’t yet revealed the music services it’s partnering with and hasn’t expanded on the games or commands the device will feature.

However, all of this points to Posin’s grander goals for the tele. Pozin has bet on free TV with the launch of Pluto TV, one of the most successful free ad-supported streaming TV services (FAST) in the past. He will likely apply this knowledge to free hardware.

“Don’t be fooled by the free price,” Pozin said in a statement. “It is the most advanced television ever developed.” Can I get a free, ad-supported TV over the LG I have now? Not exactly, but I’m really curious as to how this setup works. you can go to freetelly.com The website is up to reserve one of the 500,000 free devices that Tele says will start shipping “this summer.”