What is that holographic television device hanging from the ceiling ?

[PlayerOnline]

Are all apartments required to have one ? Is the purpose to show corporate commercials ?

[oldeschool]

what is a TV used for currently?

[Amanoob105]

Near as I could ever tell, yeah it's just non-stop adds.

Maybe people can earn a trickle of eddies letting companies advertise in their own homes?
Maybe part of the agreement to live in a location requires people to have those adds playing 24/7?
Maybe something else entirely?

[wesnef]

Of course, part of the reason it's non-stop ads (aside from the "all ads" channel :D) is because CDPR wasn't about to make whole episodes of TV shows just to put on the TVs around town.

(i.e, suspension of disbelief. TV shows *do* exist - we see ads for Watson ♥♥♥♥♥, for example - but the game itself doesn't have them. Because it's just a game, not a full alternate reality.)

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by wesnef:

Of course, part of the reason it's non-stop ads (aside from the "all ads" channel :D) is because CDPR wasn't about to make whole episodes of TV shows just to put on the TVs around town.

The developer of the game 'Shadows of Doubt' has done this, as I understood it (I bought the game, but haven't played much yet).

[yahboi1988]

Originally posted by wesnef:

Of course, part of the reason it's non-stop ads (aside from the "all ads" channel :D) is because CDPR wasn't about to make whole episodes of TV shows just to put on the TVs around town.

(i.e, suspension of disbelief. TV shows *do* exist - we see ads for Watson ♥♥♥♥♥, for example - but the game itself doesn't have them. Because it's just a game, not a full alternate reality.)

Shush, you're ruining it for the people who keep crying about not having a city with a population of 6 million people who all have full daily scripts and routines. If they can't watch an NPC use the bathroom on schedule then it's a bad game.