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TVs are so cheap now because of ad subsidies. That 42” panel wouldn’t cost $199 if it weren’t for ads.
by leesalminen 5y ago
TVs are so cheap now because of ad subsidies. That 42” panel wouldn’t cost $199 if it weren’t for ads.
- hobs 5y agoThat'd be a good point if there were companies offering the full price model, but unless you want to buy a commercial panel and do a bunch of hoop jumping yourself, you literally cant buy a TV without adware in it.
- QasimK 5y agoIt would be great if we, the customers, were actually given a genuine, competitive choice. As you say, right now you literally don’t have a genuine choice. There is precedent for this too. Amazon Kindles came (come?) with two options - one with ads and one without. The latter cost something like $20 more. That was good! Having said that, I bought the one without ads and they increasingly, with software updates, devoted greater and greater screen space to the Amazon ebook store. I consider that to be an ad too (and arguably worse because of anti-competitiveness reasons).
- jjulius 5y agoThat's fine, maybe the trade off in increased price is worth it to some people.
- bogwog 5y agoSource? That sounds like bullshit.
- anonymousab 5y agoOr it would be that cheap but ads and spyware just give them more money for free now.
- rodgerd 5y agoNonsense. The same surveillance capitalism runs on a multi-thousand dollar OLED panel.
- google234123 5y agoThen it would cost multi-thousand dollars + extra without the ads in order for the manufactures to maintain their thin margins.