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All of their products appear to be "smart". Why can't they just make a TV that is... a TV?
by junon 5y ago
All of their products appear to be "smart". Why can't they just make a TV that is... a TV?
- Fezzik 5y agoThey may be labeled as smart, but they’re not nerfed at all if you don’t connect to the internet. And there are no notifications or interruptions trying to get you to connect. You can even just hook it up to a set of rabbit ears and set ‘antenna TV’ is your default mode and every time you turn the TV on it’ll go right to over-the-air programs. I’m a big fan, obviously, as I hate smart devices. Edit: grammar.
- colejohnson66 5y agoBecause society wants smart TVs. You and a lot of people here don’t, but collectively, people like the idea of having Netflix/Hulu/etc right on their TVs. The cat’s out of the bag now. If you/me want a dumb TV, don’t look at consumer TVs in BestBuy, but expect to be spending over $1000.
- emptyparadise 5y agoDoes society really want that or does it not realize that it doesn't have to be this way?
- colejohnson66 5y agoThe alternative is a separate box (or something like a Fire Stick). But those became less of a thing once TV manufacturers started implementing them inside the box. And with that, it’s one less thing to buy (which consumers like). If you tell customers that two TVs are identical except one doesn’t need a dongle for Netflix and is cheaper, they’ll choose the smart one.
- prasadjoglekar 5y agoThat may be true, but you only need a ~10% share of the market to want a privacy-first (i.e. dumb) TV, and that'll at least keep the others in line. Sort of like the role Mozilla ought to play in the browser market.
- t0bia_s 5y agoThey do... It is called "monitor".
- junon 5y agoMonitors and TV encode signals much, much differently.