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Does anyone know how much would be the BOM for a dumb TV with a good 4K OLED panel? I'm starting to think that if creating a crowdsale of a dumb tv panel might

Does anyone know how much would be the BOM for a dumb TV with a good 4K OLED panel? I'm starting to think that if creating a crowdsale of a dumb tv panel might be a profitable project.

blamazon 5y ago
Methinks it might be cheapest to have an open source main board to replace the internals of a platform-subsidized 4k model rather than build from scratch.
- rglullis 5y ago
  For the DIY crowd, maybe. But there are so many SBCs and set-top boxes out there, my idea would be to have a panel with a very basic firmware and a slot where you could Bring-Your-Own-Kodi-and-tvheadend.
javajosh 5y ago
I suspect it's for the simple reason that anyone capable of doing this will choose to never connect a smart TV to the internet, and setup an external source. You'd have to do this with a dumb TV too, it's just fewer steps.
- blamazon 5y ago
  This assumes that those TVs aren’t connecting to a random open network around it. Or even some kind of Xfinity public network type integration.
pabs3 5y ago
The "TV" part is always going to involve software; decoding DVB and sending pixels to the panel. Some years ago there was a paper about transmitting malicious TV signals and getting code exploitation on TVs. Probably even a dumb monitor involves software, for example for the menus with support for languages or the microcontroller responding to the DDC/CI protocol over VGA/DVI/HDMI.
wincy 5y ago
I wonder if someone like Jeff Bezos gets custom made 4K OLED panels made for his mansions and yachts to ensure nobody is spying on him. I’d bet you have to hire all sorts of weird security managers and stuff as a billionaire that a layperson wouldn’t expect, right? Maybe Warren Buffet avoids this because everything in his house is from 1973? One disgruntled plumber or maid and suddenly you’ve got Bezos dropping a deuce complete with toilet view all over the internet.

Does anyone know how much would be the BOM for a dumb TV with a good 4K OLED panel? I'm starting to think that if creating a crowdsale of a dumb tv panel might be a profitable project.

blamazon 5y ago

Methinks it might be cheapest to have an open source main board to replace the internals of a platform-subsidized 4k model rather than build from scratch.

rglullis 5y ago
For the DIY crowd, maybe. But there are so many SBCs and set-top boxes out there, my idea would be to have a panel with a very basic firmware and a slot where you could Bring-Your-Own-Kodi-and-tvheadend.

javajosh 5y ago

I suspect it's for the simple reason that anyone capable of doing this will choose to never connect a smart TV to the internet, and setup an external source. You'd have to do this with a dumb TV too, it's just fewer steps.

blamazon 5y ago
This assumes that those TVs aren’t connecting to a random open network around it. Or even some kind of Xfinity public network type integration.

pabs3 5y ago

The "TV" part is always going to involve software; decoding DVB and sending pixels to the panel. Some years ago there was a paper about transmitting malicious TV signals and getting code exploitation on TVs. Probably even a dumb monitor involves software, for example for the menus with support for languages or the microcontroller responding to the DDC/CI protocol over VGA/DVI/HDMI.

wincy 5y ago

I wonder if someone like Jeff Bezos gets custom made 4K OLED panels made for his mansions and yachts to ensure nobody is spying on him. I’d bet you have to hire all sorts of weird security managers and stuff as a billionaire that a layperson wouldn’t expect, right? Maybe Warren Buffet avoids this because everything in his house is from 1973? One disgruntled plumber or maid and suddenly you’ve got Bezos dropping a deuce complete with toilet view all over the internet.