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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The price of the TV is subsidized by the ads, promoted apps, and usage tracking. But usually poor hardware to keep the cost even lower. That’s why the models with Fire TV OS and similar ones are usually the cheapest.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't buy it. Before "smart" TVs, you could get TVs just as cheap.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TVs have improved in quality since smart TVs we’re introduced. However, it’s kind of like everything else. They have stopped producing the old dumb stuff.

It’s another reason why I advocate that we should compensated anytime our personal information is used or harvested.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Quality? Built in apps when a roku is 30 bucks? Is that whats so expensive?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I couldn't get a TV anywhere near the size of the roku for the same price. 350 bucks for something 3x as large as a 400 dollar boob tube in 2002. Also it still has no ads.