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The shitty thing about all this is that the products would be cheaper and more reliable if they didn’t have these features.
Largely, yeah. Though i'm not sure about big screen TVs. Supposedly they're sold at a loss and make up for it in ad sales, but not sure if they sell below cost to manufacture or just for less upfront profit (likely the latter)
They could give away the tvs if the damn things are running ads and make the money back in a month.
Which is why I haven't bought a new TV in about five years. I just buy old used TVs that have absolutely no new features on them and do not connect to anything.
Yep. My "TV" upstairs is just a giant LED computer monitor with two HDMI inputs and my "TV" downstairs is a projector -- both connected to old laptops.
I've read digital signage is the way to go for bigger screens, though I haven't looked into any recently.