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Interesting read. I wonder if we're going to get to a point where dumb TVs' prices > Smart TVs'
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Good point... Would 'heavily subsidized by' work as well?
Subsidized implies that the revenue from advertising defers the cost to the end user. This isn't generally true for TVs. With TVs, the sticker price pays for the hardware. The ads pay for the extra house the manufacturer's CEO feels he's entitled to have.
Your data is subsidizing the low hardware costs.
If you want a dumb TV, get a 50" or even 55" 1080p TV and save yourself hundreds of dollars that you can spend on literally anything else that'll make your "TV" (but who are we kidding: netflix and youtube) watching more enjoyable. But a popcorn maker and 10lbs of popcorn. Get a reasonable sound bar. Get many nights of take-out for in-home movie dates with your SO. Hundreds of dollars go a long way.
I don't have a TV, only a few monitors (it's very liberating, actually). So instead I'll talk about my microwave. Yes, unironically! :D It has two dials. OMG how do I survive with only two dials? How do I program it? Well, the answer is, unsurprisingly, that I don't program it. Instead I crank it to watever wattage I need (usually the top one), and the time I think it'll take until the food I becomes hot. Aaaand that…
Recommending a 4k TV at 50" is really weird. You can't tell the difference between 4k and 1080 at that size until you get closer than 7 feet, and if you're the kind of person who lives in a place with enough room for a couch and a TV, you're not putting only 6 feet between them. Either it's a small room and your couch is up against one wall and the TV up against the other, or you have a large room, and the couch is s…
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You have an actual variable power microwave? Not a duty cycle power control??
Now I am curious of how most microwaves are modulating power.
Bang&Olufsen do all the above, at an unreasonable price[2]
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You have an actual variable power microwave? Not a duty cycle power control??
Perhaps I was imprecise. It has a stepped dial, with pre-set wattages. Caveat for not being an electrician. ^^
I don't have a TV, only a few monitors (it's very liberating, actually). So instead I'll talk about my microwave. Yes, unironically! :D It has two dials. OMG how do I survive with only two dials? How do I program it? Well, the answer is, unsurprisingly, that I don't program it. Instead I crank it to watever wattage I need (usually the top one), and the time I think it'll take until the food I becomes hot. Aaaand that…
> wattage (energy output) Nope, power output.
My advice is to stop seeing a “smart tv” as a feature and see it as an expensive piece of equipment subsidised by extra advertising revenue. Don’t get upset about this, just understand it for what it is. Now, what can you do about it? Easy, don’t connect it to the internet. They will tell you that it needs updates but come on, what is a security vulnerability going to to to something that’s only output is a screen an…
no no no. this is bad advice. 1) "Some Samsung TVs already try and connect to open WiFi networks if you don't connect them yourself." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24629155 2) there is ethernet over hdmi - I would image this is another source of inadvertent connection. 3) samsung tvs require an ethernet cable to "update firmware" so HDMI works. 4) ACR - which will look at ALL the inputs. and wait for the next…
I despise Samsung and their junk.