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"Transfer more value! Transfer more value! Transfer more value!", the shareholders chanted, as the virgin shrieked on her descent into the throat of an active volcano. "It is done!", responded the CEO, eyes hidden behind the ceremonial quarterly meeting headdress, shielding them from the immense heat of the lava.
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The amount of money that Roku is making, as well as their market cap, are utterly irrelevant, and the only reason you're bringing them up is a manipulative tactic to divert attention from the fact that the vast majority of Roku's revenue comes from ads and streaming.
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> Perhaps you need to calm down and realize you're the one who mentioned finances.
This is utterly nonsensical. "There's no viable revenue source for content creators if you neither pay them directly nor run ads" is a true statement of fact that's relevant to the discussion. A sarcastic, pleading, emotionally manipulative comment such as
> Ah yes. Roku, the company with an $8.65B market cap and constant year-on-year revenue growth of at least 11%, is going to go bankrupt unless they show you ads when you pause the screen.
...is neither logical, nor relevant, nor is related in any way whatsoever to my response.
Can anyone explain why there doesn’t seem to be a market for high-end dumb TVs? I want speakers, tuner, multiple inputs, HDR, 4K. That’s it. I would absolutely pay a premium price for such a dumb TV. I know others in the same position. Am I just in an echo chamber? Or is there something more going on?
Reason #27,621,938 to stop watching TV. The media creators hate you, the device manufacturers hate you, the streaming companies hate you. It’s amazing what hoops people are willing to jump through in order to poison their own minds.
Yeah, all that mind poison from nature and science education, documentaries, great films and TV shows that entertain and help us experience the human condition through great visual art and storytelling. Are you from 1950?
First tv ad in 1941, first radio ad in 1922, first newspaper ad in 1704, first known written ad in 3000 bc.
> When the media device pauses the media content, the display device can determine that a pause event has occurred and insert an ad shown on the display device. Hilarious. I love how all the streaming companies are hijacking the pause control now. Why do you think I hit pause? Pick one or more of the following: 1. I need to go to the bathroom. 2. I want to inspect the current frame more carefully. 3. I want to see an…
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Can anyone explain why there doesn’t seem to be a market for high-end dumb TVs? I want speakers, tuner, multiple inputs, HDR, 4K. That’s it. I would absolutely pay a premium price for such a dumb TV. I know others in the same position. Am I just in an echo chamber? Or is there something more going on?
We are in a infinite growth economy. Numbers must go up 20% year over year otherwise your business is failed and you should just file for bankruptcy. Gotta squeeze as much wealth out of the market regardless of everything else. Short term gains over decent nice to use product.
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How many 65" Displays with Display Port are there? Also, don't nVidia GPUs only support the nearly 10 year old Display Port 1.4, which doesn't support variable refresh rates for high resolution/high framerate displays? Sure, buying an AMD GPU is a solution, if you don't mind worse drivers and higher power usage for less performance. (To be clear: I want HDMI to die, DisplayPort to win, and AMD to get their crap toget…
Maybe you loaded the comments in the window of time where I had not yet added some additional details. I am specifically advocating for using monitors that connect using USB-C connectors and the DisplayPort protocol. I am not a big fan of the DP connector itself. I have a monitor that supports it, and I’ve used it with that one and others in the past. But USB-C connector (like one of my other monitors has) and Displa…
The regular DP connector is fine because at least it locks in (sometimes too well), and MiniDP has been pretty great (especially when chaining multiple monitors on systems that support multi-stream, so anything except Apple).
I do have a love/hate relationship with USB-C, mainly because you need to double, triple, and quadruple check that the cable actually has all the wires in it for DP and not just USB 3 or even worse, USB 2.
In a perfect world, HDMI would be a historical artifact. In the current world, it's sadly a necessity for big TVs or many gaming setups :(
Can anyone explain why there doesn’t seem to be a market for high-end dumb TVs? I want speakers, tuner, multiple inputs, HDR, 4K. That’s it. I would absolutely pay a premium price for such a dumb TV. I know others in the same position. Am I just in an echo chamber? Or is there something more going on?