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Yes, it's called a monitor. There are plenty of monitors that have hdmi inputs and a standard audio jack output for connecting to a set of speakers.
Like how you think. I'm not sure what the biggest monitor you can get is, though.
Personally a dumb tv/roku/media server has been my go to choice. This whole smartTV hype is still beyond me. Could someone please touch on the advantages of a smart TV offerings over my setup?
Some people like the concept of having fewer boxes to plug in. That means fewer cords, fewer remotes, etc. Personally I would love to have a TV running a decent OS (as long as it still boots instantly). Unfortunately TV manufactures do such a shitty job with the software. Both in terms of quality/performance/usability, and now with privacy issues and injected ads.
Then I got a Chrome cast. Plug and go, no remotes (you use your phone or tablet) the ugly wires are hidden behind the tv.
They're not unwanted ads until you tell Samsung and Yahoo they're unwanted. And that convenient opt out is only 5,000 clicks through a maze of twisty passages away. I'd bet the pop-up confirmation box on the opt-out has a Pepsi ad on it.
Is there such a things as a wanted ad?
I have disabled adblocker on facebook so that I can laugh at their stupid ads for bad products but the day a really good offer turns up I will totally be willing to click it. The reasons ads have gotten such a bad reputation is that most marketing agencies are more interested in having sex and playing golf than making better ads (told to me by actual marketing people) I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook would make at least twice their current revenue if they tried to optimize how companies targeted ads rather than chasing 0.1% conversion optimizing.
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They will never be awesome. It is like having built in navigation in your car vs an iPhone. Built in is proprietary bs that will always be out of date, and hardware refreshes will take like 5+ years because how often do you get a new tv. Right now my roku runs about 1000x faster than my smart tv and is really just superior in every way. Stand alone boxes will always be better because the software will be better and h…
I agree with your general point, but my Sony TV automatically downloads firmware updates on a regular basis. The apps (Netflix, YouTube, etc.) are updated regularly, though the changes aren't always improvements. That said, the apps on my TV are surprisingly serviceable. I can even stream video files directly to it (though an Apple TV does this with better reliability and video quality). The only unforgivable failure…
In 2 years it will be several more orders of magnitude worse than whatever new peripheral I have attached to my tvs, and they will have stopped updating the software on your tv because the hardware can't handle their little tv OS.