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They’re selling like hotcakes because you cannot find non-smart TVs anymore
by helloooooooo 4y ago
They’re selling like hotcakes because you cannot find non-smart TVs anymore
- api 4y agoIt's called a large computer monitor or projector, but you have to pay a lot more because it's not being subsidized by ads or surveillance.
- Kiro 4y agoEven if you could smart TVs would outsell dumb TVs by a great margin.
- asdff 4y agoI don't know if that is true. Everyone I know with a smart TV uses some other device hooked into it (roku, apple tv, video games) to run the actual streaming apps because the TV hardware is so poor. If they could buy a TV that's just a TV and pay a little less to not have those features they aren't ever using, they'd probably do it. Most people just care abut whether a TV is a certain size and only gamers really care about 4k. If you cared about 4k for movies you wouldn't waste that resolution on compressed streaming content; you'd probably have a small blu ray collection.
- Kiro 4y agoAside from a few Apple TVs I don't know many people who do that, especially not Roku which I presume is some American thing, but I know a lot of people who use the apps on their Smart TV. The rest are hooking up the TV to their computer. I also know a lot of people (me included) who wants a 4K TV just to watch Netflix in 4K so I don't think that's generally true. Don't know anyone who uses Blu-ray.
- asdff 4y agoMaybe its a generational thing with us millenials having these devices. Almost everyone I know has a game system, either a PS4/5 or an xbox.
- gertrunde 4y agoThey do exist if you look for them: e.g. https://www.sharpconsumer.uk/electronics/tv/non-smart-tv-hd-full-hd/ https://www.sharpconsumer.uk/electronics/tv/non-smart-tv-hd-... (Edit: size and resolution admittedly not great)