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How Did TVs Get So Cheap? - by Brian Potter
Submitted 3 weeks ago by handnutaschnitte@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-did-tvs-get-so-cheap
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AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
db2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And the cheapest components combined with shortcuts that cause early failure.
BirdObserver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As gross as the business is, I do appreciate all the people who blindly agree to all the data mining, privacy violating agreements on their shiny new TVs because they’re a lot of the reason why I can get a 77 inch OLED for so cheap. Manufacturers like LG, Sony and Samsung make some great hardware but their software is worse than Bonzi Buddy.
But yeah, I disable every bit of “smart” and AI functionality (replace it with an Apple TV or something that isn’t loaded with ads and constantly phoning home) and set the location to Albania (which also has the benefit of fully blocking some other “features” from even appearing as an option.
RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We finally had to break down and accept a smart TV as our last purchase. I didn’t want anything like that on my network. It never gets updates, it never talks to home, it never asks me to agree to anything. The way a display should be.
I do have a few IOT monitors, but they are relegated to the banishment VLAN and are unaware there is anything else on network in the house.
For those who want an dumb TV, you want to shop for a commercial signage display. It’s what a TV should be.
Projectors are also a good option if you want a huge picture with a simple display.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
While reading this comment, I’ve realized that like 15 years ago I was dreaming of such a world of cheap devices, partially paid off by their users creating entropy for some deus-ex-machina big data thing that everyone needs. Those dreams had such a retrofuturistic flavor.
I mean, were this done in a way preventing personalized spying, could be nice.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The plot below shows the price of TVs across Best Buy’s Black Friday ads for the last 25 years. The units are “dollars per area-pixel”: price divided by screen area times the number of pixels (normalized so that standard definition = 1). This is to account for the fact that bigger, higher resolution TVs are more expensive. You can see that, in line with the inflation chart, the price per area-pixel has fallen by more than 90%.
Yay! Now do computer ram from 1980 to 2020 before Ai was involved, and discuss size per dollar. You wanna do CPUs or hard drives next?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Post-purchase monetization (viewing and traffic analysis that your “smart tv” phones home about, and that the company who makes your tv sells to advertisers for analytical and targeting purposes).
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Mine has never been connected to the internet.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s great but if you have a lower end one (and maybe higher end - not sure what they’re doing recently tbh), it may try to sniff out unsecured or public access SSIDs to connect without your knowledge or consent and transmit metrics and metadata anyways.