Smart TVs are actually pretty stupid between
the slow laggy interfaces frequent advertising and privacy concerns the
user experience often isn't all that great but if you just want a dumb TV
without these features they are shockingly hard to find even cheap TVs
are usually running a smart operating system these days so where have all the
dumb TVs gone I just want a dumb TV
unsurprisingly TV manufacturer have a financial incentive to load down their
products with smart junk you may not want although details of these specific
deals between manufacturers and the companies developing these smart
platforms are kept confidential all of the major Smart TV makers are getting
some kind of Kickback companies like Roku Amazon and Google pay TV
manufacturers to get their operating systems pre-installed and this has
become an important source of revenue for the manufacturers even if you're
buying a TV from a company like Vio or LG which operate their own Smart TV
platforms instead of paying for someone else's they're still monetizing that
operating system one way they do this is through advertisements these are
typically produced and displayed by whoever developed the operating system
so in the case of a company like Vio or LG they're keeping the profits while
platforms like Roku who live on a different company's TV might split
advertising dollars with TCL or whoever actually made the hardware you also
might see free channels built into the operating system these are usually ads
supported with some of that Revenue possibly going to the manufacturer aside
from advertising you often see money flow directly from an app developer to a
TV manufacturer such as through the Netflix Hulu or Apple TV buttons on the
remote these streaming services pay manufacturers for those dedicated
buttons and if you sign up for a subscription to one of these Services
the manufacturer Also may get a cut of that money depending on whether a deal
is in place streaming services can also pay to have their apps pre-installed so
you see them on a home screen out of the box and manufacturers can receive a cut
of that money even if they do not own the operating system okay we get it
smart features make these TV manufacturers a bunch of money but can't
they also make good money selling dumb TVs we'll tell you why they don't do
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close to the break even point and these more value oriented TVs make up about
half of the market these days without Smart features manufacturers would be
taking not insignificant losses on budget sets which would explain why dumb
TVs only account for around 2% of TV
sales these days it's a little bit like how the inkjet printer business works
you sell low-end Hardware at a break even price or even at a small loss then
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Hardware at thin margins but propping themselves up with subsid and AD Revenue
okay but what about the fact that they're often extremely frustrating to
use well although many more technically inclined customers have frequently
complained about the slow performance of the built-in smart features plenty of
people still prefer the convenience of just having streaming functionality in
one device and are willing to put up with a laggy UI in return and it helps
that if it really bothers you you can always buy a separate Streaming Stick or
box which generally have better performance and because so many TV
models are commodity items manufacturers are more concerned about keeping costs
down than they are about Snappy performance if they're cheap enough that
people end up replacing them every few years manufacturers simply aren't going
to worry all that much about ensuring the chips inside can keep up with more
advanced software that rolls out as the years go by instead you'll get
relatively inexpensive Hardware sometimes that has to juggle image
processing the user interface and all that smart junk although this is a bit
less of an issue on higher end TVs and smart features may not be as necessary
on them in order to sell them at a profit there's no reason for them to not
include smart features it's not like these big businesses hate money and
because the cost of adding smart features and the hardware necessary to
support them is fairly trivial there isn't an incentive for these
manufacturers to save money by not
including them but if you really want a dumb TV there are a few smaller brands
that do still manufacture them and if you want something nicer you might look
for commercial grade TVs designed for places like restaurants and airports
where the screen needs to be running continuously but be prepared to pay a
bit more than you might expect barring that just buy yourself a really big
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