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Smart TVs are actually pretty stupid between

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the slow laggy interfaces frequent advertising and privacy concerns the

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user experience often isn't all that great but if you just want a dumb TV

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without these features they are shockingly hard to find even cheap TVs

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are usually running a smart operating system these days so where have all the

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dumb TVs gone I just want a dumb TV

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unsurprisingly TV manufacturer have a financial incentive to load down their

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products with smart junk you may not want although details of these specific

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deals between manufacturers and the companies developing these smart

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platforms are kept confidential all of the major Smart TV makers are getting

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some kind of Kickback companies like Roku Amazon and Google pay TV

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manufacturers to get their operating systems pre-installed and this has

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become an important source of revenue for the manufacturers even if you're

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buying a TV from a company like Vio or LG which operate their own Smart TV

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platforms instead of paying for someone else's they're still monetizing that

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operating system one way they do this is through advertisements these are

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typically produced and displayed by whoever developed the operating system

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so in the case of a company like Vio or LG they're keeping the profits while

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platforms like Roku who live on a different company's TV might split

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advertising dollars with TCL or whoever actually made the hardware you also

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might see free channels built into the operating system these are usually ads

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supported with some of that Revenue possibly going to the manufacturer aside

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from advertising you often see money flow directly from an app developer to a

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TV manufacturer such as through the Netflix Hulu or Apple TV buttons on the

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remote these streaming services pay manufacturers for those dedicated

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buttons and if you sign up for a subscription to one of these Services

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the manufacturer Also may get a cut of that money depending on whether a deal

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is in place streaming services can also pay to have their apps pre-installed so

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you see them on a home screen out of the box and manufacturers can receive a cut

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of that money even if they do not own the operating system okay we get it

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smart features make these TV manufacturers a bunch of money but can't

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they also make good money selling dumb TVs we'll tell you why they don't do

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including Smart TVs are now commodity Goods that are being sold at prices

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close to the break even point and these more value oriented TVs make up about

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half of the market these days without Smart features manufacturers would be

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taking not insignificant losses on budget sets which would explain why dumb

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TVs only account for around 2% of TV

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sales these days it's a little bit like how the inkjet printer business works

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you sell low-end Hardware at a break even price or even at a small loss then

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that's for losers sell print the ink here TV manufacturers are selling

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Hardware at thin margins but propping themselves up with subsid and AD Revenue

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okay but what about the fact that they're often extremely frustrating to

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use well although many more technically inclined customers have frequently

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complained about the slow performance of the built-in smart features plenty of

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people still prefer the convenience of just having streaming functionality in

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one device and are willing to put up with a laggy UI in return and it helps

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that if it really bothers you you can always buy a separate Streaming Stick or

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box which generally have better performance and because so many TV

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models are commodity items manufacturers are more concerned about keeping costs

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down than they are about Snappy performance if they're cheap enough that

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people end up replacing them every few years manufacturers simply aren't going

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to worry all that much about ensuring the chips inside can keep up with more

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advanced software that rolls out as the years go by instead you'll get

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relatively inexpensive Hardware sometimes that has to juggle image

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processing the user interface and all that smart junk although this is a bit

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less of an issue on higher end TVs and smart features may not be as necessary

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on them in order to sell them at a profit there's no reason for them to not

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include smart features it's not like these big businesses hate money and

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because the cost of adding smart features and the hardware necessary to

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support them is fairly trivial there isn't an incentive for these

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manufacturers to save money by not

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including them but if you really want a dumb TV there are a few smaller brands

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that do still manufacture them and if you want something nicer you might look

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for commercial grade TVs designed for places like restaurants and airports

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where the screen needs to be running continuously but be prepared to pay a

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bit more than you might expect barring that just buy yourself a really big

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computer monitor what what do you it's simple thanks again to Zen market for

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