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Originally Posted by conan50
TV's are dirt cheap because many of them have Fire TV OS or Roku on board or the manufacturers OS. These allow them to monetize the users, sell more ads, gather lots of info on viewer habits.
I prefer dumb old TV's that don't connect to the Internet, but it gets harder to find one every year because these subsidized TV's are taking over.
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Thankfully TVs tend to last many years. I’m still using a Sony Bravia 40” I bought on BF 2008 (11 years ago) and it has no internet connection nor apps built in. But it still looks better than most of the new inexpensive smart TVs I’ve seen. I’ve got a 26” Visio smart TV in my study that is only 4 years old, the picture is okay but not great, and none of the built-in apps are worth a bleep! I have to use Fire TV and Roku boxes/dongles because those inexpensive smart TVs rarely, if ever, update their apps. Being a smart TV has no advantage if the manufacturer never updates the apps.