Re:Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything
by soared on Friday November 29, 2019 @09:21AM
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Did you do any market research? You can very easily go to any store and still buy dumb TVs. I don’t know where people get the idea that 100% of tvs are smart tvs, but that is false.
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Re:Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything
by nrp on Friday November 29, 2019 @10:42AM
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Rtings pretty comprehensively catalogs and reviews mid and high end TVs. The only TV released in the last two years without WiFi or associated smart functionality is a pretty mediocre 49" TCL. While you can certainly still get smaller 1080p TVs without smarts, you shouldn't have to choose between getting a decent size and panel quality or not having a beefy OS built in.
Re:Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything
by hajhatten on Friday November 29, 2019 @01:29PM
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So you're saying he didn't do his market research? :D
Re:Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything
by tenebrisalietum on Friday November 29, 2019 @05:46PM
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I did. I went to Walmart for their pre-Black Friday sales that start at 6pm, and couldn't find any. Sample size: Easily 500 people in and out of that store per hour, I was there 2 hours.
Walmart represents a store that is easy to go to for much of the US population. That means a good percentage of people in the US are buying TVs at places that don't offer non-smart TVs for sale.