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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by Retric on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @07:09PM (#28296122)
Smart TV’s are negative costs to the manufacturers as in they get paid more to install them than they actually cost.

Manufacturers therefore have zero incentives to manufacture non smart TV’s.

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by hilbert42 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:16AM (#28297991)
There would be a damn good incentive to manufacture dumb TVs if governments added taxs/duties to their smart TVs if they did not also manufacturer dumb ones.
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