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Re:Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions? by danudey on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:39PM (#29383429)
Economies of scale, and subsidies. TVs that ship with Netflix buttons on the remote, Prime Video app, and built-in crappy ads all over the place are being subsidized by those companies.

Meanwhile, no one is buying non-smart TVs, so lower quantities are more expensive.

(Or they know that non-smart TVs are a niche product that they can charge more for.)

Re:Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions? by acchow on Monday November 29, 2021 @05:52PM (#29386365)
Netflix is paying to have the button on the remote? I actually thought it would be the other way around.