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Re:All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem by dragonwriter on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @03:11PM (#9648225)
Otherwise-equivalent Smart TVs are usually less expensive than displays (whether TVs or monitors) without the "Smart" features. This is a matter probably largely of economies of scale -- because that's what manufacturers think the consumer market wants, that's what they make most of and flood consumer channels with, and dumb alternatives are a specialty product.
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Re:All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem by wutbrodo on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @03:41PM (#9648419)
Good to know, thanks. I haven't bought a TV for about five years and I've never bought (or even been interested in) a Smart TV, for roughly the same reasons described here.

EDIT: hullo's comment below would seem to contradict this; 32" TVs from Samsung seem like a fair data point to look at (albeit just one data pt), since it's a very mainstream manufacturer and a non-niche size.

"Picking a manufacturer (Samsung) and size (32") at random, I see the smart TV for $499 and non-smart options for 219, 269, 299. http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/all-products Just for example."

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Re:All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem by rsync on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @03:54PM (#9648509)
My last three "TVs" have been commercial display panels. These are the NEC panels that you see in the airport (turned on their side) for departure/arrival boards.

They are more expensive than a best buy model. Not terribly so, however, otherwise the airport couldn't buy 200 of them.

They are incredible displays.

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Re:All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem by detaro on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @04:28PM (#9648717)
How would one go about finding them? (search terms, manufacturers...)
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Re:All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem by 33W on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @06:06PM (#9649347)
"Commercial display panels NEC" led me to this: http://www.necdisplay.com/category/large-screen-displays
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Re:All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem by spyder on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @03:11AM (#9651023)
"Large format display" http://www.newegg.com/Large-Format-Displays/SubCategory/ID-6...
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