alt Hacker News> But they typically cost way more.
Yes, because the price is not subsidized from the selling of personal information.
> “The business model is shifting away from making money on TV sets and instead to making money on ads and data that is delivered by those TV sets,” said Paul Gray, Omdia’s Research Director, Consumer Electronics and Devices, at last week’s HbbTV Symposium in London.
* https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2024/11/18/tv-companies-sell...
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ragall • today at 5:13 PM
> Yes, because the price is not subsidized from the selling of personal information.
No, it's because their target is businesses which aren't so sensitive to price and like the extended warranty that comes with.
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This is just made up. Spectre sells TVs that do not have any smart features and they do not cost any more than similarly sized TVs.