<story><title>Dual 75“ 4K TV Floor Computing</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/battlestations/comments/toecyt/dual_75_4k_tv_floor_computing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sujan</author><text>(Reputable) source?</text></item><item><author>Arubis</author><text>&amp;gt; Why are monitors so expensive and old tech compared to TVs?&lt;p&gt;(“Smart”) TVs are subsidized by the push advertising and analytics crammed into their firmware.</text></item><item><author>mnkmnk</author><text>I am tempted to do this, at least as a FU to the monitor industry. There is so little innovation in monitor tech! Why are monitors so expensive and old tech compared to TVs? I just want an affordable large monitor with 120Hz refresh rate and USB-C for coding, but options are quite limited. All monitor innovation is into HDR and super high refresh rate which I don’t care about. And prices seem artificially high.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joezydeco</author><text>Bill Baxter (CTO, Vizio)&lt;p&gt;Smart TVs continue to make money for the manufacture after the sale by providing data to viewer measurement and consumer research companies and through all of those apps they integrate in the TV’s smart functions and subsequent app usage.&lt;p&gt;“This is a cutthroat industry,” Baxter went on to say.  “It’s pretty ruthless. The greater strategy is I really don’t need to make money off the TV. I need to 
cover my costs.”&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cjni.com&amp;#x2F;smart-tvs-too-smart&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cjni.com&amp;#x2F;smart-tvs-too-smart&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Dual 75“ 4K TV Floor Computing</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/battlestations/comments/toecyt/dual_75_4k_tv_floor_computing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sujan</author><text>(Reputable) source?</text></item><item><author>Arubis</author><text>&amp;gt; Why are monitors so expensive and old tech compared to TVs?&lt;p&gt;(“Smart”) TVs are subsidized by the push advertising and analytics crammed into their firmware.</text></item><item><author>mnkmnk</author><text>I am tempted to do this, at least as a FU to the monitor industry. There is so little innovation in monitor tech! Why are monitors so expensive and old tech compared to TVs? I just want an affordable large monitor with 120Hz refresh rate and USB-C for coding, but options are quite limited. All monitor innovation is into HDR and super high refresh rate which I don’t care about. And prices seem artificially high.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MrVitaliy</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.samsung.com&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;samsungads&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.samsung.com&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;samsungads&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zdnet.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;i-spent-3000-on-a-samsung-smart-tv-and-all-i-got-were-ads-and-unwanted-content&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zdnet.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;i-spent-3000-on-a-samsung-smar...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>