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Trogdor1123 · Sunday at 4:43 PM

KungFucius said:
While this is obviously what a lot of us want, they price TVs so low because the smart stuff makes them money. So a naked TV would be much more expensive. I am not sure I would pay for it since the annoyance using my smart TV is only there when I turn it on to use my PC or switch inputs.

How much does it make them? I'd like to read more about this

Kuranghi · Sunday at 5:02 PM

SomeNorseGuy said:
I'm quite happy with my current tv, so no biggie.

Even my wife says she's think the size is adequate ...she wouldn't lie about that right? Right guys?

The size of a TV is inversely proportional to its WAF or Wife Acceptance Factor.

One way to trick your wife into allowing for a larger TV is to replace all the other objects in the room with ones 20% larger so the TV suddenly appears too small, its like the opposite of trimming your bush.

Seriously though here's some tips on how you get a new and/or larger TV when the old one is still working fine:

1. Suggest putting it on the wall to "save space" in the room, when it goes on the wall it will look much smaller and it might stick off the wall cause its thick, now you "need" a new TV to "keep the aesthetics of the room in balance"

2. Take the fuse out of the plug: "the power supply's failed love, I've read about this online"

3. Leave a looped video of objects being thrown around at high speed on the TV for your child to watch then "accidentally" leave a box of bouncy balls sitting next to the child.

4. PM a friend who recently got a new TV and have them encourage their wife to make a social post about it that your wife will see: "The media wall turned out so great let's flaunt it darlin!"

5. Watch Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon and make sure you have a subscription for 4K HDR on the streaming service: "I cant see a bloody thing going on love, battle of the blind bastards more like!"

CobraAB · Sunday at 7:22 PM

The AI overlords have everyone by the shot hairs....

Pasta la Vista · Sunday at 9:09 PM

Unknown Soldier said:
TV's are by far the cheapest consumer goods period but this might actually cause problems because the reason they are cheap is they pacify the masses

This graph is kinda misleading considering the expenses at the top are like ongoing expenses, bills every month, etc. Electronics are mostly a one time purchase over a longer period of time.

Unknown Soldier · Sunday at 9:13 PM

Pasta la Vista said:
This graph is kinda misleading considering the expenses at the top are like ongoing expenses, bills every month, etc. Electronics are mostly a one time purchase over a longer period of time.

Cellphone services is right there

In theory, college is a once in a lifetime expense

Bojji · Sunday at 9:14 PM

Pasta la Vista said:
This graph is kinda misleading considering the expenses at the top are like ongoing expenses, bills every month, etc. Electronics are mostly a one time purchase over a longer period of time.

And that's one of the main reasons why the world is fucked up for post boomer/gen x generations. Essential stuff is the most expensive ever.

kiphalfton · Sunday at 9:41 PM

StereoVsn said:
What's interesting that in the age of AI, classical studies would be very pertinent.

They teach classical thinking, philosophy, reasoning, critical thought, reading long / difficult texts and more. This is all extremely helpful when working with AI systems.

Instead we have shit like gender studies and anti-colonialism as required subjects of modern education.

Universities/colleges seem to see things more from a business perspective, and less from an educational perspective, and don't seem to care about not wasting students time to pointless courses.

TheThreadsThatBindUs said:
That's not what your wife says to me.

You're doing it wrong if you're having pillow talk.

nbcjr · Sunday at 9:43 PM

Trogdor1123 said:
Maybe they could just make high quality panels and drop all the ~~spying~~ smart stuff

Exactly. Go back to simply having tvs. The ram is only needed for the smart OS.

Fabieter · Sunday at 9:56 PM

nbcjr said:
Exactly. Go back to simply having tvs. The ram is only needed for the smart OS.

I doubt its the ram that makes it more expensive.

KeithMars · Monday at 11:54 AM

Kuranghi said:
The size of a TV is inversely proportional to its WAF or Wife Acceptance Factor.

One way to trick your wife into allowing for a larger TV is to replace all the other objects in the room with ones 20% larger so the TV suddenly appears too small, its like the opposite of trimming your bush.

Seriously though here's some tips on how you get a new and/or larger TV when the old one is still working fine:

1. Suggest putting it on the wall to "save space" in the room, when it goes on the wall it will look much smaller and it might stick off the wall cause its thick, now you "need" a new TV to "keep the aesthetics of the room in balance"

2. Take the fuse out of the plug: "the power supply's failed love, I've read about this online"

3. Leave a looped video of objects being thrown around at high speed on the TV for your child to watch then "accidentally" leave a box of bouncy balls sitting next to the child.

4. PM a friend who recently got a new TV and have them encourage their wife to make a social post about it that your wife will see: "The media wall turned out so great let's flaunt it darlin!"

5. Watch Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon and make sure you have a subscription for 4K HDR on the streaming service: "I cant see a bloody thing going on love, battle of the blind bastards more like!"

"Wife Acceptance Factor"
What decade/millennium are we in?

Polaris · Monday at 2:40 PM

At this point, I'll just purchase PC monitors instead of TVs.

All I need is a couple of HDMI ports.

I don't want any of this smart (now A.I.) crap.

Aressa · Monday at 2:42 PM

Are you threatening me Samsung? Because you know I can always go to TCL.

Cyberpunkd · Monday at 2:43 PM

KeithMars said:
"Wife Acceptance Factor"
What decade/millennium are we in?

21st century obviously, it if was 1950s your wife wouldn't have jack shit to say what you buy for your home. She's there to cook and have sex with you, not give opinions.

Cyberpunkd · Monday at 2:44 PM

Aressa said:
Are you threatening me Samsung? Because you know I can always go to TCL.

TCL right now:

Spying I Hear You GIF by NOW WE'RE TALKING TV SERIES

Paulxo87 · Monday at 2:50 PM

Ellis said:
You pay 2K for a new OLED, only to be bogged down by a bloated and slow Android OS that has also only got 4GB ram to work with, if you're lucky.

My 2025 Bravia has 4GB memory, and 4GB Internal storage.

If you're gonna charge me silly money for a nice TV, put the hardware inside it you tight fucks, and not charge me even more money for the same weak hardware you've been using for the last few years already.

And don't you just miss when you could turn your TV on and not have to wait two minutes for thing bloody thing to boot up.

Idk. My a95L with Google OS is fast as fuck.

Unknown Soldier · Monday at 3:13 PM

Aressa said:
Are you threatening me Samsung? Because you know I can always go to TCL.

Many people already have. Samsung's market share in TV's has absolutely collapsed in the past 5 years as the Chinese manufactuers have been dramatically undercutting them. Now that Samsung gave up their only Trump card and divested their LCD panels manufacturing business (ironically to TCL), they are forced to buy panels from China like everyone else and China is purposely only selling them lower quality panels and keeping their best panels for themselves

As recently as 2023, Samsung's global market share for TV's was around 45%, by the end of 2025 it was down to 29%. Being 29% of the world's TV market sounds nice until you realize how much it has fallen in just a few years

Samsung also fucked up quite dramatically by trying to push their OLED TV's on the high end and deprecating their own high end LCD lineup even though LCD TV's are 97% of the global TV market and OLED TV's are 3% of the market. The Chinese have really taken a lot of Samsung's high end market away simply by focusing on mini-LED backlit LCD instead of OLED

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