Gotta love how companies can remove features after you’ve bought them. Should be grounds for being eligible return imo

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    5 months ago

    You need small computer there. With self cost + margin + software development costs you typically talk about $100-$200 extra for 4K setup with decent performance. Just look at things like apple TV. I actually do not know, did not investigate how much equivalent dumb TV cost today, but my suspicion is that it is not extra data that covers the cost but

    1. Volume of manufacturing (more smart TVs than dumb TVs are manufactured)
    2. Ability to run adds
    3. I suspect those netflixes, youtubes pay some money to be on by default and having dedicated button on remote control (which still means that customer pays, but now through subscription prices being higher)