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Originally Posted by Frank777 Surprise, the communists are already exploiting smart TVs, and everybody else isn't going to be far behind.

Yup. They have proven themselves to be the top capitalists on the global stage. Utterly ruthless.

Originally Posted by kscherer It's also a mass-production thing. There are fewer and fewer "dumb" TV's being made, so they are getting more expensive compared to the others.

Yup. A decade ago I tried to get a single-HDMI input, no speakers, no tuner, quality display panel. I found one.

It was a 55" class studio reference monitor. For $12k.

Same panel as the 55" plasma I ended up getting for $1200, with a gazillion inputs, 'smart apps', networking, the works.

Of which I use one HDMI input. :/