alt Hacker NewsKinda a wild idea I had never really considered, but absolutely a possibility: using a TV as a loss leader to sell ads.
Not sure if that's they're intent here, but I could easily see that becoming a thing (if it isn't already). And what better way to collect useful ad data on people than forcing them to create an account and then tracking their usage of the device.
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This has been a thing for years, and so much so, that there's an entire TV with a dedicated second screen that shows you ads underneath your main screen: https://www.telly.com
> Kinda a wild idea I had never really considered, but absolutely a possibility: using a TV as a loss leader to sell ads.
They did it with a computer to sell ISP services. Maybe they could sell a TV that requires streaming subscriptions?
https://www.theregister.com/2000/03/20/circuit_city_shuts_do...
TV has always been a loss leader for propaganda, so why not?
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> using a TV as a loss leader to sell ads
That's Amazon's Fire TVs in a nutshell.
it is definitely a thing. a 65" 4K OLED tv costs less than 32GB of ram!
practically every other electronic has gone up in price like crazy, tvs have gone down.
That's been the standard for a decade. $200 for a 4k 55" TV is not realistic without a secondary profit source