The “You get what you pay for” excuse doesn’t hold up. My 77-inch LG OLED cost over $3k USD. It’s still full of ads and spies on me unless i neuter it.
$3k for a 77 inch OLED seems pretty cheap to me. You can go cheaper with Samsung TVs, but if you thought WebOS was full of ads, you haven’t seen what Samsung is capable of. I can’t imagine these companies making any profit on the hardware for that price.
If you want a TV without the spyware, look for digital signage displays. LG’s listed price for their OLED displays is “contact us”, but you can find their 77" IPS displays for about $3600 and 55" 1080p displays for about $6k. Other OLED digital signage displays can be had for cheaper, but not for 77"-OLED-for-$3k cheap.
The drive to “biggest, brightest TVs for the least amount of money” has truly ruined the consumer TV market. Even the luxury brands have realised that consumers would rather have ads shoved down their throats than pay a couple hundred dollars extra and it shows.
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The “You get what you pay for” excuse doesn’t hold up. My 77-inch LG OLED cost over $3k USD. It’s still full of ads and spies on me unless i neuter it.
$3k for a 77 inch OLED seems pretty cheap to me. You can go cheaper with Samsung TVs, but if you thought WebOS was full of ads, you haven’t seen what Samsung is capable of. I can’t imagine these companies making any profit on the hardware for that price.
If you want a TV without the spyware, look for digital signage displays. LG’s listed price for their OLED displays is “contact us”, but you can find their 77" IPS displays for about $3600 and 55" 1080p displays for about $6k. Other OLED digital signage displays can be had for cheaper, but not for 77"-OLED-for-$3k cheap.
The drive to “biggest, brightest TVs for the least amount of money” has truly ruined the consumer TV market. Even the luxury brands have realised that consumers would rather have ads shoved down their throats than pay a couple hundred dollars extra and it shows.
I have a 4 year old chromecast 2 that is still going strong 🤷♂️