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Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements

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373 points h2odragon | 1 comments | 19 Oct 24 17:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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rglullis ◴[19 Oct 24 19:05 UTC] No.41889863[source]▶
I am seriously considering creating a dropship company focused exclusively on buying and selling electronic components that are sold for parts and people can assemble them at home, Ikea-style.

I would start with selling 50" and 65" inch "dumb" TVs. Just the panel, a nice enclosure and a board with an IR receiver, TV tuner and HDMI outputs. BYO top box and Soundbar. I wonder how fast it would take to get 10000 orders.

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CooCooCaCha ◴[19 Oct 24 19:11 UTC] No.41889916[source]▶
Is it even possible to just buy panels for normal consumers?
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beAbU ◴[19 Oct 24 19:25 UTC] No.41890044[source]▶
Look up "large format display". Its basically a TV sans any smart shit. Used in commercial display applications, dynamic menus in restaurants, info panels etc.

They are mad expensive because presumably they are not subsidised by the shitware that "smart" tvs ship with.

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1. fy20 ◴[19 Oct 24 23:46 UTC] No.41891724[source]▶
If you buy a model that's one or two years old, they aren't actually that much. E.g. My company paid €700 for a 55" Samsung digital signage display.

I'm not sure about using it as a TV (no speakers, matte display), but as a monitor it looks really nice.

The higher cost is because the hardware is designed to run for years 24/7, and the compute hardware is (a little bit) more powerful than regular TVs.