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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: 0s | 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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silisili ◴[19 Oct 24 19:56 UTC] No.41890295[source]▶
I think you'll find the price at that volume and without subsidy a bit higher than a lot of people want to pay.

It may be cheaper and even easier to just buy and somehow modify Onn/Hisense into dumb displays, though I've never explored the idea myself to know how feasible it even is.

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leptons ◴[19 Oct 24 20:37 UTC] No.41890602[source]▶
Just don't connect the "smart" Tv to the internet. It's still a "dumb display" if you don't give it internet access. Don't give it wifi access, don't plug in an ethernet cable.
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M_bara ◴[19 Oct 24 20:54 UTC] No.41890704[source]▶
I think the hdmi standard allows for Ethernet over hdmi. That’s a sneaky way in for your tv
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1. leptons ◴[20 Oct 24 20:46 UTC] No.41898316[source]▶
Pretty sure you need a special cable that carries ethernet, as well as a device at the other end that supplies ethernet to HDMI, so you have to really want to let your "smart" tv to have access to the internet.