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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: 0.204s | 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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Ferret7446 ◴[19 Oct 24 20:05 UTC] No.41890354[source]▶
The entire reason that smart TVs are cheap with ads is because consumers "prefer" that. If (most) people bought expensive TVs with no ads, companies would, you know, sell that.
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1. account42 ◴[21 Oct 24 13:07 UTC] No.41903762[source]▶
Which is of course why cahble TV, which consumers chose as an ad-free alternative to over the air TV, does not have ads.

And it's also why premium streaming, which consumers chose as an ad-free alternative over cable TV, does not have ads.

You can't buy your way out of ads because paying just means the advertisers have extra incentive to put shit in front of your eyes.