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TV manufacturers salivated at the idea of TV resolution, hoping desperately to turn the TV market into something like the PC market, in that you have to upgrade every 5ish years to stay on top of technology and use the latest stuff to artificially increase sales beyond what their already abysmal build qualities provide them.
I'm glad the plan is failing spectacularly.
Hopefully this forces them to think more about quality and start focusing on TVs that actually last now... You know, like we used to have 30 years ago.
Pfff, they've just turned to adware-laden boxes. Next they'll make up some BS about requiring the device to be Internet connected so you can't disable ads too easily.
That's a big part of enshitification: maximizing profit at the sacrifice of product quality. All of those pro-capitalist folk want you to believe the market will correct itself. The problem is when the entire market is dominated by this mentality and anyone (doing anything different) tries to enter that market is snuffed out immediately. None of the major brands will stray from this model because they are completely and hopelessly servant to the shareholder, and all that matters to them is maximizing profits at any cost. Yay enshitification!
Yep, and that added complexity to make a dumb TV smart, just means theres more parts that are likely to die and make ethe TV not work.
Its bullshit that the only way to get large dumb TVs anymore is to roll the dice on a Scepter.. Which, given how they procure their screens, could either give you a great TV or a shit TV.