You are obviously not the target audience for this article. They also are not going to put high-quality panels in any "dumb" TVs they do deign to manufacture.
Agree on the last part. Some of these bells and whistles are silly, but the common thread in "dumb" TVs is basically that they will be using the cheesiest possible hardware across the board. Which is really saying something since they need to be worse than the entry-level Smart TVs -- which are already cost-reduced to a comical degree.
Some of my other "favorite" things about the dumb TV i bought for the kids room:
* Only a single button - you have to hold it down to turn it off, I think? Single press cycles inputs.
* Stand made of two flimsy pieces of plastic at the sides so you need a super wide table for it.
On the other hand, at least it doesn't need to "boot up." :D
> You are obviously not the target audience for this article
That's a bit of a cop-out. If someone else wrote a letter into the wire-cutter asking about the best skim-milk, and the response was that skim milk is nutritionally inferior to whole-milk, so you should at least buy 2% milk if you aren't going to buy whole, and I actually want skim-milk, am I "not the target audience" for the article?
> The also are not going to put high-quality panels in any "dumb" TVs they do deign to manufacture
I don't know how it currently is, but it used to be that there were far fewer panel manufacturers than companies selling TVs, so anyone with enough volume could make a TV, so this is only true if "they" encompasses all possible TV manufacturers.
