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by nathan_long 3888 days ago
Hardware suffers from the same "walled garden" mentality. Why the heck would I want a "smart TV"? A TV exists to display video. It should have lots of inputs and maybe some outputs for audio. If I want to get video from a VCR, a flash drive, or a web service, I should be able to plug in a device to do that. And unplug it when it becomes obsolete.