[upon_drumhead]

Actually, I'm curious as to why someone would buy a Roku tv and not hook it up to the internet?

[MBCook]

Since they’re subsidized by all the spyware/services they’re cheap.

So people buy them, even people who (like many ok HN) hate “smart TVs” and intend to only use it as a monitor for an Apple TV, Chromecast, cable box, etc.