- Oct 15, 2013
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Wouldn’t it be great to have a smart TV? Well, not really. Smart TVs have a lot of problems. If you do have a smart TV, you’d be better off combining it with a cheap set-top box rather than actually using its smart features.
Smart TVs are actually a decent idea, in theory. The problem isn’t that the idea of a smart TV is stupid, the problem is that the smart TVs themselves are stupid — or, at least, not very smart.
There are other problems too — always on voice controls mean that your TV is listening to everything you say, and sending it back to unknown third parties. And the companies that make them are trying to find a way to squeeze extra money from you by embedding advertising or getting paid to recommend things.
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