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swbf2lord said:

You know, that brings up an interesting thought. What if our TVs could replace consoles? Now that would be nice. I'm not suggesting Apple TV / Google TV / Amazon TV would be the way to do it. I mean the actual TV. All-in-one's are close enough I suppose, though I'd like to find a more powerful one.


The problem here is in asking TV manufacturers to do software. They don't have the competency and their margins are too thin to invest in it. Hence why "Smart TV" features are broadly despised by consumers. Even manufacturers which have some software experience, like Sony and Samsung, seem incapable of bringing that to the TV in a meaningful way.

And then you have replacement cycle issues. TVs get replaced every decade or so. Desktops and consoles every five years. Smartphones and tablets every two or three. TVs simply don't iterate fast enough to keep pace with the world of computing.



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