26. TV with a PC OS

TV with a PC OS
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Sony's TV division is losing money and has fewer sales as compared to their competitors. I have a Sony's TV by the way [somehow I like products developed by Japanese], because I didn't need lots of features on a TV such as surfing the Internet using TV [all I looked for was to compare pictures and colors of all available TVs at a store display, i.e. Future Shop/Best Buy/WalMart]. The Internet surfing does not work on my TV, but pre-loaded ones such as YouTube were fine.

I liked the pictures/colors, which are better than their competitors, but it was sold at higher prices [I bought mine at a special sale]. The competitor models added more features to their TV as I heard from others and sold at lower prices.

I guess, Sony developed everything including software on their TV --> expensive for development and testing. Even the portable WiFi adapter was proprietary and sold at $100, while others for computers were sold at around $30 in store.

I think, if they integrated other products like Windows OS on their platform for Internet stuff, it should be less expensive and let Microsoft worry about those, because Internet is bread and butter for Microsoft. There are also many third party software or products developed on Windows OS for use. They just focus on TV stuff, e.g. display on screen, quality of pictures, etc. I really like a wireless keyboard and mouse connected to a TV if Internet surfing is offered on a TV, i.e. I don't like using a TV remote control to type. Currently there are many USB wireless keyboard and mouse sold in the market at low prices.
--> It does not mean they only use Microsoft OS in the TV. They could use Microsoft OS to communicate with other Internet apps out there, pass info to their software or proprietary OS to display or further processing. There are tons of Internet applications available, and somehow Microsoft have to support those --> otherwise users won't buy Windows OS.

Touch screen TV would not work, unless it is a fashion. Nobody would be comfortable to stay close to a large TV screen, and select items. Btw, I don't like any touch screen devices including smart phones --> screen looks dirty with oil and dirt after a while. I still prefer a laptop. Hopefully the thinner laptop would fall within my budget range one day.

FYI: developing everything from scratch would take longer time and expertise [expensive] -> quantity sold must be high to compensate higher cost of development. Windows OS installed on a computer is sold at lower price, because they sold hundreds of millions copies worldwide. I recalled the early version of Windows OS was sold at around $550 - now a better Windows OS was sold at around $150 due to higher sale volumes [special sale may be at $100].

* Notes: I read an article about licensing Windows OS on a smart phone. It said that manufactures would pay around $20 - $30 per each smart phone sold. Probably this was the cost to pay for licensing Windows OS on special devices or equipment -> I don't know.

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