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> that's the cost of turning a profit on screens with no spyware and ads.

I don't think that the cost of TVs has gone down when they added spyware and ads.

You could say that that's the cost of turning less profits, rather, and I suspect that TV manufacturers keep the costs of normal displays high just to discourage their purchase by normal people.