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Airline seats should get a "hedonic adjustment" downward as seat pitch increases.


Tvs should get a hedonic adjustment equal to the cube of their diagonal length.


I would much rather have an old fashioned dumb tv than a spying, adverising injecting, sluggish smart tv with crappy apps that never get updated. So the hedonic adjustment should definitely be negative.


I just bought a smart tv and never gave it my wifi. I just use it with Apple TV.


Coming soon: TVs with 5G cellular access (sold as a feature) so don't even need to input your wifi.

(https://www.tvtechnology.com/opinions/five-ways-5g-will-chan...)


And the quartic reciprocal of the number of ads they force down your throat.


IMO the adjustment should not be proportional to f(diagonal length), but f(diagonal length, average living room diagonal length), because the optimal viewing experience comes from picking a correct TV size for the distance between you and the screen.

I'm also seconding the proposal for negative hedonic adjustment on TVs (and arguably everything) that's a function of amount of advertising shown through them.




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