Re: Parents lucked out
Older and more expensive TVs tend to miss out on the wall to wall advertising. Older, because they're not 'smart'. Premium because I'm not paying several thousand dollars for an in-home billboard (that option is for the cheapo sets flogged to the proles).
(Just because its not plastering ads over the screen doesn't mean its not keeping an eye on what you're doing, though.)
(Our main TV -- really a display because we don't do real TV any more -- is an older 52" LCD. It lacks some of the features of newer sets but it has a lot more inputs than newer sets and its dumb. Its only a 1080p but then I doubt that most peoples' eyes have better resolution -- and there's the mater of compression techniques.)(Our hyper cheap modern set from the same manufacturer likes to know all about me and my viewing habits; it gets bored stiff because its only used as a monitor for a Pi.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
