Originally Posted by
green granite
I admit to being a tad puzzled as to why a company would produce a device with all the bells and whistles on it and then just inhibit them to sell it cheaper. I know it happens with things like CPU's where it's produced as a 3 gig but is only stable up to say 2.8 so it's sold as a 2.8 one, or a DVD player set for different regions, but not for enhancements.
In the case of the Samsung it was a simple as changing the model number in the service menu. The TV cost no more to produce than the next model up, it only had some enhancements curbed.
As you sayr, why? In this case other than profit I fail to find an answer.