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Your Smart TV is already doing this to sell targeted adverts aimed at you based on what you watch.

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A friendly reminder/suggestion to people looking for a TV:

Sceptre makes consumer 4K "dumb" TVs upto 75". Walmart sells them.

Thank you so much!

I remember reddit being stumped by this question years ago.

I heard in some other HN thread that the quality isn't that great on these. Was that an issue for you? I looked into NEC monitors, but they're a bit pricey. Does anyone know of other options?

I don't own one, sorry :-/

I bought a Sceptre TV. Quality seems fine, but I'm no videophile. It could be that when displaying certain shades of blue, the display is four or five nits dimmer than spec, but I wouldn't know if it was.

Iiyama? Assuming monitor cuts it.

Their TV-sized screens are filed under "large format display".

We have five of these in the office. They're pretty good, and work well from a reliability perspective. These have seen some pretty heavy use in the last two years, one had a power supply issue in the first 90 days that was fixed under warranty, and otherwise they all worked flawlessly.

They're 4K, pretty large and the price was surprisingly low for a screen this large and of this quality.

Sadly, "dumb" TV's are more expensive.

You can also get a "smart" TV, and use it as a dumb one - i.e. never connect it to anything, and only use its AV inputs.

If you buy a "smart" TV, then you're just supporting the market for "smart" TVs.

I prefer to support the market for "dumb" TVs.

Also, if you purchase a "smart" TV, then you either have to open it up and remove the WiFi card (and deal with any anoying messages), or hope no guest ever connects it to anything.

The problem is that if you want 4K, you pretty much don't get any "dumb" TV options of decent quality.

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