I've used projectors for the past 15-odd years. Modern ones are very, very good in that they're portable, can run on batteries, don't need to be plugged directly into your laptop etc. The trade-off is that we don't really watch anything until the evening. The only ads we see are the ones from streaming services.

I have a hard time understanding why anyone would buy a physical tv that big. I decided to get a projector. Huge surface area. Goes away/out of my sight for the 98% of the time I'm not using/watching it.

My gf and I don't have a television, but we watch Ghibli movies on my 13" laptop on a stool parked in front of my couch. In CRT's heydey, you'd have to be pretty rich to get more than a 24" screen, and that was just fine back then. The brain focuses attention on the story and blocks out everything else, the same way that you don't notice the rest of the theater during an opera or play (at least one that's engrossing).

So, if the trade-off is size vs advertising, I'd prefer to have a small, ad-free monitor instead of a large ad-box.

Unless it complains at you to connect it to wifi when you turn it on.

I intended on using mine that way, but honestly the built in Netflix and USB stick player are decent enough. As long as your receiver does the eARC thing it should all be fine.

Not sure if they are a reality or just a MBA's wet dream yet: TVs with integrated eSIM to not even require WIFI for transmitting usage data and ads.

Last I checked, availability on those dumb Sceptres was trending to zero.