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Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet?
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Where? Ive been looking everywhere and its like they dont exist anymore
Qb series Samsung are commercial displays but no Netflix or smart features. However, they are about double the price of a standard tv. Will last forever though. I would rather buy a less expensive and not connect it to the network.
They don't really as the "smart" subsidies the cost of the TV. Some commerical grade TVs and large monitors won't be smart or need Internet connectivity.
I got a "signage display", which is basically just a large monitor connected via HDMI.
The problem with those is that the picture quality is not the same as traditional TVs.
I guess. But it's good enough for me and all my content is only in 1080p anyway, so I don't think the display is limiting me too much.
I've resigned myself to large monitors for the 'small TV' and projectors for the 'big TV'
Spectre makes a line of dumb TVs, but I don't think any of them are 4k. I spent about $600 on a 75" 1080p model last year.
Given that you're using this for a laptop, you're looking for a monitor. Not a TV.
Anything suitable for office work should be good here.
I mean... it depends on the type of TV you're trying to replace. If you're on a 65 inch OLED you're not going to replace that with an office monitor.
There are really good "dumb" PC monitors for media watching in the 24-42 inch range, though. They're just... often not cheap.
But even monitors are infected with ‘SmArT teeVEe’ bloat. My pc monitor is basically a TV, and is much worse because of it.
Is it? The monitors I'm currently using are fairly new and don't seem to have any connected tools. There isn't even an app to set them up (which I may actually find practical), it's all OSD stuff.
I think even if there are connected monitors out there, it's certainly easier to find "dumb" monitors, even with high end specs, than dumb TVs. The real hard breaks are size and feature set, in my experience.
I have a Samsung odyssey g8. It’s awful.