I probably need to re-evaluate the pricing on 40 inch computer monitors, if I can find a non-4K one.
Why is a non-4k one preferred? I notice it's discontinued now and there are newer LG 43" monitors (with maybe better blacks/saturation).
Can you expand on this? What is this law? What's the impact on a TV vs. a monitor?
https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/consumer/phone_interne... Has a summary.
Sceptre Model U65 is a 4K UHD, 65” 3840x2860 that supports Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) upscaling, HDMI 2.0, HDCP v2.2.
Best part?
No Ethernet plug nor WiFi.
It’s nearly $649 USD (or still almost $10/screen-inch).
Smart TV have a absolute requirement of having an Ethernet port/WiFi in which to “optionally” do Internet with.
That's crazy expensive for a TV of such quality.
Btw, I watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4o3E1Yjvp8 it's an Android TV
Someone in the comments on youtube says: "They actually do more than pay the bills with those buttons on the remote. I've heard that at least Netflix and Disney+ will outright not allow their apps to be pre-installed onto a TV if there is not a dedicated button for the app on the remote. So if Sony wants to include Netflix, Disney+, or other major streaming services on their internal OS, they usually have to include that button on their remote."
This screams like an anti-competitive practice.
For my last major TV purchase, rtings.com was the most useful resource I could find for understanding the differences between options at the size I was looking for. They also have good roundups of the best overall TV brands¹, as well as regular roundups of the best options in several categories (size, primary use, etc.).
Long story short: they ain't LGs, but they're surprisingly acceptable for the price.
Fails if they’re using DoH, but older gear isn’t going to have that functionality built in yet.
For this reason you will most likely buy tiny Android TV boxes, which will be cheap and replaceble.
I have a Vero 4K+ which I don't get much use out of (don't seem to find much time these days for movies/tv) but is a reasonably nice ARM64 device running a derivative of Debian Linux with OSMC on top... you can get in under the hood using SSH and mess around if you like, although it may break the warranty. My only complaint is I haven't had much luck using it for Amazon Prime video playback (needs a 3rd party community add-on, and something along the chain is causing weird stuttering issues... suspect a DRM issue), but I haven't spent too much effort on that. For SMB file playback and so on it works quite nicely.
