So yet another reason not to get a smart tv. You don't even know if you will be able to keep all the services you bought it with. Smart tvs are just a bad idea. if they can demonstrate that the tv would otherwise cost $500 more then i guess it may be worth it but i doubt anyone could do that. Its hard to say without a non smart tv on the market at all to compare to.
Yep, I got a refurb computer for $100 3 years ago and it plays absolutely everything. I never have to worry about anything stopping working for the foreseeable future, unless a service is cancelled completely. I would love to be able to buy a dumb display, but they just don't exist. The best you can do is get a TV and never connect it to the internet.
You don't have to pay extra, necessarily, if you shop around. I have seen them quite well-priced. And in general, there are signage displays that don't cost more, or at least don't cost much more. And they tend to have the very best brightness, contrast ratios, and viewing angles because all of those things are useful to their primary mission.
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Yep, I got a refurb computer for $100 3 years ago and it plays absolutely everything. I never have to worry about anything stopping working for the foreseeable future, unless a service is cancelled completely. I would love to be able to buy a dumb display, but they just don't exist. The best you can do is get a TV and never connect it to the internet.
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Dumb TVs absolutely do still exist. Look for digital signage displays.
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Paying extra for that is silly. At least with LG, you can pretty well just leave it on HDMI 1 and ignore the smarts.
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You don't have to pay extra, necessarily, if you shop around. I have seen them quite well-priced. And in general, there are signage displays that don't cost more, or at least don't cost much more. And they tend to have the very best brightness, contrast ratios, and viewing angles because all of those things are useful to their primary mission.