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My solution: Buy a very large monitor.
Then connect some streaming box to it you can easily replace if/when it gets shitty, instead of having to replace the whole TV.
The fuck you getting a 55 in monitor from?
This one for example.
I own an older model version of it from a few years back, combined with a Google TV Chromecast.
Yes, it's more expensive than a midrange TV, but it also lasts me a lot longer and isn't stuffed with ads. If I'm ever sick of Google TV I can try to jailbreak/root it, without the risk of bricking the entire TV, or just replace it.
Great idea! I know exactly what to buy next + better color accuracy than TV which mostly comes with over saturated color labeled as cinematic mode!
I would love to if they sold 65" monitors lol
https://www.google.com/search?q=65%22+commercial+display
Be careful with commercial displays. Some are just designed to show static ads or pictures, which means they have a very slow response time or low resolution.
For those prices I'd rather have an OLED with ads.
I don't know, I'd be fine with a 55 inch 4k ViewSonic display for under $600. The 65 was $850 and $1200 for 75 inches. That seems relatively normal, right?
Ok. That was always an option.
Google? smh
You can also just buy a big tv and use it as a monitor streaming from a box or pc. It is considerably cheaper.
That's the idea but being honest there aren't many nice streaming box. Like there is Roku and the Xiaomi one? What else? Fire TV? Chromecast I do not count because you need to cast to it.
I mean I guess you can setup a PC somehow but....
I have a Google Chromecast TV, good enough and cheap.
Oh so that's like with Google TV / Android TV ui without need of casting and you can install apps?
Yeah it's decently powerful as to not lag massively and you can disable most but not all of the ads / clutter they bundle with it.
Using a PC is definitely the easiest.
The Nvidia Shield is amazing.
Oh yeah that's another one.
Monitors are significantly more expensive than TVs and have features that TVs don't require.
That's true, but I considered it an investment for longer term instead of buying a cheaper midrange TV. With the exception of lacking HDMI 2.1, my 55" monitor has all the modern features, with the bonus of having dual input modes and a displayport.
It's basically what "dumb" TV's used to be, minus the antenna, but that's fine as a cord cutter.
That seems like a very expensive alternative to not giving a smart TV your Wi-Fi password.