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I need a new TV and the “smart” TVs are so much grosser than I realized (fucking ADS when I turn them on?? What?!?!) I want a high-quality OLED that just has an HDMI input. I kinda want it to have *one* input and I will buy my own discrete switcher thanks, given how little I trust the companies making these. Is this even possible any more? I am vaguely aware that “commercial panels” are a thing but they all seem lower quality and hard to source and missing basic stuff like color calibration.

@glyph I believe the search term you're looking for is "digital display", TV screens that would normally be used for blasting advertisements and the like. This strategy works best when you bring your own audio setup, though

@glyph The other magical keyword I'm running into is "commercial TV", like so: bestbuy.com/site/samsung-bec-h

(some TV shenanigans may be happening at my place since I can no longer sit in the living room reliably but also my 55" living room TV is too monstrous for my bedroom while my 27" monitor is a taaad small)

www.bestbuy.comBest Buy International: Select your Country - Best BuyShop online at Best Buy in your country and language of choice. Best Buy provides online shopping in a number of countries and languages.

@ehashman yeah, I am familiar with this hash tag life hack, but it has some problems — first and foremost, panel quality and price. See elsewhere in the thread for LG’s product lineup: oldos.me/@jay/1112406016238155

More practically “buy a thing marketed as a big gaming monitor” seems to be the other way to go for high quality + no smarts, although that does effectively put an upper bound on the size, below 50”

OldOsJayF (@jay@oldos.me)@glyph@mastodon.social Couple of real solutions for this: 1) Never allow it to connect to your wifi. Consider physically bricking antenna inside. There are potential cases where it could still circumvent this? IDK... 2) Look for "commerical displays" or "digital signage" e.g. https://www.lg.com/us/business/shop-digital-signage
e. hashman 🇵🇸

@glyph well and there's also the gamer tax (identical products but the one marked gamer is 30% more costly)

@ehashman my research suggests that the tax is pretty negligible on high-end monitors. It’s fairly catastrophic on low-end components or prebuilts festooned with RGB junk, but once you start looking spec-for-spec for good refresh rates and color accuracy the last time I got a display the “gamer” options in the same category were price-competitive

@glyph I'm apparently much more stingy than my average professional peer

@ehashman after housing, food, and education expenses, "good keyboards, chairs, and displays" are my highest priority. this is a frustrating preoccupation because there are *lots* of expensive-but-crappy displays, chairs, and keyboards. being willing to spend is insufficient