I want to buy a large new tv mostly for my steamdeck. I dont want it to access the internet for obvious reasons. I live in a community with wide open wifi everywhere that requires no password, so devices turned on here just hook up automatically. Im not tech savvy so wont be doing any raspberry pi black magic. Any suggestions about specific televisions or workarounds in this situation would be greatly appreciated.
As far as connecting the internet, there shouldn’t be any issue. I seriously doubt it will automatically connect to anything unless you tell it to.
Thanks for the link. Super helpful. I guess Im assuming in our new zero privacy dystopia that manufacturers would automatically have wifi turned on the second you powered up your tv or not allow you to use it until it “updates” or you create an “account”. Christ man, starting to think this world is giving me paranoia and ptsd.
Get TVs made specifically for commercial use. They tend to be cheaper and have all the stupid “smart” features stripped out.
gah. I really want an oled tv that is just a monitor
LG recently had a nice set of stripped-down-to-monitor TVs, i.e. TVs without that “smart” crap. Available in TV sizes, but none of the junk that spouts ads or intrudes into your privacy.
I have an Onn TV that I quite enjoy. I intend to eventually connect it to an isolated network where it won’t have real Internet access, but for now I just use it as a 4k dumb tv
What price point and country?
Usa, up to maybe $500
Just got the 55 TCL QM7 for 498 on Amazon it’s pretty awesome.
OP stated he wanted a large TV though. I don’t think a 55” TV qualifies as large.
I feel old, but also haven’t bought a TV in ages so I don’t really know the market. 55" used to be very large unless you wanted to shell out serious $$
You can get a 77” for around 1k if you wait for a good deal.
That’s nuts to me. We paid around $1.2k for our 55" about 10 years ago. 77" also feels way too big for our space, but it would be nice to jump up from 1080 and have more contrast/dynamic range, etc. I recently bought a laptop with a 3k OLED display and it’s beautiful. An OLED TV seens like it would be amazing.
I went from a 50” to a 65” to a 77”, I live in an apartment, maybe 3.5m viewing distance. You go from “damn that’s big” to “I wish I could afford something bigger” in about 2 days.
Fortunately prices keep coming down so if you upgrade every 5-10 years or so you can usually afford the next step up. I currently have what was LG’s top of the line OLED last year (77” G3) and it was about €3k5.
