This is mostly useless, except to justify buying a bigger TV. However, I did learn:
- For most popular high end models, the 65 inch models are cheapest / sq inch (e.g Sony A95L, Samsung S90D, LG G4). For most others, it’s the 75 inch models.
- TCL S551F 55" scores the lowest ($0.17/sq inch)
- The lowest scoring OLED is the Samsung S85D ($0.55/sq inch)
- For 100 inches, Hisense QD7 is the cheapest ($0.37/sq inch). For 85 inches, it’s the TCL S551F ($0.22/sq inch)
Prices taken from Amazon, rest of the data from https://comparetvprices.com/. Models are from 2022-now.
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You could also move the TV closer to the sofa.
How many square inches does that get me?
If screens were only about size, I’d be easy.
Are you hard?! We’re talking about TV sizes, right?
… Yeah ofc, right. Right?
Here, it’s not demand vs. suply. It’s demand only, that drives prices.
Wait, isn’t that a sign for collusion?
Nothing to see here, just capitalism working as intended…
At least in the case of the Hisense TV I got for my grandparents, a “glitch” with accessibility controls (makes directional inputs unresponsive or multi-press at times) just so happens to make remapping the sponsored remote buttons impossible, as well as breaking the most common method of changing the system launcher, so screen size alone isn’t everything.
Although Hisense still tries to reinstall sponsored apps after I delete them, using Launcher Manager to set a custom launcher that allows for the hiding of unwanted applications and channels made it much more usable for my grandparents.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to redirect YouTube voice input commands to SmartTube Next, so if I ever replace it, that’ll be a factor in my decision too.
Apparently 75" is the sweet spot right now.
Unless they’re priced by if they have built in ads or not, it’s useless.
does anyone use their native smart TV UI anyway?
Most people do.
Mine’s just old enough to not have ads but new enough to have apps for plex and other services I use. Next one is going to be disconnected and have some flashable Android box connected to it. Or even just Apple TV as that’s still better than most native UIs.
Outside sarcastic internet forums? Probably, yeah.
I do.
I use the Jellyfin and Netflix apps mostly.
I want a 3 axis chart of price, size, and number of ads in the UI.
I doubt this will hold up now that they’re owned by Walmart, but I’ve gotten exactly zero ads on Vizio panels since I first bought one in 2017. I have two at the moment and they’re both effectively dumb displays with no network access.
