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I've got an order out for a digital signage display to replace my living room tv. It was more than I would've spent on a "smart" tv but it's a dumb box that I can plug anything I want into. If they sold dumb TV's still I'd probably upgrade some of the other TV's my family has, but fuck smart TV's.
What’s the go-to vendor/manufacturer for this sort of dumb tv these days?
Sharp NEC is the brand I bought from. They have models you can put a raspberry pi directly inside of it. I've got a pi with librelec waiting for the screen to show up. However they're really expensive. Sceptre makes more affordable dumb TV's but they don't make very large ones.
I heard the color accuracy and gamut on these signage displays are terrible. Know if there’s any reviews out there with this kinda info?
How do they compare to TVs? At least the last time I looked into it, pretty much every TV was terrible compared to even a halfway decent computer monitor.
OLED TVs are insanely good and spoiled using the computer altogether for me, until I got an OLED monitor. At least on my LG B2, the color gamut and contrast are extremely good. I can’t stand LCDs for anything dark as the backlight bleed really washes out the picture.
The 85 inch display I've got coming is listed as 4k HDR with full array local dimming. As far as actual accuracy is concerned, I've heard good things about Sharp NEC specifically but I won't know until my unit eventually arrives.