A friend is looking for one and I don’t know what to recommend.

Assuming that the goal is to never connect it to the internet and plug in another device with HDMI.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I wouldn’t get a television. I would get a monitor. No UI. No smart features. Just a black square that had HDMI inputs.

    If you really want to watch OTA TV, you can buy box tuners that connect to the HDMI. Usually with DVR capability.

    It will cost more. Like…a LOT more. But thats just what regular TVs used to cost back in the 90s. You wanted a bigscreen tv? $800 then, which would be like $2,000 now. And “big screen” was like 55 inch. Though it was a 4:3 ratio. So 55 inch then wold be more like 70 inch now in a 16:9 ratio.

    • Mugita Sokio@discuss.online
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      15 hours ago

      Honestly, same with me. I’d go for a CRT TV, though, and play old video games through that (or just connect a PC to a smaller monitor that’s manageable).