Edit: thank you for all the kind suggestions! 🩷 I ended up keeping my current TV for now. I was this 🤏 close to buying a 48 inch LG B6E. Just before heading to the store, I got cold feet and decided to look through the settings of my current TV again. It’s a 43 inch Panasonic 6700 from 2020. I don’t know how I didn’t realize this until now, but I was actually able to remove ALL preinstalled apps, which made the TV way snappier. I also found, after an unreasonable amount of digging, that there is a setting under input sources - HDMI 1 called HDMI Ultra HD that was TURNED OFF by default. 😱 My only gripe with my Panasonic is that it emits a lot of heat. When I checked out the LG earlier today, it barely felt hot at all… Well well… The heatwave is passing anyways, so… 😅
While I would relish the opportunity to live the rest of my life with a CRT TV, those are unreasonably expensive, being vintage and whatnot… :(
For circa five years, I have been debloating, deslopping and deshittifying my smartphones. Is this something that can be done on a modern TV too?
Preferably, I’d skip all that and instead buy a no slop, no bullshit TV. I want it to have an HDMI port, next gen picture quality and a size of 43 inches, give or take. No budget limitations as of yet. Hit me with your best shot!
Slop/bullshit = apps, AI, anything not directly related to playing motion pictures over HDMI.
True, but they can just connect their app-based streaming box of choice.
Uh-huh and that changes his criteria how?
OP never said what they’re planning to play over HDMI. It very well could be app-based video, just from a separate streaming box/stick device. Your warning about needing apps to get the best video seems to miss this.
And that has no relevance.
He wants a TV with next generation video and no apps. There is no TV that has those two criteria.
“Preferably” doesn’t make it a hard requirement. All the words matter.