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Here's a dumb 43 inch screen. It's sold as a gamer monitor. It's a UHD TV display with HDMI in and no onboard smarts.[1] Here's another Samsung dumb screen, at
by Animats 2y ago
Here's a dumb 43 inch screen. It's sold as a gamer monitor. It's a UHD TV display with HDMI in and no onboard smarts.[1]
Here's another Samsung dumb screen, at 55 inches.[2] This is supposed to be for digital signage, but it's really a UHD monitor with HDMI in. But the next size up has "Alexa built in".
Sceptre, which mostly supplies Walmart, has a whole line of dumb TVs, including some big ones.[3] They're a little company in City of Industry, CA, which seems to have found their niche in dumb TVs.
There are lots of "digital signage" displays available. They're usually very bright, reasonably rugged, OK for 24/7 operation, immune to burn-in (they may spend their whole working life displaying mostly the same fast food menu), but not that good
[1] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-m70d-43-led-4k-uhd-60hz-4ms-smart-monitor-with-hdr-10-hdmi-usb-black/6581675.p?skuId=6581675 https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-m70d-43-led-4k-uhd-60hz...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08651PB1J https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08651PB1J
[3] https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV/U750CV-UMRD-75-4K-UHD-TV-product1131category1category73.html https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV/U750CV-UMRD-75-4K-UHD-T...
- rpdillon 2y agoI raise Sceptre every time I see this sentiment, but folks just don't seem to know about them. I got a humble 54" 4k from them a couple of years back for a few hundred bucks. Used it every day since, works great. Zero bullshit. Slow startup, though. Can be like 10-15 seconds.
- 1_1xdev1 2y agoSceptre exists on paper but they’re almost always “sold out”
- int0x29 2y agoTheir monitors have the same startup time issue which is a pain if you need to access the boot menu.
- Uvix 2y agoSceptre's TVs don't seem to support 120 Hz or variable refresh rate yet, only their smaller monitors, so they're not a good fit for anybody with a current-generation video game console.
- aidenn0 2y agoLast time I tried to find a Sceptre, the only things in stock were models that were several years old, with features comparable to TVs that were even older.