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.

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[–] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The Dell P5524Q is a 55" conference room monitor. It has no built-in wifi, microphones, camera, or other smart tv bullshit, it's just a big monitor. It just turns on when you turn it on and turns off when you turn it off - it doesn't take 5 minutes to boot up because of the shitty low-grade computer hardware built into it. You can find them on eBay in the US$900 range.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    900 for a 55 in TV seems really high doesn't it?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Almost 2 decades ago I paid close to that for a 50" plasma TV as one of my first big purchases after I got my first job.

    Of course this isn't a direct 1:1 comparison, they're different display technologies, TVs these days have a 4k if not 8k resolution when that one I bought was 720p, there's been almost 20 years of advancement driving costs down, and 20 years of inflation driving them up, etc.

    So I don't even know where to begin trying to fairly compare the relative costs of those 2 TVs

    But back then tv manufacturers also weren't getting paid to include apps, and put a button on their remotes to launch Amazon prime, or show me ads, or anything of the sort. Their only revenue stream was me buying the tv.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Well you can get a smart TV of that size for $300 or less. Which you can always just not hook up to the Internet, still have to deal with a crappy operating system but I don't think that's worth $600 to avoid really. Also elsewhere in this thread there's a link to a Samsung non-smart TV of that size for 600 so I really think 900 is too much.

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