Mastodawn

Reading that account/login will be necessary on some new TV's... to access full functionality of the unit.

Ummm. I guess that the % of missing functionality will be dictate to me the base price of the unit.

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We don't need a new TV yet - but methinks it is going to get harder to buy something that is not corrupted with crap.

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The only features I want are power and hdmi port selection

Yes. I run mine with a mini-NUC style PC. Will likely be converting that to Linux by end of year.

I just want my next TV to be a large monitor. I won't need over the air, or anything more than 2 or 3 HDMI (computer, DVD/BR) pretty much that's it.

I dread actually getting further into research mode... trying to weed out all the crap and between the lines meaning of things.

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I feel like WOPR should be asking:

Do you want to read a good book?
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