This must be harder than I think it is, because no one is doing it.
Counter-intuitive though it might seem, it'll be cheaper per-unit to produce a TV with smart TV crap with a market of one million than it will be to make a basic TV with a market of ten thousand.
I would go even farther and say that (in longer term accounting) it will be much cheaper to produce a smart TV with 10,000 sales than a basic TV with 10,000 sales.
Or haven't we learned that the first thing a processor + network connectivity is used for is extracting marketable analytics?
Look up "Retail Digital Signage" and "Retail Video Displays" (and similar terms) - for instance:
http://www.planar.com/products/large-format-displays/ultrare...
These are all essentially large LCD displays (monitors) with little to no extra features (many will have the ability to load via wifi or usb graphics and animations to be rotated on the screen - it's advertising after all).
Your only other option would be large computer monitors, but because these tend to be meant for the desktop, you won't easily find sizes beyond 40 inches diagonal.
Note that for digital signage - you are going to pay more - a lot more (it's one of those cases of pay more, get less - because niche and "you're a business, you have money"); also note that some of these kinds of displays can be found at Business Costco stores (though maybe not the 4K+ units).
Another interesting thing about these units is that they have very small width bezels at the edges, for those cases where you want to tile them to make a video wall (again, retail advertising and menus and such).
Setup a new TV for a family member recently and the instructions basically wanted me to Bluetooth pair my phone to the TV so I could set it up. I was like you have to be $&@!ing kidding me. Power, volume, input select. Just give me 4 buttons and that's it and I'm happy.
Seems the 32 inch space prices are way too high.
Monitors are more expensive because the have to be more detailed in color reproduction, accuracy, etc.
Same reason we suffered with 27" monitors at 1080 for so long: because LG and the like were selling literal boatloads of 1080 panels to put in TVs. If you wanted something out of band like a 1440 panel, well, get your checkbook out.
Oh, and does that 4K TV do 60fps at 4K? (Honest question, I have no idea if they do or not. Though I would assume so.)
the tv market is one giant shit show designed to sell you all the crap falling from production lines.
i spent weeks looking at and testing tv sets. reading reviews. watching videos. in the end i returned everything and gave up.
That said, is this LG issue because it has smart stuff or because it lacks appropriate shielding? The article kind of hints that it's a lack shielding.
Now if some TV added a nice little shelf space, or mount point for an external box behind the TV - I would think that would be a selling feature.
You can just not activate/use the feature, but I find I keep tripping over the button on the remote.
The phone manufacturers need to create and push non-standard (and often broken) app launchers and branded skins in order to differentiate, otherwise they'd just be another Android phone maker, rather than, say, the manufacturer of the Samsung phone.
If I wanted a smart TV I'd attach a brain to the VESA bracket on the back.
On the upside, LG refunded me the whole purchase price of the Nexus 5x that broke. So props to that.