It’s been my belief for a while now that there’s a market for premium dumb TVs. They would:
- Use high end best binned panels (lowest possible image retention for OLED, etc)
- Traditional LCD models would have very high standards for backlight consistency
- Do little to no image processing
- Be designed around being hooked up to external media boxes
- Have a nice modern OSD text
- Allow you to use your phone as a remote via Bluetooth (and control other media center components via IR cables and HDMI commands)
- Not have any means of internet connection or any other smart functionality whatsoever
Effectively, they’d be to TVs as studio monitor headphones are to audio. Enthusiasts would jump all over something like this despite inflated prices, I have no doubt.