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For those looking for a modern TV that doesn't have the 'smart' feature set have a look into into commercial grade panels. They are manufactured for digital signage and usage in meeting room / corporate environments. Generally they will not come with a on-board tuner but for those who can stand free to air programming this can be added with an external tuner for < $100.

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Interesting idea. Any recommendations?

I liked the idea too so just looked around, the NECs seem particularly good, for example:

http://www.necdisplay.com/p/large--screen-displays/e464

A 46" display, for $769, 1080p and 3 x HDMI inputs and all of the necessary sound inputs and outputs. Additionally it's relatively low-power and doesn't actually look bad.

I can see me buying something like this in future, it fits with how I use TV anyway, feeding HDMI inputs into it and just considering it a display for other devices.

I like the commercial display idea as well. They probably could have saved some money by not bothering with a tuner, though. At least it isn't full of spy crap, and, being a commercial-grade display, ought to last a good long time.

I have one of NEC's 24" monitors (one of the few 1920x1200 panels I could find on the shelf at the time I bought it - 16:10 FTW), and I love it. Aside from my preferred 16:10, the other thing I love about it is that it's matte instead of glossy. Glossy monitors, along with chiclet keyboards, have got to go.

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