Yup. The LGs are easy to keep dumb enough.
Just need to fiddle in some menus to disable overscan and whatever magic TV filters are trendy.
You can use video game mode to disable additional video processing, which also lag time (incoming data to display in screen).
no power on ad either? i use our smart tv the same way, as a huge computer monitor via hdmi. then i run kodi on a laptop as a media center. works fine, and the only irritation is an annoying ad every time the device gets switched on. fortunately it's just an ad about a tv, and probably because of no internet, it's always the same ad too.
Re:What is the best dumb TV?
by daniellarusso on Saturday October 03, 2020 @08:51AM
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That would infuriate me.
no power on ad either? i use our tv the same way, as a huge computer monitor via hdmi. then i run kodi on a laptop as a media center
LG's TVs are pretty bad as TVs outside of their OLEDs. IPS panels are good for computer monitors where you want color accuracy, fast pixel refresh rates, and good viewing angles, but are terrible for TVs because of their low contrast ratio.
Just don't give them access to the internet and they'll do the job of displaying anything you give them via a HDMI port. Integrates nicely with home automation with an API too.
Oh, and they don't have ads in the menus like Samsung does.