Someone at heise seems to need a new TV set – they’re examining those since a while, for instance here or here (both links are behind paywalls; sorry).
To sum it up: in the first of these articles, they compared lower-cost OLED against LCD TVs, and the most positive remarks were made about LG’s cost-effective “B5” series.
The latter article seemed to favour Japanese makers like Panasonic and Sony, as most other media both in Germany and in the UK say as well. Panasonic uses LG panels, while Sony has Samsung, and the first comes with Amazon’s “Fire”, and the latter with Google’s software. LG and Samsung have their own software, and for/against all of these “smart” TVs, you’ll need a filter list in your Pi-Hole (or not connect them to the internet at all if you want to avoid being spied upon).
Luckily, our own Panasonic LCD from about 2013 is still a good one – while the on-device “apps” more or less stopped working (due to not enough CPU power and/or memory I guess), its picture is still really good – better than a low-cost LG LCD TV we bought for our dad in my opinion. And even if the original remote control has long given up most of its keys, and the TV sometimes reboots without any apparent reason, we’re still happy with it. A newer one wouldn’t improve the programs, and ours is still too good to use it as a bigger monitor in the kid’s dorm or so (athough it would be awesome together with some kind of home trainer or so) 😉
My sister lately bought LG’s mid-tier “C5” series, which is probably what most people would be really happy with. Haven’t asked her tho what was wrong with her older one (also LG), which looked nice to me on our last visit to hers.
Anyway, and as always – thanks for reading.