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Old 01-22-2019, 03:31 AM
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Buy a cheap 2-3 year old used set that no longer receives updates and the apps no longer work? I don't even list "smart" TVs as "smart" anymore as by the time they come my way most of the apps don't work anymore and no updates are available.

The upside of this is many otherwise decent sets that are still working in every other respect are being discarded or sold cheaply.

Just make sure it isn't one of the models that always goes into the "smart" menu. I has a Soniq 50" set the other day that did that. Takes 15-30 secs to even startup as it's waiting for the android based interface to load - then there's no way to get the interface to go away without the remote - So it couldn't even be used as dumb monitor - Everything was just stuck in window with no easy way to kill the interface and just have full screen video.
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