Hey guys, so I moved recently and started tipping my toes in self-hosting, currently managed to set up Pihole and Jellyfin.

I’m thinking of buying a TV to start enjoying all these cool services over my living room. The thing is, I’m pretty much an absolute beginner, and I’m not sure if there is something I should be aware of when buying a TV.

Since it is a fairly big spend, I would really hate to be locked out of it because of some greedy corporate garbage or something, especially since I would use it only for self-hosting, and I am aware TVs are particularly messy when it comes to this (never have bought one in my life). Could you guys help this lost kid?

  • DarraignTheSane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    2 years ago

    When it comes to Samsung, look at their “Pro” TVs, which are intended for businesses to use for digital signage. I’ve never had to deal with any of the very few smart features it has popping up or annoying me in any way.

    I’m no expert on picture quality but it looks damned good to me, and it’s supposedly built to run 24/7 and not burn out since as said it’s intended for digital signage.

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9G54G2X

    https://www.samsung.com/us/business/displays/pro-tv/explore/

  • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    I agree with everyone to not let the TV access the internet. Instead, get a raspberri pi or le potato or the like with LibreElec (or whatever the current successor OS is) running Kodi. Point it at a SMB share and bam.

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Vizio can remote into their TV’s and run diagnostics and remote factory resets. Made me feel very awkward and now I have to null route all their BS.

  • BustedPancake@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I don’t know if this applies to you or not, but if you are like me, and I believe around 10% of the population, stay away from PWM as it will give you big migraines. But that you can only know if you are sensitive to it by encountering one of those screens. If you own a pretty recent mobile phone with OLED or AMOLED, chances are they use PWM and if you are fine with them, you should be ok. But always best to make sure. They never really advertise this so if you can go to a physical store to see the screen or look around the internet before buying that helps.

  • TrustedTyrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I just use an Apple TV instead of the built in smart tv and it works well. If you care about hdr my advice would be to avoid Samsung since they refuse to support Dolby vision.

  • Mythic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 years ago

    I think only android tvs allow you to have the jellyfin app right on the TV. Samsung Tizen does not have jellyfin in the app store

  • numbers1492@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    2 years ago

    I’ve had no issues with my LG OLED. Picture quality is great and the UI doesn’t suck.

    With the newer LG TV’s there is a jellyfin all. Ignore the people that say don’t connect it to the internet you probably don’t care and would be annoyed you can’t use the features anyway. For things that don’t have an app through the TV you can also use the browser that’s built in.

    Be careful buying android tv boxes as they can be super sketchy way more so than name brand TV’s.

    Roku boxes also seem to have an app for jellyfin that has been pretty reliable.

    Edit: one annoying thing that seems comma among TV’s is that the ethernet is limited to 100mbps and you’ll get faster speeds through wifi.