I think most of the smart TVs are pretty scary in that regard. If/when we eventually upgrade, I'll be locking down our firewall for traffic sourced from the TV.

What's almost as bad is that most smart TVs have ads and "suggested content." WTF? I think there are a couple of TVs that you have the ability to turn that stuff off, but not most of them, and I think that includes some of the bigger brands.

I also bought a TCL Tv from Costco. 65 inch Just amazing for the money. I read the reviews, it has some of the best blacks . But the truth is LG and Sony Oled tv’s are the best in the world. Nothing else even comes close. But expensive. My wonder TCL 6th series was $500 at Costco. And they give extra warranty.

5 best TCL TVs you can buy in 2021 https://www.techradar.com/best/tcl-tv

"There are few TV brands operating today that offer value quite like TCL.
The Chinese electronics maker has quickly become one of
the biggest presences in the nation’s TV market, and... "

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Not many other options, are there? China, Korea (not much better) and Japan (is anything still made there?) are the main options. Is there anything else?

And even if they have something that says "made in Malaysia" or Mexico or Taiwan (that one should have been in my first list) my bet is that many/most of the parts come from China and are then assembled in the other locations.

THis article is interesting, it looks like the HiSense brand is making TVs for a lot of the other big TV groups.
https://www.consumerreports.org/tvs/tv-brands-arent-always-what-they-seem/

Yummy!

Since we have a HTPC on our TV we never connected the TV to the network. No issues with any of that! :)

My Projector: White Box sitting on table just below screen. Screen is 100", room is 16x15

Daytime - not as bright as evening but very decent (also next to 15' wide picture window):
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Evening - Crystal Clear
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Those vertical projector are pretty wicked!

Yea, that projector is a very cool set up. Brand/model?

We have a 65" LG OLED C9? it's the mid range one. It's a couple of years old now. We bought it for the last season of GoT, and we are still blown away by the picture quality. We sometimes wish we had gotten something in the 75"+ range since it sits on a big wall, but after we watch movies on a friend's Samsung Qled we immediately know we made the right decision.

Tom, long time no post! It's good to see that you're still occasionally around. This must be one of your quarterly posts. :D

I've recently bought (2019) two Vizio TVs. The picture quality to me was better than LG, the same as Samsung, not as good as Sony. The deciding factor was the interface. It was the most intuitive to use for me, and the native Netflix, Youtube, and Prime Video apps were easiest to use.

If using an external device, the Apple TV is really slick (and I'm not an apple fanboy). voice search is WAY faster than trying to type with a D-pad

The brand is VAVA 4K Ultra Short Throw Projector, I've been very happy with it. It has a smart TV function but is limited as it gets YouTube but not Netflix so I stream Netflix thru my DVD. It gets lots o other stream services but I don't have subscriptions. I am goin to hook up Apple TV soon. For some reason, there are no Ads on YouTube so I really like it on this TV - I wish I could figure out how to get that app on my computer.

This projector can project up to 150" so I bought an additional 150" outdoor screen which I can use for outdoor movie nights. Haven't used it yet (covid ruined the year) but this summer will see some use.

I bought the 75" Samsung QLED a couple of years ago from Costco.
Chose it for the high refresh rate to watch sports. Now I stream sports and the feed sucks so the high refresh rate doesn't work.
It's an 8000 series and you can only order it online. In-store is the cheaper models.
Very happy with it.