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Originally Posted by 1990C4S

I'm a TCL fan. Great TV and cheap. I love mine.

There don't really seem to be any available right now. Another budget brand that gets good reviews is Hisense.

It's interesting, about the Ads, the site https://www.rtings.com goes very deep into the performance of various TVs and even compares or allows comparison of various models. They list 2 things, Ads and "Suggested Content in Home"

Ads: Whether the TV's main interface has ads. This does take into account ads in third-party apps.
Suggested Content in Home: Whether suggested content appears on the TV's home menu or main menu. Suggested content can include recommended movies, TV shows, YouTube videos, etc.

Apparently, the HiSense H9F (competitor to Sony X900F) does not have Ads, and has suggested content in home that you can disable. And as Thom has advised, the Sony has ads that you're just stuck with, and has suggested content in home, but you can opt out of that. But in their review of the Hisense, they are careful to say that Ads could be added at any point, and that Sony has either added or increased Ads. I guess that's a way of subsidizing low TV margins for the manuf.


https://www.rtings.com/tv/tools/compare/sony-x900f-vs-hisense-h9f/585/908