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This is a reason why you should buy a monitor with HDMI port and plug it to your own custom HTPC with open source OS and software.
I haven't bought a monitor / TV in probably 8 years but was recently thinking about it.... however really disliked that pretty much all TVs today are Smart TVs which actually made me wonder:
When selecting the monitor, what do you need to check when you want one that will work well for sports / soccer?
I think you should be fine if you never connect it to the internet. We're not at the stage where TVs have their own independent data connection (yet). Keep in mind that the TV might just store the analytics data indefinitely while waiting for internet.
Though you can still get dumb consumer TVs if you look hard enough, but I agree that they're becoming rarer.
LCD (NOT OLED) and high refresh rate. That is all you need to care about.
Essential extras would be anti glare (get a 3M film if glossy) and white balance. And go for a reliable QC brand (like LG, BenQ or Dell).
Very good, thanks!
I definitely would, but again, I don't own the TV nor do I normally watch it (I mostly watch videos on my Degoogled phone or Linux PC).
Do you know any good products for Europe?
Another possibility is to keep that TV and plug a RPi to the internet instead. I do that with a rpi4 running LibreElec and it's very nice :)
I live in India, so not probably. All I can tell is that a monitor may sound expensive, but it is colour accurate and made of very high grade materials compared to a subsidised consumer smart TV, and you can use that without any backdoor worries for a decade or two.