Dumb question - How does one go about (cost effectively) getting just a monitor that has:
* Same size/resolution range as the comparable TV
* Same price range as the comparable TV
* X display ports (combination of hdmi, usb, etc)
* Wifi (and bluetooth too?)
* Audio + ports
* Fine infra-red too for remotes
* Other absoulute hardware essentials i might have missed
Absolutely no inbuilt players or software or bloatware or adware or any of that crap! May be an app (inbuilt or for the phone) to configure presets perhaps.
The magic words you are looking for here is 'commercial display' and it will always cost more than a comparable sized TV -- smaller volume of production & sales and the manufacturer is forgoing the revenue stream all of that adware and crapware on the standard TV offers them. It may have audio ports but is unlikely to have more than toy speakers because a commercial installation knows to keep the audio and video separated.
tl;dr you can get something close to what you want but you are going to pay 2X or more for the unit compared to a similarly sized TV.
Yes it was a pretty rhetorical q. Why should a dumb display cost more? Are they really subsidizing a "smart tv" with all their bloat/crap ware? Does that even make economic sense?
* Same size/resolution range as the comparable TV
* Same price range as the comparable TV
* X display ports (combination of hdmi, usb, etc)
* Wifi (and bluetooth too?)
* Audio + ports
* Fine infra-red too for remotes
* Other absoulute hardware essentials i might have missed
Absolutely no inbuilt players or software or bloatware or adware or any of that crap! May be an app (inbuilt or for the phone) to configure presets perhaps.