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My 13 year old TV is starting to kick the bucket and I ain't gonna get one of those smart TVs that's just gonna spy on me and age like milk.

My 13 year old TV is starting to kick the bucket and I ain't gonna get one of those smart TVs that's just gonna spy on me and age like milk.

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In another post, you mentioned your wife needing to pick up local on air broadcast?

You arent going to do that with a monitor and PC easily. Moving you firmly back into TV range. if that is a real consideration.

Then however, all you are going to get is shit that spys upon you. It is the standard, they do not get made without really. Many will work without internet connections, but lose most of the "features" and some set of those will complain at you, visibly on the screen at inconvenient times that its internet connection isnt working...

I have seen newer televisions that needed an internet connection to work though. Army buddy, just bought a new one, to get all the initial setup done, he had to provide it a wireless connection. He doesnt care, I was dumbfounded. I believe it was one of those high end LG models.

Research carefully.

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You can get an antenna with an HDMI output. Works just as good on a dumb monitor as a TV.

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Nice I wasnt aware of these. Do they include the tuner logic to provide an image to the monitor? No tuner style circuitry on the monitor to select from the signals.

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Yep, just get one that comes with a converter box. It's another remote to deal with, but not the end of the world.

I haven't purchased in years, but I've got one somewhere. It was pretty low tech, didn't need internet or anything.