A little off topic, but what possibilities are there to rip out the guts of a "smart tv" and just use the display as a dump monitor? I love my Samsung display for its visuals, but the OS is terrible.
According to this review from a few years ago, some are quite decent (and have a little bit of "smart", as in an integrated media player): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24877363
(Original link has disappeared, the Internet Archive is your friend.)