[andrewla]

I have a 56" Panasonic plasma TV of the same vintage. It's great -- dumb as hell and displays images and turns on right away (not as fast as an old CRT, but compared to a modern TV fuggetaboutit). Its internal input switching is janky so I bought an external HDMI switch and I couldn't be happier with the setup.

It's mounted on a wall and weighs a ton. Every time I think of upgrading I see the mess of software that they shove on a TV and it's horrifying. I would love to see a dumb TV but I think the best I can do is to have a smart TV that I don't connect to the network, lock on to HDMI1 and never touch the TV remote ever again.