Hi Terry, > We need a new TV for the bedroom.
‘Want’. :-) Goes against all the advice for sleeping well. Even a ‘on standby’ light can be detected through closed eyelids in a darkened room. > The ideal spec is for a Smart TV, but my wife has found that modern > TVs all come with AI built in an she is very suspicious of AI in all > its forms. Have you considered a computer monitor with a ‘fag packet’ PC, like a Pi 5, running media software, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreELEC https://tuneline.app/blog/raspberry-pi-5-media-player-setup-2026 has some interesting detail on the Pi 5 in particular. It points to streaming devices as an alternative, and says the Pi may be useful because you value open-source software. We have no smart TVs. We've an old Samsung TV still going strong. And computer monitors. We only got rid of a Toshiba CRT TV, a Which? best buy, which refused to go wrong over many years because it was cumbersome during a sequence of house moves. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2026-10-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:[email protected]
