Hey guys, so I moved recently and started tipping my toes in self-hosting, currently managed to set up Pihole and Jellyfin.
I’m thinking of buying a TV to start enjoying all these cool services over my living room. The thing is, I’m pretty much an absolute beginner, and I’m not sure if there is something I should be aware of when buying a TV.
Since it is a fairly big spend, I would really hate to be locked out of it because of some greedy corporate garbage or something, especially since I would use it only for self-hosting, and I am aware TVs are particularly messy when it comes to this (never have bought one in my life). Could you guys help this lost kid?
I’ve had no issues with my LG OLED. Picture quality is great and the UI doesn’t suck.
With the newer LG TV’s there is a jellyfin all. Ignore the people that say don’t connect it to the internet you probably don’t care and would be annoyed you can’t use the features anyway. For things that don’t have an app through the TV you can also use the browser that’s built in.
Be careful buying android tv boxes as they can be super sketchy way more so than name brand TV’s.
Roku boxes also seem to have an app for jellyfin that has been pretty reliable.
Edit: one annoying thing that seems comma among TV’s is that the ethernet is limited to 100mbps and you’ll get faster speeds through wifi.
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I’ve had no issues with my LG OLED. Picture quality is great and the UI doesn’t suck.
With the newer LG TV’s there is a jellyfin all. Ignore the people that say don’t connect it to the internet you probably don’t care and would be annoyed you can’t use the features anyway. For things that don’t have an app through the TV you can also use the browser that’s built in.
Be careful buying android tv boxes as they can be super sketchy way more so than name brand TV’s.
Roku boxes also seem to have an app for jellyfin that has been pretty reliable.
Edit: one annoying thing that seems comma among TV’s is that the ethernet is limited to 100mbps and you’ll get faster speeds through wifi.