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You can't really buy a big monitor, just buy a TV and don't use it as a TV.
If you're using an AV receiver then you can ignore sound (generally the flatter the crapper speakers) and that will also deal with switching all your inputs. Plug everything into the AV receiver and one cable goes from the receiver to the TV.
Most out of the box colour profiles are set up for brightly lit shops so are a bit crap. You can either set them up yourself, google to find a decent one or some have some decent ones hidden away (the THX profile on mine is decent for instance).
Panasonic are a decent brand. 4k is a bit unnecessary at the moment but it doesn't necessarily cost that much extra and it does seem to be getting more popular. It wouldn't be a make or break but it's a nice bonus.
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I've never owned a television.
Am thinking of getting one to watch films on. I'd prefer a projector and sound system but there isn't enough wall space and I don't want to have to use a projector screen (either one on a stand that I have to store somewhere and set up, nor do I want to install a pull-down into our flimsy ceiling - nor do I want to look at a pull down for that matter). Next house I'll make sure we have a single big fuck-off white wall, perfectly plastered, to project on.
But for now it'll be a television.
Or does it? It needs to be able to connect to a BluRay player/Apple TV/games console etc, maybe an AV receiver/amp/cd changer etc. Is that a television? Or a just a big computer monitor? We don't have a TV aerial if that makes a difference (though do have a little Virgin wall box with some fibre outputs so presume Virgin would be the supplier of any TV service OR we would use something like NowTV which I understand receives signal from wifi). I would like to connect it to a decent speaker system in due time so presume it needs a particular set of audio-out ports (or are they much of a muchness?)
Lastly it has to be thin. I'd like it wall mounted on a chimney breast and don't want it to jut out further than a few of inches including any mount.
Any brands to look for/things to know? Any times of year / places to buy from? Surely 4K content still isn't there yet to make justifying a 4K screen worth it (have a 5k screen for video editing so there would have to be a lot of broadcast 4k footage to consider it). So presume 1080p. Don't want to use these horrible picture profiles that give horrible movement effects. Don't want 3D abilities. Just a nice screen to watch films on and play games etc. Image quality/colour reproduction fairly important but I mean that in terms of accuracy to original (like THX was for cinema standards) rather than these horrible hyper-saturation images I see in TV displays at Currys etc.
Hit me.