Need To Upgrade TV

Tvs tend to be priced best around black Friday in my experience.

There's lots of good panels these days, but brightness is one of those things that's a "get what you pay for" proposition.

Smart Tvs are a waste IMO, within a few years the softwares running on them get slow or outdated. Especially LG in my experience. I wish I could get just a display, no smart junk, and then use my roku or Google TV for everything else. They're cheap enough that it doesn't break the bank to replace them if they fail.

Best bet is probably to go and check out a bunch of Tvs in person and pick the most you can afford. The things that seem to fail most at either power supplies, or the sound. Having any type of external sound system is necessary, IMO, and gets around the internal sound failure issue in many cases. Power supply issues are tougher, but online reviews tend to highlight models with issues.