I hear you but I still think it should be reasonable to buy a random product from the store and not have it actively try to poison you, set your home on fire or spy on you. And yeah, I'm so entitled as to expect this without having to carefully follow news about companies that do these things.
I think the law already did a decent job on poison & fire, so maybe there is hope for the privacy too.
What do you consider good? Even bottom barrel TVs today have good picture quality, so I look at big brands (Samsung/Sony/Vizio/LG/etc...) and buy whatever one doesn't have 'smarts'. Admittedly, I stay way behind the TV technology curve though. I might get 4k when my current TV breaks years from now.
Currently I have a Samsung and 2 LGs in the house.
I absolutely love that media interfaces are getting snappy again (e.g., no more hitting a button on the remote and waiting 4 seconds to it do finish opening a menu).
TCL might be the best option since they’re running a Roku OS. I just picked up an LG B7A (great time of year to buy 2017 TVs on markdown) and it’s great but the advertising crap was a minefield.
panasonic has a good middle ground on quality (hardly hear about bad panels, dead pixel, different from LG), new tech (only brand to have plasma and oled early on), and price.
if you still buy sony products, I can't be sory for you.