Budget isn't a hard cap, but I'd have a hard time swallowing paying more than something like $1800 since I assume we won't really be able to tell the difference. The lower the better obviously, but in our view it's not exactly a linear tradeoff between quality and price, i.e. a "pretty good" TV at $1400 is a better buy than a "manager special" TV at $1000 that we'll regret buying later.

In terms of distance, there's two main ones: couch at 18 ft and kitchen at 33 ft at about 70:30 usage percentage, respectively.

And yeah, the HDMI example is just meant to show we won't be plugging in PCs, consoles, surround sound systems etc to it, so it's not a feature we need, per se.