Wow!
Thank you for the effort, man!
'Literally no difference in sound quality' using losslesly compressed flac files and comparing with a mighty Oppo sounds very impressive and is music for my ears with my dilemma resolved. Although, I was expecting nothing less
I just came back from a whole afternoon of checking TV's with USB stick in my pocket. Since I also have 2TB of documentaries and films (including family photos and videos), complete video codec support is extremely important to me.
If I can help anyone who is interested, I can confirm the following:
2020 Samsung TU series can not read some avi formats, and 3gp family phone videos have no voice (Tizen OS);
2020 Philips 7555 and 7855 and series can not read some divx files (Saphi OS);
2020 Philips 8505, reads every file format you can throw at it, video or audio, and also showed the cover art when playing music, including flac (Android OS);
Sony I didn't check, it is min 30% more expensive than any other brand for the same features;
LG I will check tomorrow. Pp
This is my last post on this subject. Thank you once again for taking your time and actually making an effort. Stay well, and enjoy the music!