He got double doubled.

Actually he got a good deal. Those screens are more expensive because they don't come bundled with ad riddled toiletware, and they often have a longer lifespan to accomodate being on for so long every day. Depends on how much it got used already though.

Yeah I wouldn't mind being "scammed" with a commercial display.
- Do these normally come with speakers?
Locally every mom and pop shop with digital menus are all basic televisions. Only chains like Burger King would have proper digital signage.

That said I think this is a commercial digital display with that brandless bezel.

I'd love one too!!
Yeah, as long as you don't mind a refresh rate of 5 frames a second....
- Unless it's a very weird special order display it's probably still 60hz, that way the transitions between menu screens and animations look smooth.

I never thought I'd see the day where people were confused by how to use a TV without the smart features.

Have you forgotten about VCRs? No one knew how to set them up properly and they only had 2 coax jacks.
- I set up a vcr when I was 8.
- What do you mean I put red in red and yellow in yellow, is just too confusing I already plugged in the power how much more complicated does it need to be.
  
  I miss my radio
- And every time you went to someone's house their VCR was blinking '12:00'.
- I knew. I knew.
  
  Then again as a Maiar I do have a bit of a leg up.

So…. Remove the usb stick?

Are they actually just TVs with a USB stick? I thought I read about another restaurant TV and they were super stripped down, and designed towards displays and not to use like a TV.
- What does that even mean though? All my TVs are driven by Roku or FireSticks. All I use is “the display”. What is missing as a TV that you would want these days? Are people somewhere still trying to receive channels?
  
  This is obviously in Canada. Even if you are paying for cable, they are giving you a PVR or set-top box and the “TV” is just a monitor. I cannot think of a provider in Canada where you would need a tuner in your display.

That would be just a monitor, wouldn't it? I thought most of these were just monitors with devices vesa mounted on the back...

Some of them are more like a giant, non-touch-screen tablets than monitors.

This probably just has this image saved into memory, and they can easily make it display something else.
- Is the image burning into the screen not a concern on these though?
- Easily?
Anyway to fix that to become a tv? I once bought a tv that had at one time been used for this purpose. Once it was unplug from the device storing the info it just became a flat tv.
- I helped a friend hook one of these up to an old Linux machine. Super easy to do. Just uses it to watch Netflix or YouTube
- What’s there to fix? Just hook up a video input and you’re golden.
- Could you maybe just connect a cheap android box and use it like that?
A lot of the newer commercial displays have signage players built into them. The content is probably cached locally.
- I've seen Intel NUCs hanging from the backs of signage displays in Macca's when I lived in Melbourne. I guess pushing updates to the menus would be easier. My company used Raspberry Pis in our showrooms - admittedly it was implemented horribly. They all used SD cards which ended up failing due to write wear.
  
  Interesting about the new models, would be keen to get my hands on one 😅
That would be just a monitor, wouldn't it?

No. The distinguishing feature between a monitor and a TV is that a TV has a tuner built into it.

There are other things like the variety of inputs and screen position settings on monitors, but those are mostly minor.
- Who uses a tuner these days? Modern TV signal is just via Ethernet, and if you call that a tuner then my phone is a modem

How much you want to bet this is photoshpped by someone who listens to Darknet Diaries?

What does this mean? I'm aware of the podcast but only heard an ep or two.
- There's an episode intro where his dad goes to Mexico and buys some sketch TV from some guys, but when he gets home its a KFC menu
- A story like this was told in one of the intros.

Meh, cheap Roku stick or equivalent and it'll be fine.