TV Purchase help
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Last 2 TVs have both been LG, both still going great.
My current main is a 55 inch, must be about 4 years old
If I was to replace it now if aim for a 60-65 inch, 4K etc
I wouldn't bother with too many smart tv features, they are generally clunky as fuck. That's what you have Apple TV etc for
As long as it has built in wifi a big fucken screen, kick ass picture. I'm happy -
Yes agree. Buy a TV for a TV. All the smart tv stuff, you should generally have anyway via apple tv or equivalents.
I've got an LG at the moment, and love it. Although the analyst at work told me last week that LG is tier 2 when it comes to panels, with Samsung being tier 1. That surprised me.
I'd say 90% of HK supply is Samsung or LG. Barely see Japanese models anymore.
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The shape of our TV viewing area dictated a smaller TV, so we went for a 60" Samsung UHD 4K thing. Not the curved one which was another 25% Any closer and it would be like IMAX.
Cabled into my home network. Apps for Netflix and Spotify etc.
Picture is excellent. For such a large screen, the magic is in the upscaling.
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Samsung are great imo. Avoid the curved tellies as that just seems gimicky to me. Good advice already re 4K+. Great to have the capability but sweet F all content being made/released with that level of resolution.
Fully agree with cables too. oh and if you are doing any wiring and use a receiver to run things through. Make sure you do HDMI in and out so you can send sound from your tv back to your sound system. You never know when you might want to use the smart tv features or plug/connect something direct to your tv.
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I actually quite like the smart TV stuff, which looks great on Sony. Unfortunately I didn't do my research properly and ended up with the Opera TV version rather than the Google TV, but still, like it much better going straight from the TV to Netflix/Plex/Amazon than having to switch over to my phone or another remote to control what's on.
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@Bones said in TV Purchase help:
I actually quite like the smart TV stuff, which looks great on Sony. Unfortunately I didn't do my research properly and ended up with the Opera TV version rather than the Google TV, but still, like it much better going straight from the TV to Netflix/Plex/Amazon than having to switch over to my phone or another remote to control what's on.
We tend to use AppleTV for movie purchases, unless there is better value on Google Play (via ChromeCast) but the built-in apps are quite good for the Sony TVs we have. The Samsung one is a bit older so its a bit crap - designed to work with Samsung Phones and that whole Samsung Store/TouchWiz OS
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Lots of hdmi inputs, the more the better. You will be surprised at the number of TVs that only offer 2 or some shitty amount.
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You don't need a smart TV, get one these instead:
https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/WKSASU71288/Asus-VivoStick-TS10-B015D-Z8350---2GB-DDR3L---32GBIt's a small Win10 computer you can plug into an HDMI port. Smart TV's don't come with all apps to all sources, with a computer you can access everything. Good article re this stuff: http://www.howtogeek.com/200557/why-you-should-connect-a-pc-to-your-tv-dont-worry-its-easy/
Pair it with one of these keyboards: http://www.logitech.com/en-nz/product/wireless-touch-keyboard-k400-plus
Access facebook, emails, websites, Youtube, install MS Office etc easily. Plug in a flash drive or portable Hard drive and watch videos or your photos, network it with other PCs if you want.
I've done this and love it!
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@Virgil said in TV Purchase help:
Lots of hdmi inputs, the more the better. You will be surprised at the number of TVs that only offer 2 or some shitty amount.
I've only got 2, but why would I need more? One for sky, one for Xbox, no others needed.
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@Bones said in TV Purchase help:
@Virgil said in TV Purchase help:
Lots of hdmi inputs, the more the better. You will be surprised at the number of TVs that only offer 2 or some shitty amount.
I've only got 2, but why would I need more? One for sky, one for Xbox, no others needed.
What about the PS4, Apple TV, PS3, XBox One..
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It depends what you use your TV for. Mine has 4 HDMI inputs but I only use the TV as a display. Sky and the Blu-ray player are connected to the AVR, which is connected to the TV. I can access the internet via the blu-ray player. Apple TV is connected to the TV as my AVR doesn't have enough HDMI inputs.
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So we whipped in on Friday night to pick up a TV about 30 mins before Harvey Norman shut so easy to get advice.
Picked up a TV that had HDR and I think it is LED? or maybe LCD. Looks fantastic though and am glad true-love was involved as she asks and asks and asks different questions.
Thing is though as being the last customer of the night they try and push the sale through so you can really get heaps of add ons for next to nothing.
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@NTA said in TV Purchase help:
LED - much more efficient on the juice than Plasma and even slightly better than LCD, with a higher picture quality than the latter.
First LED I had was a little uncanny tho - the people on screen looked too real.
I'm not worried about the juice it takes to run as we have plenty of river thingies turning wheels to give us some Zappy stuff in our houses
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@Hooroo said in TV Purchase help:
@NTA said in TV Purchase help:
LED - much more efficient on the juice than Plasma and even slightly better than LCD, with a higher picture quality than the latter.
First LED I had was a little uncanny tho - the people on screen looked too real.
I'm not worried about the juice it takes to run as we have plenty of river thingies turning wheels to give us some Zappy stuff in our houses
Enough of the scientific mumbo-jumbo, Hooroo! Give it to us in layman's terms!
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@Hooroo said in TV Purchase help:
I'm not worried about the juice it takes to run as we have plenty of river thingies turning wheels to give us some Zappy stuff in our houses
Also the heat factor - mother-in-law has a plasma (now about 10 years old?) and it makes the room a couple of degrees hotter.
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@NTA can you also smell brimstone at your MIL's? just wondered if it might be something other than the tv...
Can't recall if you've mentioned if the MIL is a GC or not ha ha
But yeah the plasma's crank the heat aye, plus they get noisy after a while.
One thing for note if you guys are using a receiver or similar to feed sky through to your tv. When we did our reno work we had some issues with sky. Got their techs over and it was explained that the sky signal has a low power current running through the cable so you need particular connections/plugs etc.
Apparently the sky box software and signal doesn't always play nice with receiver technology/software, and that causes quite a few tech call outs when the sky side of things is actually working fine. The tech said it's the receiver software that's dated or causing issues, especially if it's trying to scale or boost/tweak the signal.
His advice if you ever run into ongoing signal issues was to plug the box directly into your tv to see if that changed things. If it does chances are some sort of interference with whatever you route your signal through.
I reckon that's a good rationale for the pc media hub approach versus a receiver or sound system hub.
