In the market for a TV

Beezerk said:
Quick question.
For us mere mortals who just have Sky HD, is it worth spending big bucks on a top line tv?
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Can be worth it, for the superior motion handling, contrast, HDR, upscaling, etc. It also depends on what size TV you mean as HD v UHD on a relatively small TV, say 42-50”, won’t be a large difference, as compared to when you have bigger TVs, especially 65” plus. To a trained eye, they can pick out a top TV versus a budget one quite easily.
 
Piece said:
Can be worth it, for the superior motion handling, contrast, HDR, upscaling, etc. It also depends on what size TV you mean as HD v UHD on a relatively small TV, say 42-50”, won’t be a large difference, as compared to when you have bigger TVs, especially 65” plus. To a trained eye, they can pick out a top TV versus a budget one quite easily.
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I think I’ve convinced my wife that a 55” won’t be too dominating in our room - but that’s as big as it’ll get. She wants to have a TV in our room not a TV room. As far as she is concerned TVs are not stylish decor wise. Anyway. Fingers crossed. And I think she may release funds for a LG OLED.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
I think I’ve convinced my wife that a 55” won’t be too dominating in our room - but that’s as big as it’ll get. She wants to have a TV in our room not a TV room. As far as she is concerned TVs are not stylish decor wise. Anyway. Fingers crossed. And I think she may release funds for a LG OLED.
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If your wife is concerned about the TV spoiling the look of the room, have you considered the Samsung Frame TV? It looks like a picture frame, you mount it on the wall and can display whatever artwork you wish when not being used as a TV. I think they are QLED rather than OLED, though.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
I think I’ve convinced my wife that a 55” won’t be too dominating in our room - but that’s as big as it’ll get. She wants to have a TV in our room not a TV room. As far as she is concerned TVs are not stylish decor wise. Anyway. Fingers crossed. And I think she may release funds for a LG OLED.
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Just think hi-fi separates Hugh. Unless you’re madly hooked on minute gains at the top end, there’s no need to spend thousands.

And even with upscaling, if the input is low end you’ll not see huge benefits. We’ve got a LG 55” 4K UHD, bought 7 yrs ago. Regular channels are decent but if I tune in to a 4K Netflix film/series - wow!
 
Beezerk said:
Quick question.
For us mere mortals who just have Sky HD, is it worth spending big bucks on a top line tv?
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I have a Panasonic TX-65JZ2000B, which is 65 inches of 4k OLED.
The picture is truly amazing, but theres no way I will watch anything less than HD as the picture is way to poor on a screen that big. 4k pictures (either though iplayer or the 4k BluRay player)_ are out of this world though.:)
When we first got it, the wife said it was too big for the room, now she wouldnt go back to a smaller screen.
 
Jimaroid said:
You wrote "The software used to enhance the image" and this is incorrect in many ways. What you're seeing are differences in the creative, cost and design choices of components in the mainboard hardware for video and graphics rendering. All the signal demultiplexing, video transcode, picture profile transformations, scaling and picture presentation to display is done in hardware. There are many CPU/GPU systems-on-chip with various types of FPGA for signal processing to do this. The CPU and application software generally just manages the OS for user interface and sets up the data pipelines in memory for the graphics and video hardware to consume and display respectively. The software of a TV doesn't do video processing because it is too labour intensive to do in realtime, and would be daft when it's more efficient to use the custom hardware designed for exactly that purpose.

General code execution exists in the form of what can be programmed in GPUs and FPGAs, but these are generally just a pipeline of fixed function transforms, ranging from things like simply mapping colour profiles, to things like resolution scaling and, eurgh, motion smoothing.

Of course there are many quality differences in software between manufacturers, but what makes things look different in Currys is much more about creative and cost choices in the hardware and how they're marketed.
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This simply put is not how a TV today works. The entire difference between one TV and another boils down to what you dismiss as "General code execution exists in the form of what can be programmed in GPUs and FPGAs, but these are generally just a pipeline of fixed function transforms, ranging from things like simply mapping colour profiles, to things like resolution scaling and, eurgh, motion smoothing." The individual components, of which the panel is one, are broadly interchangable. As I said EVERY OLED TV on sale today has an LG panel. For LCD it's a bit more diverse but mostly TCL and Samsung

If you have an iphone the screen is from LG, the camera sensor and battery from Sony and the whole this is put together by Foxcon. But nobody calls it an LG, Sony or Foxcon phone. Cause of the software it's an iphone.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
I think I’ve convinced my wife that a 55” won’t be too dominating in our room - but that’s as big as it’ll get. She wants to have a TV in our room not a TV room. As far as she is concerned TVs are not stylish decor wise. Anyway. Fingers crossed. And I think she may release funds for a LG OLED.
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I don't know anybody that regrets buying a TV cause it's too big. Know loads that think they should have bought a bigger one.
 
Tashyboy said:
Bumping this thread as am not sure if there’s a tv thread.

But thoughts on this TV appreciated please folks.


PS, you can get it for £899 at a few places.
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This will help => https://www.techradar.com/reviews/lg-cs-65-inch-oled-tv-review

The CS is effectively using the B2 panel, which is 20% dimmer than the step-up C2. In all, looks a tasty TV.
 
Hobbit said:
Just think hi-fi separates Hugh. Unless you’re madly hooked on minute gains at the top end, there’s no need to spend thousands.

And even with upscaling, if the input is low end you’ll not see huge benefits. We’ve got a LG 55” 4K UHD, bought 7 yrs ago. Regular channels are decent but if I tune in to a 4K Netflix film/series - wow!
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We ended up buying an LG 55” 4K UHD C1 and yes, normal HD channels are very decent but 4K stuff on Netflix is wow! level noticeably special - and 55” is the perfect size for the space and wall it’s mounted on.
 
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Slightly different query. We're looking to replace the current Sony Bravia 43 inch. The new one could be slightly bigger but doesn't have to be, and have a reasonable picture quality but high end 'wow' isn't necessary. But which TVs come already loaded with the best range of Apps - including Freeview. Alternatively, how do I access the best range of apps? Main reason is a) we're sick of Virgin, and b) fed up with casting stuff from the tablet/computer.
 
backwoodsman said:
Slightly different query. We're looking to replace the current Sony Bravia 43 inch. The new one could be slightly bigger but doesn't have to be, and have a reasonable picture quality but high end 'wow' isn't necessary. But which TVs come already loaded with the best range of Apps - including Freeview. Alternatively, how do I access the best range of apps? Main reason is a) we're sick of Virgin, and b) fed up with casting stuff from the tablet/computer.
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When I was looking at the tellys yesterday, Curry’s which were reasonable for prices lets you do a comparison re tellys. It shows on there what apps are loaded.
quote off the site “LG’s webOS gives you easy access to all your must-have apps”
Plus,
Catch up TV: BBC iPlayer, ITVX, Channel 4, My5, UKTV
- Streaming: Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Disney+, Google Play, Netflix, NOW TV, YouTube
- Music: Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Spotify
- App store: LG Content Store.
I was looking at Three LG Oleds on their site, basically the C1, C2 and C3 to do a comparison.
Bottom line I kinda got to thinking that LG tellys are like Ping Clubs. They have never made a bad one, it’s just the new ones are slightly better. So it boils down to how much is coming out of your pocket, re do you want the latest Clubs/telly or last years. 🤔👍
 
backwoodsman said:
Slightly different query. We're looking to replace the current Sony Bravia 43 inch. The new one could be slightly bigger but doesn't have to be, and have a reasonable picture quality but high end 'wow' isn't necessary. But which TVs come already loaded with the best range of Apps - including Freeview. Alternatively, how do I access the best range of apps? Main reason is a) we're sick of Virgin, and b) fed up with casting stuff from the tablet/computer.
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Chromecast or fire stick, I prefer Chromecast as it's pure android.
 
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