TV Help
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I have Samsung as well..love them & have had excellent quality. I have the 65 .
I’ve had a Samsung for the last 10 years, and it’s been great. I’ve long since stopped being a tech nerd, and have no idea what the hell to get on a TV these days. I don’t game anymore, so it’s just streaming fishing shows, TV shows, movies, and the occasional football or basketball game. Is that TV overkill?
The 950's are really good TV's. One of the best LED panels out there, only Sony's Z series would be better. The X-Wide feature gives them outstanding picture quality off center axis viewing.
Not overkill in my book at all. If I was going to get an LED set, it's the one I would get.
Not overkill in my book at all. If I was going to get an LED set, it's the one I would get.
Ok, thanks. Would you get something else? I thought LED was the tits?
“If I was going to get an LED set,”
I’m not worried about sound. I usually have my TV sound all the way down with the sound being routed through my surround system.
Not sure about TV's but I upgraded my internet and Comcast cable service and while I was there, someone came in and asked for a 4K box. I asked for one also...now I get 4K when it's offered...sports on major networks and some Netflix are in 4K now. It does make a difference. If you don't have the ability to receive 4k data...it never really happened. And I added new service in Feb of last year...so the 4K box is pretty new.
OLED is a better picture, but there are a few potential risks associated with them. Similar to the "burn-in" issues that Plasma sets dealt with for years.
Same with yours truly; I used to tear those friggin specs apart within an inch of their friggin' lives to get what I thought was the "best" for the money. Now, in a practical sense, all sets are pretty much the same to me.
I've become a Samsung guy, and have no serious motivation to change. Like most, I used to think of Sony as the gold standard, but never bought the brand because I was unwiliing to pay their premium. I notice that Costco......where I tend to buy consumer electronics of this type these days......has begun to carry the line, which I frankly find a little surprising. I can only assume they're a little more in line with ther competitors from a price standpoint for comparable features/specs.
The next time I buy a TV, I'll do what I've been doing and simply stick with the major brands......Samsung, LG, now Sony, Toshiba, etc.....avoid the budget brands.....identify a baseline of features between competitors......then differentiate based on price. I admit that I might pay slightly more for Sony......maybe something on the order of 5-10%.......but certainly no more than that.
I wasn't aware of that; have their competitors (like QLED) avoided/fixed that problem, or is burn-in (in the manner you describe) an issue with all similarly upgraded picture technologies ???
Samsung's QLED is more akin to LED that Sony's OLED is. The way OLED's work makes them susceptible to burn-in, but Samsung's QLED is not.
One thing to keep in mind. When you see a TV advertised for cheap... it's a cheap TV. It's going to have issues with either Color, Contrast, Color Uniformity, Color Gamut, Motion Detection and Interpolation. For example; watching a movie with a dark night sky? See blotchy white tints across the screen? That's Uniformity, and there's no fixing it.
If I'm quoting someone TV's, I'm quoting them Samsung 8000 or better, or Sony 950 or better. Otherwise I recommend they pick up either a Vizio P Series or a TCL 5 Series. For some reason, when you get to the lower end price range with Sony and Samsung, they actually don't hold up as well as brands like Vizio and TCL.
I'm about to buy 2 cheap TV's for my basement probably 55" to 65", so I'm looking at either of those two brands.
She looks like a young female Vigo the Carpathian.He had a bit of a serial killer vibe with the tone of his voice.
