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May 15, 2017 10:50:28 GMT
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May 15, 2017 11:13:50 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 11:13:50 GMT
You say a soundbar is out of the question. For what reason?
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May 15, 2017 11:40:44 GMT
Post by Martin on May 15, 2017 11:40:44 GMT
Presumably because of the stand design. It does look very good, I have my eye on the 65" version, but wont buy one yet as I've only had my current TV for just over 2 years and the price should come down over the next 12 months.
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May 15, 2017 12:58:57 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 12:58:57 GMT
I looked at replacing mine a month or so ago, and concluded that now is not the time. LEDs still don't do blacks like the best plasmas, so there would be a trade-off in picture quality that I am ont prepared to make. And whilst an LED in the size I'm after could be had for maybe £4k, an OLED (which does do blacks in the plasma style) in the size I want was £15K.
I'm waiting for prices to fall, too. I reckon it'll be at least two years before OLED makes sense in the largest sizes.
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May 15, 2017 14:56:35 GMT
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May 15, 2017 18:09:31 GMT
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Post by Andy C on May 15, 2017 18:09:31 GMT
Gotta be honest , I don't like that design I much prefer the more traditional stand Panasonic now do OLEDs... I wonder if the brilliance of their Plasmas have been carried over . I await reviews of this with interest m.richersounds.com/#!/product/PANA-TX55EZ952B
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May 15, 2017 22:11:37 GMT
Post by humphreythepug on May 15, 2017 22:11:37 GMT
Have you seen that new LG which is only 2.75mm thick (or thin); 65" and only £8k.
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May 16, 2017 7:07:30 GMT
Post by johnc on May 16, 2017 7:07:30 GMT
And Twelfth is talking about £15K for a telly!
I'm obviously a dinosaur because anything over £1K largely gets ignored and I am really only interested when it gets below about £750.
If I spent even half of £8K on a TV I would be facing divorce (although apparently that really isn't a lot to spend on a diamond ring)
Looks like I'll be waiting a long time until the prices fall to my levels but my 7 year old Panasonic Plasma is still doing OK and looks pretty good on HD.
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May 16, 2017 7:55:01 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 7:55:01 GMT
That is for a 77" screen, but it's way beyond what I could make myself spend on a TV. The price of screens does seem to fall reasonably steadily. The first Plasma I bought, a 43" Pioneer, was the most expensive set I'd bought until the current one. The 50" Panasonic that replaced it was better and cheaper, and the 65" Panasonic I bought about three years ago was only a gnat's more than the original Pioneer. I don't see me being prepared to spend a great deal more on its replacement, so it's time to wait. No point replacing a plasma with an OLED of similar size (unless the former is old or wasn't great in the first place) - the picture would be better, but not that much better. Mine still surprises me from time to time.
Replacing your source is always worth considering though - BR players are still getting better. I started looking at all of this because I'd seen that T2 Trainspotting will be a 4k blu ray release and thought about future-proofing (insofar as that's not an bullshit phrase). That would mean a new player, HDMI cables and set - my amp will deal with 4k. I did player (an Oppo) and cables, and even though it's only sending downscaled images to the TV, and has no 4k material as yet, the picture is brilliant - BR looks better than ever and even DVD is improved.
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May 16, 2017 8:18:39 GMT
Post by Big Blue on May 16, 2017 8:18:39 GMT
Does Peppa Pig look any better on an £8k TV.
No?
OK, I'm out.
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May 16, 2017 12:41:54 GMT
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May 16, 2017 14:27:49 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 14:27:49 GMT
You say a soundbar is out of the question. For what reason? The stand is behind the screen, not under it, so all you see from the front is a screen with a tiny bezel. A soundbar sat in front of it would normally just hide the stand on a TV, but it would be obscuring the bottom of the picture with this one. www.trustedreviews.com/sony-a1-oled-reviewI can't afford a soundbar anyway, so I hooked up a Logitech 2.1 speaker system to the TV and it sounds good enough to me.
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May 23, 2017 12:50:28 GMT
Post by PG on May 23, 2017 12:50:28 GMT
And Twelfth is talking about £15K for a telly!
I'm obviously a dinosaur because anything over £1K largely gets ignored and I am really only interested when it gets below about £750.
If I spent even half of £8K on a TV I would be facing divorce (although apparently that really isn't a lot to spend on a diamond ring)
Looks like I'll be waiting a long time until the prices fall to my levels but my 7 year old Panasonic Plasma is still doing OK and looks pretty good on HD.
I'm with you in the dinosaur corner. In fact in evolutionary terms we are even farther behind than you. Our sitting room TV is a flat screen cathode ray. Great picture quality mind...
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May 23, 2017 12:57:27 GMT
Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 23, 2017 12:57:27 GMT
I'm with you in the dinosaur corner. In fact in evolutionary terms we are even farther behind than you. Our sitting room TV is a flat screen cathode ray. Great picture quality mind... How is that even possible?
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May 23, 2017 13:41:59 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 23, 2017 13:41:59 GMT
I'm with you in the dinosaur corner. In fact in evolutionary terms we are even farther behind than you. Our sitting room TV is a flat screen cathode ray. Great picture quality mind... How is that even possible?
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May 23, 2017 14:23:05 GMT
Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 23, 2017 14:23:05 GMT
How is that even possible? Nice - is that the new Samsung?
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Jun 9, 2017 13:59:00 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2017 13:59:00 GMT
That £15k price tag is now £12k at Richers. Still way too much, but proof that prices will fall significantly over the next couple of years.
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Dec 15, 2017 14:45:09 GMT
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Dec 15, 2017 15:44:16 GMT
Post by racingteatray on Dec 15, 2017 15:44:16 GMT
And Twelfth is talking about £15K for a telly!
I'm obviously a dinosaur because anything over £1K largely gets ignored and I am really only interested when it gets below about £750.
Looks like I'll be waiting a long time until the prices fall to my levels but my 7 year old Panasonic Plasma is still doing OK and looks pretty good on HD.
I am entirely with you. We also have a Panasonic Plasma purchased in 2013. I think it is either 42" or 44" and cost about £700. Either way it was a considerable improvement on the 26" Samsung I previously had.
Last year, we had a new custom media/bookcase unit made for the sitting room wall and the TV is now wall-hung on an extendible articulated arm within a designated TV space in that unit. I very deliberately made the TV space of a size that would not accommodate a TV over about 48" inches as the room is quite small and I do not see the need for (nor do I like the look of) some absolutely vast 50+" monster.
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Dec 15, 2017 21:22:44 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2017 21:22:44 GMT
Sony Bravia 40" and it is a bit too big for the room it is in, however I like the picture and with a natural light, light unit behind it is good for films etc. Bought in 2012. I have been shocked at some companies demanding 4k screens as a minimum resolution. What comes after 4k?
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Dec 15, 2017 22:15:26 GMT
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Dec 16, 2017 13:24:04 GMT
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Dec 16, 2017 14:46:18 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2017 14:46:18 GMT
Loewe are overpriced to begin with, though!
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Dec 17, 2017 10:09:24 GMT
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Post by franki68 on Dec 17, 2017 10:09:24 GMT
Aren’t oleds now starting at £1500 ?
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Dec 17, 2017 10:39:03 GMT
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Post by Andy C on Dec 17, 2017 10:39:03 GMT
I paid 1350 for mine
Richer sounds had this years B6 or C6 (can’t remmebr which) for £1500 a few weeks back
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Dec 17, 2017 13:49:34 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2017 13:49:34 GMT
Up to 65" they now start at prices similar to the end of line plasmas. Above that the price jumps by a ridiculous degree.
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Jan 2, 2018 11:44:27 GMT
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Jan 2, 2018 12:33:17 GMT
Post by alf on Jan 2, 2018 12:33:17 GMT
I had an idle look at TV's over the break - we have a 37" Panasonic Viera LCD in the lounge, and actually sit a fair distance from it so a bigger one makes sense. Mrs ALF and Lu were not keen though (both hugely change-averse) and since it's mostly their stuff we watch, I'm not going to get emotional about it. But if you are of the view of John, Racing etc and don't want a 49" + TV, you have a problem - 49" is now the start size for the higher quality TV's. And I don't mean just OLED - the "quantum dot" and "QLED" other better LCD panels start at 49" as well. Something like the "best buy" LG at £573 in the link below looks good, but we can't fit anything over about 43" on the TV stand - it would have to go on the wall, and there would be a load of wiring hassles. And we need the 4 HDMI inputs that often only the high end panels have, plus much of the viewing is done at an angle an in my experience (of hotel rooms mostly!) the budget panels only look good straight on - watch from any sort of angle and the picture is awful. But if you want a great image and less than 49", forget it. This seems truly bizarre to me, does everyone really want a massive f*ck-off panel on a wall? www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-home-entertainment/televisions/televisions/lg-49sj810v-49-smart-4k-ultra-hd-hdr-led-tv-10160553-pdt.html
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Jan 2, 2018 12:56:30 GMT
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Post by Andy C on Jan 2, 2018 12:56:30 GMT
How little there is of tvs now , I don’t think 49/50 inch panels look big at all in an average size living room
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