TV’s - Minefield

[rufmeister]

Looking at getting a new TV, looking at 65”, and wow, heads blown with the selection out there.

Used mainly for Sky and PS4 with occasional Netflix.

Budget was £1500 but can go more for if it’s worth it.

Popped to look at Curry’s earlier, and had to walk out as I understood none of the tech, I’m losing touch.

[legzr1]

Save yourself hours of suffering and buy a LG 65B7.

[anonymous-user]

legzr1 said:

Save yourself hours of suffering and buy a LG 65B7.

About a grand over the OPs budget though.

[B17NNS]

legzr1 said:

Save yourself hours of suffering and buy a LG 65B7.

or if you're stuck at £1500 get the 55B7

[chasingracecars]

Basically you are looking at 4k you will not get a 65" good 4K unit for under 1K, ignore it if it comes up.

There are QLED and OLED. OLED knocks the socks of a standard 4K screen and QLED is Samsungs offer to come up against the LG OLED. Sony are also now doing OLED. They are all still 4K but the different way they produce light means better black and colours.

Ask to see the remotes if not using sky/virgin or a freeview recorder as this will be the difference between a good and bad experience.

If you can stretch have a look at the 65" OLED from LG they are superb!

[rufmeister]

legzr1 said:

Save yourself hours of suffering and buy a LG 65B7.

Just knew someone would say that, looking on the net seems to be THE one to get at the minute for sure.

[legzr1]

garyhun said:

About a grand over the OPs budget though.

Which he said he can go over if worth it.

It's worth it

[anonymous-user]

legzr1 said:

garyhun said:

About a grand over the OPs budget though.

Which he said he can go over if worth it.

It's worth it

I agree it's worth it. Does the OP though? Another £1000 is quite a bit on a £1500 budget

[legzr1]

garyhun said:

I agree it's worth it. Does the OP though? Another £1000 is quite a bit on a £1500 budget

Yeah, I get that.

There always the suggestion above - lose a few inches.

[rufmeister]

garyhun said:

I agree it's worth it. Does the OP though? Another £1000 is quite a bit on a £1500 budget

I certainly wasn’t planning on near doubling the budget, but at least now I have a benchmark, will go and look again.

Cheers all.

[anonymous-user]

rufmeister said:

garyhun said:

I agree it's worth it. Does the OP though? Another £1000 is quite a bit on a £1500 budget

I certainly wasn’t planning on near doubling the budget, but at least now I have a benchmark, will go and look again.

Cheers all.

It's all about priorities.

I think the B7 is the best set on the market and will get a 65" for my next house (2 years time so will probably be the B9 by then). However I just purchased a 55" Samsung because its all I need right now and was a great price.

[legzr1]

rufmeister said:

I certainly wasn’t planning on near doubling the budget, but at least now I have a benchmark, will go and look again.

Cheers all.

Double your budget is £3000 - I've just saved you £500

[Grumpy old git]

The LG 65B7 has 10% off at Currys until tomorrow with code tv10 but that's still £750 over budget.

If you can't stretch to that personally I'd consider the Panasonic offering, but then I'm a Panasonic fan boy.

https://www.richersounds.com/tv-projectors/all-tvs...

https://www.richersounds.com/tv-projectors/all-tvs...

[chasingracecars]

Grumpy old git said:

The LG 65B7 has 10% off at Currys until tomorrow with code tv10 but that's still £750 over budget.

If you can't stretch to that personally I'd consider the Panasonic offering, but then I'm a Panasonic fan boy.

https://www.richersounds.com/tv-projectors/all-tvs...

https://www.richersounds.com/tv-projectors/all-tvs...

That’s not OLED though or similar. Side by side they are very different.

[Grumpy old git]

chasingracecars said:

That’s not OLED though or similar. Side by side they are very different.

They're not OLED but the op asked about 65" TVs for £1500 and he won't get a 65" OLED for that budget. If he's happy to downsize to 55", then he should go for the 55" LG OLED, but I doubt he'd be disappointed with either of those Panasonic TVs if it has to be 65".

[rufmeister]

Thanks for the advice on here, plumped for a Sony 65” LED, my wife hated it, couldn’t watch it, too big, so managed to swap it for a 55 LG OLED C7.

What a great telly that is! Not too much bigger than our old one, and even just on 1080p it’s hugely better than our 3-4 year old Sony.

[legzr1]

A happy ending.

[rufmeister]

Was surprised we were given a refund, as we had opened the box and set it up.

Thumbs up to Currys Milton Keynes for that!

Now my wife is happy, so I am happy.

[mickmcpaddy]

Whatever TV you look at there will be a reason not to buy it, Plasma better than LCD, then when TVs were HD ready they weren't 1080, when they were 1080 they were only i and not p, then they should be 4K. After that 4K was rubbish because it wan't HDR,then when tvs were HDR it was 8 bit is rubbish get 10 bit, now its something to do with RGBW, it just goes on and on and on.

[hyphen]

mickmcpaddy said:

Whatever TV you look at there will be a reason not to buy it, Plasma better than LCD, then when TVs were HD ready they weren't 1080, when they were 1080 they were only i and not p, then they should be 4K. After that 4K was rubbish because it wan't HDR,then when tvs were HDR it was 8 bit is rubbish get 10 bit, now its something to do with RGBW, it just goes on and on and on.

I'm waiting for HDMI 2.1 before buying anything expensive