60" smart TV?
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Mark V GTD

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2,663 posts

140 months

Saturday 4th September 2021
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Currently have a Samsung 50" but not convinced that upgrading to 55" is going to be sufficiently noticeable (can't believe how small 50" TV's look in a shop display setting nowadays!).

On the other hand, the 65" models are, I have concluded, just too big for me but to my surprise Samsung don't do a 60".

In fact I have only found one solitary 60" TV on the UK market - the LG 60UP80006LR. Bit baffled by this - surely the sizes available from the mainstream manufacturers would go up in increments of 5" so why is 60" largely overlooked - unless I'm missing something.... ?

matjk

1,112 posts

156 months

Sunday 5th September 2021
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In my explanation of you think a 60 inch is the perfect size and 65 is just to big , You will buy a 60 and it will be perfect for 2 weeks and then you will start thinking maybe you could have got away with the 65 after all , then in 4 weeks it will change to regret not getting the 65 after all.
60 is a rare size , I guess it’s just not popular and actually more expensive than an equivalent 65 , get the 65

Lucid_AV

452 posts

52 months

Sunday 5th September 2021
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Mark V GTD said:
surely the sizes available from the mainstream manufacturers would go up in increments of 5" so why is 60" largely overlooked - unless I'm missing something.... ?
Why 5"? There isn't an established pattern for 5" increments in the lower sizes. Taking a non-scientific round-up of a segment of the TVs at Argos and Currys and throwing Samsung in to the mix too, the sizes for living room TV go as follows: 32" 39" 40" 42" 43" 48" 49" 50" 55" 58" 60" 65" 70" 75" 77" 85" 88".

Looking at Samsung in isolation, for their larger screen sizes the increments are 10". They go 55" 65" 75" 85"

What you're missing I think is that the TV screen fabrication business is cutthroat, and that there are generations of glass substrate, the later ones coming from machines capable of making bigger sheets. This reduces the production cost per square inch.. The substrate is cut in to segments to make screens. Reducing waste improves profitability, and so cutting certain screen sizes will optimise on that.

I have seen examples of wholesale screen prices where a bigger screen size from a later generation plant could theoretically be offered in to the market to undercut the price of smaller earlier-generation screens if a manufacturer felt the need to be ultra-aggressive. This is one of the factors driving the real-terms reduction in TV prices.

There's also the types of screens available and whether they're made all different sizes. We know that size choices are limited in OLED screens, but you also have the basic and the higher performing versions of VA and IPS panel for standard LCD and the NanoCell / QLED TVs. Then you also have the 8K variants too.

By the look of it, 60" is starting to filter through in basic LCD TVs from LG and Samsung. The latter has what they call a crystal TV in 60": the UE60AU8000KXXU @ £700-ish. It could be that 60" will become a new mainstream size. We are just seeing the first products to land perhaps.


Mark V GTD

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Monday 6th September 2021
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Lucid_AV said:
Why 5"? There isn't an established pattern for 5" increments in the lower sizes. Taking a non-scientific round-up of a segment of the TVs at Argos and Currys and throwing Samsung in to the mix too, the sizes for living room TV go as follows: 32" 39" 40" 42" 43" 48" 49" 50" 55" 58" 60" 65" 70" 75" 77" 85" 88".
Thans for that insight - you make a great point and also very grateful for the heads up on the Samsung model - never spotted that one in my research!

matjk said:
You will buy a 60 and it will be perfect for 2 weeks and then you will start thinking maybe you could have got away with the 65 after all , then in 4 weeks it will change to regret not getting the 65 after all.
I hear you - and this is the reason I decided not to go for a 55" but started to look for the elusive 60".


Mark V GTD

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140 months

Tuesday 7th September 2021
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Strange world.... Richer Sounds stock 15 different LG 65" TV's! I can understand there being a few different specs and price levels for a 65" screen - but 15 from one manufacturer?

STiG911

1,210 posts

183 months

Wednesday 8th September 2021
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This isn't meant to sound as bad as it'll read, but Richer Sounds are like the Wetherspoons of the AV world they make massive buys in bulk, rather than just having 'normal' supply lines like Curry's, John Lewis, etc.
This often means there will be a huge selection from, say, two or three big makers one month, then two different makers the next. No big thing, it's just the way they operate in order to offer us shoppers the deals they do.