Need some TV help

[way.tomuch]

I'm in the need for a new TV , But it seems there's a thousand different kinds ... The room its going into is smaller so don't want a mega TV.. any help is appreciated, Also who has best pricing

Thanks all Very Much

way.tomuch

 

[AnnaSteel]

I have an 80" in my room... Also a 60 in my second room and in the incall a 32" it seems like 50" is like a win win

 

[badbadboy]

I'm in the need for a new TV , But it seems there's a thousand different kinds ... The room its going into is smaller so don't want a mega TV.. any help is appreciated, Also who has best pricing

Thanks all Very Much

way.tomuch

What is your viewing distance from where you will be sitting? The viewing distance with respect to the 16 x 9 screen is important.

http://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/size-to-distance-relationship?uxtv=98ac

Is wall mounting feasible?

What components i.e. Shaw box, BluRay, AppleTV are you going to use? Need to know because some TV's come with 2 HDMI only.

Do you use android products? Seems that LG etc are loading a lot of android type apps into their Smart TV's.

I will say I have had a lot of success with Panasonic Viera TV's. I had Sony for years but their quality went down the shitter. I also bought an LG that arrived at my home dead on arrival so I returned it for another Panasonic.

 

[westwoody]

FWIW I run the cable box, BluRay and computer all into HDMI on the stereo receiver. So for me the number of inputs on the TV does not matter.
I do not like so-called smart TVs. My BluRay player has all that stuff and I can run my computer into the TV as well. Smart TVs also seem overpriced.
Costco has good prices. Last year on Boxing Day they were less than Best Buy.

 

[badbadboy]

FWIW I run the cable box, BluRay and computer all into HDMI on the stereo receiver. So for me the number of inputs on the TV does not matter.
I do not like so-called smart TVs. My BluRay player has all that stuff and I can run my computer into the TV as well. Smart TVs also seem overpriced.
Costco has good prices. Last year on Boxing Day they were less than Best Buy.

Agreed. I have an older but high quality power amp that doesn't have HDMI outputs. If I were in the market for a newer system I would go your route too.

 

[resercher]

Im not very tech savy But I purchased A tv from super store a number of years ago it is an old non digital one so I had to get one of those antennas when our local tv stations converted to digital I got the antenna at princess auto. its very small the bonus with it is if i ever get a car it has an atachment where you can use the car. cigarette lighter to power it . It still works Tv is not a big part of my life.

 

[hankmoody]

Some good advice here. 5 years ago i was in the market. Did alot of research and "watching" in stores. I was partial to the LG LCD and ended up buying a 47" online on Future Shops boxing day sale. Wish i went bigger but like it. I went with wall mount and run everything through my Pioneer VCX-1325. Also bought my Klipsch speakers same way. Half price.
Go to the stores and see which you like best. I didn't like the LED as well. And buy the best you can afford (don't skimp on cable either). Technology moves quickly. Unless you plan on upgrading often.

 

[Cock Throppled]

Never understood why everyone wants the biggest TV they can get, but watch most of their media on smartphones with 2-3 inch screens.

 

[LDN3000]

I think 65 is as big as I would want to go for a HDTV maybe 70 at a push. Any bigger than that and you may as well just get a projector setup instead imo.

 

[pro-boner]

(don't skimp on cable either). ???

I disagree. Spending lots of money on expensive cables is a waste. Ask anyone who works at a store and they will tell you their two biggest profit centers are;

1) aftermarket warrantee extension (the vast number of product breakdowns are basically out of the box fails, or happen during the first year.) pure profit!
2) accessories, way over priced! all hype!

Remember friends we are dealing with a digital transmission here. A binary stream of numbers, it either gets through or it doesn't. If it is readable to the receiver it works. it is not analogue where signal quality can affect the output. It is digital it is either there or it isn't. Dollar store cabling works just fine, it either works or it doesn't.

$3.00 or $30 or more. Your choice. Test them side by side, bet you can not tell the difference.

 

[hedgeman]

Jesus, according to that calculator i should have a 75" tv lol...i'm happy with my 60" tyvm lol

What is your viewing distance from where you will be sitting? The viewing distance with respect to the 16 x 9 screen is important.

http://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/size-to-distance-relationship?uxtv=98ac

Is wall mounting feasible?

What components i.e. Shaw box, BluRay, AppleTV are you going to use? Need to know because some TV's come with 2 HDMI only.

Do you use android products? Seems that LG etc are loading a lot of android type apps into their Smart TV's.

I will say I have had a lot of success with Panasonic Viera TV's. I had Sony for years but their quality went down the shitter. I also bought an LG that arrived at my home dead on arrival so I returned it for another Panasonic.

 

[westwoody]

Monster Cables are one of the biggest scams going!
HDMI are all the same, they conform to an industry standard. Don't let some sales goof talk you into buying super duper ones. 4k might require HDMI 2.0 cable.
Extended warranties are a scam too, buy with most credit cards and the card gives an extra year of warranty. Extended warranty is a profit stream for retailers.


I had a 65 and it took up my whole room. Things look smaller in a big store, you get it home and go " holy crap that is huge "!

 

[way.tomuch]

WOW ... Thanks all, ill continue my hunt.... cheers

 

[Riza]

I have 3 Samsung TV's One 50" plasma that is about 8 yrs old, one 65" LED that is 3 yrs and a 32" LED 2 yrs old. So far not one problem with the lot of them. The 65 is smart TV and 3D TV, never used either function. Total waste of money, that's what I have a computer for. If you can save some money and go for a "Dumb TV" do it :doh: I had a 5 yr old 40" (guess) Insignia best buy brand special and worked fine until I gave it away. Good for a second or third cheap TV but not the main movie or porn watching TV ound:

 

[badbadboy]

As luck would have it, I've been asked to help put together a system for a non tech savvy friend.

So far I've looked at London Drugs, Best Buy and Visions with all their 55" to 65" TV's. My head hurts now.

I like the capabilites of the Sound Bars that with provide a pretty good listening experience without an amplifier. Some have additional HDMI's and most importantly a decent sub woofer. Sonos and Bose seem to have a good product offering but may put off my friend because they really start at $1100 and the sky's the limit from there.

I guess I'll be watching the ads a lot closer now.

 

[Muffdiver69]

need more detail about your tv usage and viewing distance. Will you be primarily watching cable? (Shaw or Telus)
Will you be watching movies on BluRay or DVD? when watching movies do you dim the lights to get the movie theatre effect?

Most sets these days are LCD. LCD by itself cannot display images without some sort of backlight. Gone are the days that the backlight was a florescent tube.
Most now are all LED backlighted LCD screens. Many of the cheaper sets use edge lit backlighting. Better sets also have what is called local dimming. Which means
they can adjust the amount of light showing thru to aid in better black levels and shadow detail.

Farther up the scale is an LED LCD with full array local dimming. Which means the LED lights cover the full rear area of the screen and are divided into separate zones.
Those zones can be controlled and dimmed / brightened independently.

next is screen resolution. Many tv sets now are LCD LED 1080p or 4K. Which is just how many pixels are on the screen. A 1080p screen is 1920x1080 and 4k is 3840x2160 and thus
is 4x the resolution of 1080. Since mostly nothing is really using 4k natively now, a 4k tv would be using 1080p or 720p signals and upconverting.

Next there is the newest tech called OLED and that is available in 1080 or 4k. The primary difference with OLED is there is no backlight. Each pixel on the screen makes its own light. (i am lusting after one of these sets currently have a 50in Panasonic Plasma) Picture clarity and black / shadow detail on these sets is fantastic.

And lastly there is plasma. Not too many supporting plasma these days. I think only LG and Samsung are left. Panasonic dropped plasma in early 2014.

so bottom line. depends on what you will be watching and how far you will be sitting. Most broadcast tv even in HD is only 720p. Telus TV only outputs 720p.
So i am guessing you would probably be happy with a 42-55in LED LCD. And once you get the set go into picture settings and turn off "torch mode" ..usually called
Vivid.

 

[Muffdiver69]

to add about why local dimming may be something you want. You may have noticed on some LCD screens, especially when viewing things with black bars
that the black bars are not black. They are grey and can even see the backlight bleeding thru. This is more noticeable when you dim the lights to get the movie
theatre effect. With local dimming, the tv can turn off LED backlight in the areas with black bars.

The same goes where i mention shadow detail. A good example is the modern movie version of King Kong. There is a scene that is mostly dark forest. On a non local dimming set
the whole area just looks dark. With local dimming you see more details in the dark areas.

and lol. i guess i wont touch on things like "soap opera effect" which mostly happens with LCD screens. But if you are interested
http://www.cnet.com/news/what-is-the-soap-opera-effect/

 

[87112]

LG and Samsung no longer make Plasmas. I have 2 Plasmas from 2010 and still find the picture more than good. Plasmas got a bad rep, most people at store bought the brightest set they could find which was LCD, but did not know most of the time plasma offered a better picture.