Televisions

[Ohio]

The newer episodes have hit higher than the 2- 300 or so nit peak brightness than the first two episodes. The HDR has noticeably improved. Some of the explosions and lasers have to be going over 600 nits that i've seen recently.

I noticed this as well.

 

[TyGuy]

I noticed this as well.

Also people need to realize that peak brightness in HDR is half the puzzle. HDR uses a wide color gamut, so you get deeper saturation of color shades. Not many people tend to report on this. Certainly it is disappointing when you only reach 300 nit peak brightness though. The wow factor of HDR tends to be in darker scenes where you have very bright object in the scene showing the contrast of dark to extremely bright in one frame, but you will also notice it's effect in scenes that call for high color saturation such as neon lights. That's why altered carbon was extremely good, ditto both blade runner films.

 

[inliner311]

There has been a lot released about ATSC 3.0 recently. Unfortunately only a handful of manufactures are including them into TVs and it seems like they are only going to put them into their highest end TV's so far.

It seems like the signal is going to be alot easier to pick up and we should be able to have tuners in our cell phone or tablets and have portable TV's again.

The increased bandwidth and compress will give us alot more channels too. It will be 2-3 times the bandwidth and the compression will be 4x more so they said there could be up to 40 SD channels from one station. Some of the test stations have a 4k channel and 9 HD channels will the capacity to add more. Also they have the ability to encrypt channels but they can't encrypt their main channel. So that could mean a la carte like cable without the cable company and no need to stream the channel.

 

[Benway]

Grave-digging time.

Boredom has driven me to the edge of a TV purchase. Upon being fired up after a lengthy hibernation, my 14 year old LG plasma has come down with a case of pink lines. Its time is up.

My initial impulse is to buy a Sony X900H 65". It hits my price and size sweet spot. (I'll likely fall down the rabbit hole and accessorize it with a blue ray player and possibly a new surround receiver later, though I never, ever play video games.)

Looking for ideas and pitfalls to avoid!

 

[Hurl Bruce]

My tv, a Samsung model UN55KU6300F, will "blink" from time to time. Just have a black screen for a split second. It can be so annoying. It also shuts off from time to time and restarts on its own. It's annoying, but it's only 3-4 years old. I can't figure out what's wrong with it. Any help from online without paying for someone to look at it includes me cutting a wire or two...and I'm not doing that.

I don't think I've ever had a TV repairman come do work for me. How much does that stuff cost?

 

[Obscured By Clouds]

Grave-digging time.

Boredom has driven me to the edge of a TV purchase. Upon being fired up after a lengthy hibernation, my 14 year old LG plasma has come down with a case of pink lines. Its time is up.

My initial impulse is to buy a Sony X900H 65". It hits my price and size sweet spot. (I'll likely fall down the rabbit hole and accessorize it with a blue ray player and possibly a new surround receiver later, though I never, ever play video games.)

Looking for ideas and pitfalls to avoid!

I strongly suggest going to cnet and reading their reviews of TV's. David Katzmaier is an excellent reviewer. I also suggest going for the best picture quality for your budget, as it's a TV, and that is it's primary purpose. Anything like bad built in speakers can easily be replaced via a home theater or even a decent sound bar.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

My tv, a Samsung model UN55KU6300F, will "blink" from time to time. Just have a black screen for a split second. It can be so annoying. It also shuts off from time to time and restarts on its own. It's annoying, but it's only 3-4 years old. I can't figure out what's wrong with it. Any help from online without paying for someone to look at it includes me cutting a wire or two...and I'm not doing that.

I don't think I've ever had a TV repairman come do work for me. How much does that stuff cost?

For the black screen, you sure it's your TV?

Typically that's the source (like your receiver), and I blame it on HDMI.

For the shutting off, sounds like overheating. Blow out some dust with canned air?

 

[Obscured By Clouds]

I've had flickering with an HDMI cable on my ultrawide monitor. Even though its not full 4k(3840 x 2160) due to it being ultrawide(3440 x 1440), I ended up needing a 4K certified cable

 

[Man Called X]

My tv, a Samsung model UN55KU6300F, will "blink" from time to time. Just have a black screen for a split second. It can be so annoying. It also shuts off from time to time and restarts on its own. It's annoying, but it's only 3-4 years old. I can't figure out what's wrong with it. Any help from online without paying for someone to look at it includes me cutting a wire or two...and I'm not doing that.

I don't think I've ever had a TV repairman come do work for me. How much does that stuff cost?

Being that it's a Samsung, there's a couple possible culprits. Usually, the powering on than back off is a bad capacitor on the board. Was super common in their plasmas, not as much in the LEDs, but still there. As for the black screen, is it happening on multiple sources, only one source etc? Could be a bad HDMI cable, could be a bad HDMI port on the TV, could be the same thin ass wire they run down the middle of their smart TVs that gets burnt out and causes menus to go fucky, wifi to quit working, etc.

 

[Obscured By Clouds]

Grave-digging time.

Boredom has driven me to the edge of a TV purchase. Upon being fired up after a lengthy hibernation, my 14 year old LG plasma has come down with a case of pink lines. Its time is up.

My initial impulse is to buy a Sony X900H 65". It hits my price and size sweet spot. (I'll likely fall down the rabbit hole and accessorize it with a blue ray player and possibly a new surround receiver later, though I never, ever play video games.)

Looking for ideas and pitfalls to avoid!

Another thing: If you have a costco membership(or one near you where you can sign up), that is where you buy it from. They offer a free second year warranty on TV's, and if you use their credit card, they give you a third year.

If you do not need a tuner(so why pay for it), the Vizio M series is an excellent 'monitor.' The built in apps suck, but I use an nVidio Shield to stream, so it doesn't impact me. I have a very nice home theater, so I don't use the speakers. I got mine in 2018 during Super Bowl week(this is the cheapest time to buy TV's, BTW) and it was the 2017 model, it was being cleared out for the 2018 model year that was about to be released.

I used the money saved from not buying a Sony or Samsung and bought a x-right i1 colorimeter and software and calibrated the screen. That was so worth it, let me tell you. The picture is absolutely stunning.

If you can really hold off, Vizio's OLED TV's are coming soon, and they use the same panel as the LG's.

Vizio’s first OLED TVs are coming this fall, and they’re priced to move

Vizio also revealed pricing and availability for its largest LCD TV to date, along with the rest of its new TVs for 2020.

www.techhive.com

 

[Benway]

Dang, maybe I should hold out for an OLED with all the bells and whistles.

 

[Obscured By Clouds]

Dang, maybe I should hold out for an OLED with all the bells and whistles.

I'd wait to see how good that Vizio is, and at that $2k price, it will help drive down other company's prices. Fall isn't that far away.

 

[Man Called X]

Vizios are junk except for their high end M series.

 

[Randolphkeys]

My family picked up an LG 4K for the living room about a year and a half ago, we are very happy with it. It also made us realize how crappy the older TVs in the bedrooms are, so this year we grabbed Vizio 4K televisions for my kids' room and the master bedroom. There is a little drop off, but having smart TVs that are just a little less than top shelf isn't hard to use once you get used to it. I'd push for saving cash and getting used to a Vizio unless you have tons of $$ to throw around. Televisions aren't made to last anymore, they are meant to be replaced.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

1) Figure out what kind of panel you want.
2) Decide if there are any specific features you want/need
3) Find those for the cheapest price.
4) Determine what the best source for your needs is (Likely this is going to be an Amazon Fire Stick on the low end, an Nvidia Shield on the higher end, or a Raspberry Pi for the DIY crowd)

You can usually find a really good panel for a really cheap price from Vizio or TCL. I think TCL recently started making their own panels? So, you might not be getting a lower-binned Samsung/LG panel anymore. TCL also has Roku software built in, if you're looking for a budget option.