Last Thanksgiving we watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on my son's FIL's 60" 4k. Just unreal!! I have no idea what he paid for it.
720p vs 1080p LED TVs
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I just have some kind of 37 inch flat screen my wife bought and I am not much of a tv watcher IMHO TV is offensive but the flat screen [led/lcd?] has an awesome picture with the antenna H.D. programming. My friend bought some top of the line 52 inch screen with a Blue Ray player and the Blue Ray picture is so clear it is border line annoying.
Originally Posted By: panther427
What size tv and what will it be used for and amount of time used.?
Probably a 32 inch used for antenna TV and DVDs for about an hour a day.
Now I'm trying to decide whether I need a Smart TV or not.
What size tv and what will it be used for and amount of time used.?
Probably a 32 inch used for antenna TV and DVDs for about an hour a day.
Now I'm trying to decide whether I need a Smart TV or not.
Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
Probably a 32 inch used for antenna TV and DVDs for about an hour a day.
On a TV this small, you won't notice much difference between 720p and 1080p.
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Now I'm trying to decide whether I need a Smart TV or not.
If all you're going to be doing is watching antenna TV and DVDs, then no, you don't.
Probably a 32 inch used for antenna TV and DVDs for about an hour a day.
On a TV this small, you won't notice much difference between 720p and 1080p.
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Now I'm trying to decide whether I need a Smart TV or not.
If all you're going to be doing is watching antenna TV and DVDs, then no, you don't.
There is this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNJdPyoqt8U that you can run at 2160p. This made me appreciate my 60" 4K. I converted it from VP9 to H.265 so the video would play back from the TVs built in media HEVC player. Even run through the wringer, it still makes me happy. I can get to within 18-24" of the screen and still not have any pixilation. Oh, transcoding with an AMD?....make sure you got time.
32", it really is moot. For all intents and purposes 720p looks close enough to 1080i, and sometimes better, and not all broadcasters have a 1080i resolution. I have seen 50" 720p plasmas that were impressive, until you get within 6-7 feet. I have an old LG 32" in the bedroom and the missus hasn't complained, and I can't tell the difference from 8', so I tolerate that old thing until OLEDs are commonplace.
Smart TVs- if you are on broadband and have Netflix or Amazon Prime, then heck yeah. I gave up my $108/month DirecTV. Since I got a "smart TV" my HTPC doesn't get used nearly as often. I have a Firestick on my "dumb TV", and that makes life tolerable.
Any TV purchase you make now is just a stop gap for 3-4 years until OLEDs go mainstream. Those things will become silly cheap when the manufacturing ramps up.
32", it really is moot. For all intents and purposes 720p looks close enough to 1080i, and sometimes better, and not all broadcasters have a 1080i resolution. I have seen 50" 720p plasmas that were impressive, until you get within 6-7 feet. I have an old LG 32" in the bedroom and the missus hasn't complained, and I can't tell the difference from 8', so I tolerate that old thing until OLEDs are commonplace.
Smart TVs- if you are on broadband and have Netflix or Amazon Prime, then heck yeah. I gave up my $108/month DirecTV. Since I got a "smart TV" my HTPC doesn't get used nearly as often. I have a Firestick on my "dumb TV", and that makes life tolerable.
Any TV purchase you make now is just a stop gap for 3-4 years until OLEDs go mainstream. Those things will become silly cheap when the manufacturing ramps up.
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Originally Posted By: JustinH
So the only TV's that look measurably better for me is the new 4k Tv's with true 4k content playing on them.
I have a 50 inch Changhong $200 LED TV and it looks the same as any other HD set I have looked at.
I also have a 40 inch Insigna $149 Best Buy special TV in the bedroom that looks ok as well.
We have directv, and the picture is fine. Bluray looks better.
4k looks amazing, can't wait a few years for it to catch on.
Curious...what 4K content have you seen that looks so nice?
Not knowing what 4K content might be in the future...I can't imagine being dissatisfied with the 720p/1080i channels I currently have using my 2010 Samsung LCDs.
GrtArtiste
Best Buy and Fry's both have nice setups in their stores.
The first one I seen was a sony streaming 4k box ($900). It downloaded 4k content over the internet, that you could rent 4k movies or buy them. I bet they go for 25 bucks a pop.
The sony picture was considerably better than any HDTV I have ever seen.
More recently, Fry's Electronics had a curved Samsung TV about 65 or 70 inches that had 4k content playing on it. That looked equally as good.
I have a 200 dollar LED HDTV and it looks just fine to me for watching HD DirecTV, but this 4k content is the first time I have been impressed with the picture on a TV in a long time.
There is some 4k content on youtube, we streamed it on a high resolution mac monitor at work and it looked good but not quite the same experience I suppose as a 70 inch curved screen.
Originally Posted By: JustinH
So the only TV's that look measurably better for me is the new 4k Tv's with true 4k content playing on them.
I have a 50 inch Changhong $200 LED TV and it looks the same as any other HD set I have looked at.
I also have a 40 inch Insigna $149 Best Buy special TV in the bedroom that looks ok as well.
We have directv, and the picture is fine. Bluray looks better.
4k looks amazing, can't wait a few years for it to catch on.
Curious...what 4K content have you seen that looks so nice?
Not knowing what 4K content might be in the future...I can't imagine being dissatisfied with the 720p/1080i channels I currently have using my 2010 Samsung LCDs.
GrtArtiste
Best Buy and Fry's both have nice setups in their stores.
The first one I seen was a sony streaming 4k box ($900). It downloaded 4k content over the internet, that you could rent 4k movies or buy them. I bet they go for 25 bucks a pop.
The sony picture was considerably better than any HDTV I have ever seen.
More recently, Fry's Electronics had a curved Samsung TV about 65 or 70 inches that had 4k content playing on it. That looked equally as good.
I have a 200 dollar LED HDTV and it looks just fine to me for watching HD DirecTV, but this 4k content is the first time I have been impressed with the picture on a TV in a long time.
There is some 4k content on youtube, we streamed it on a high resolution mac monitor at work and it looked good but not quite the same experience I suppose as a 70 inch curved screen.
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