I just bought my Samsung 2 years ago. I won't be buying anything for quite awhile.
Buying a new TV.
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All depends on your room's lighting conditions and what you plan to watch the most. Plasma being a phosphor display will have unbeatable color accuracy. It will be heavy and consume the most power and will run very warm.It will not be very bright, and wants a dark room.If you game or watch CNN, I have seen the stock tickers burn in after a long time.Plasma has better properties for wider viewing angles.If you would have issues with any of these conditions, go for the 4K units from Samsung, Sharp or LG. Also, if the set cannot produce a good BLACK AND WHITE picture, it will not be able to produce a good color one.
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Originally Posted By: Rolla07
4K looks amazing!! See it for yourself! I wouldnt say 1080P doesnt look good though.
yes it does, but i wont be using 4k programming, or 1080. 720p is about the max that my tv will see for awhile.
Supposedly these 4k TVs do a pretty good job at upconverting, so even if you don't play native 4k content, it still looks better on a 4k TV.
The better 4K TV's do a fantastic job of upconverting. 1080 signals really look good on a big 4K TV.
Originally Posted By: krismoriah72
Originally Posted By: Rolla07
4K looks amazing!! See it for yourself! I wouldnt say 1080P doesnt look good though.
yes it does, but i wont be using 4k programming, or 1080. 720p is about the max that my tv will see for awhile.
Supposedly these 4k TVs do a pretty good job at upconverting, so even if you don't play native 4k content, it still looks better on a 4k TV.
The better 4K TV's do a fantastic job of upconverting. 1080 signals really look good on a big 4K TV.
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
4K is the only way to go, IMO. Im still using a CRT because I was never satisfied with 1080 sets, and just don't watch hardly any TV except the occasional movie. 4k finally makes it good enough to justify buying a TV.
Curious about what content out there makes a 4k TV worth it at inflated just in market prices? 1080 not perfect but they are giving them away comparatively now.
4K is the only way to go, IMO. Im still using a CRT because I was never satisfied with 1080 sets, and just don't watch hardly any TV except the occasional movie. 4k finally makes it good enough to justify buying a TV.
Curious about what content out there makes a 4k TV worth it at inflated just in market prices? 1080 not perfect but they are giving them away comparatively now.
will take a loooong time for normal content to be available, methinks.
No 4K Blu Ray players exist yet...
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/4k-video-source-faq,news-18021.html
No 4K Blu Ray players exist yet...
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/4k-video-source-faq,news-18021.html
I still love the mid-size(50") Pioneer Kuro Elite I bought in 2008; I'm not replacing it until considerably more 4K content becomes available. I also have a 720p 42" Panasonic plasma set that I use in my cheap and dirty basement 5.1 HT/gaming system. For watching broadcast TV and PS4 games it is more than adequate
Some reading on the current state of 4K:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/4KTV-Standards-Are-A-Mess-and-Only-41-Even-Know-What-4K-Is-133032
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For example, many 4KTV vendors are shipping sets that claim to have fully HDMI 2.0 compliant ports, yet the actual ports are only "HDMI lite" -- only capable of 10 Gbps of the full 18 Gbps the standard is supposed to deliver.
As such these sets are being advertised as absolute cutting edge and future proof, but they can't actually deliver full full 4k 4:4:4 chroma at 60p. Worse, many of the biggest manufacturers can't be bothered to advertise this fact.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/4KTV-Standards-Are-A-Mess-and-Only-41-Even-Know-What-4K-Is-133032
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For example, many 4KTV vendors are shipping sets that claim to have fully HDMI 2.0 compliant ports, yet the actual ports are only "HDMI lite" -- only capable of 10 Gbps of the full 18 Gbps the standard is supposed to deliver.
As such these sets are being advertised as absolute cutting edge and future proof, but they can't actually deliver full full 4k 4:4:4 chroma at 60p. Worse, many of the biggest manufacturers can't be bothered to advertise this fact.
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