I'm saving $80 a month after dropping DirecTV today. Time for a TV upgrade.
My current TV is a 46" Sony Bravia KDL-EX710 edge-lit LED LCD. It was a decent enough TV for its time, but one thing about which bugged me to no end was the backlight bleeding around the edges, especially in the corners. Watching a movie such as Gravity was frustrating, to say the least. So no more edge-lit TVs for me.
What I want is the Huber of 4Ks, the LD OLED TV, but at $2500 for the least expensive 55" model, I'm not sure I can swing Lockbodywife on one. It didn't help matters that the last time we were at Best Buy I took her over to look at one and they didn't have any 4K content running on the floor model. She said, "That $700 4K over there has a better looking picture than the LG!" and she was right, because BB had a 4K Blue Ray hooked up to it, and it did look much nicer. But I've read the reviews. The OLEDs are almost unmatched in picture quality.
But they're also expensive.
So who makes a good 4K TV that won't break the bank? I've read so many review on Best Buy and Amazon I'm blue in the face. For every positive review I read of a Sony, Samsung, or LG LCD TV I read, there's a negative saying you'd be a fool to buy it.
55" is about all I need for the space it'll go in. We sit about 8-10' from it. Moderately bright room in the afternoon, but shaded most other times. NO edge-lighting. Tuner a must, which leaves out recent Vizios. I guess any new 4K will have HDR, but both HDR10 and Dolby Vision would be nice.
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I'm saving $80 a month after dropping DirecTV today. Time for a TV upgrade.
My current TV is a 46" Sony Bravia KDL-EX710 edge-lit LED LCD. It was a decent enough TV for its time, but one thing about which bugged me to no end was the backlight bleeding around the edges, especially in the corners. Watching a movie such as Gravity was frustrating, to say the least. So no more edge-lit TVs for me.
What I want is the Huber of 4Ks, the LD OLED TV, but at $2500 for the least expensive 55" model, I'm not sure I can swing Lockbodywife on one. It didn't help matters that the last time we were at Best Buy I took her over to look at one and they didn't have any 4K content running on the floor model. She said, "That $700 4K over there has a better looking picture than the LG!" and she was right, because BB had a 4K Blue Ray hooked up to it, and it did look much nicer. But I've read the reviews. The OLEDs are almost unmatched in picture quality.
But they're also expensive.
So who makes a good 4K TV that won't break the bank? I've read so many review on Best Buy and Amazon I'm blue in the face. For every positive review I read of a Sony, Samsung, or LG LCD TV I read, there's a negative saying you'd be a fool to buy it.
55" is about all I need for the space it'll go in. We sit about 8-10' from it. Moderately bright room in the afternoon, but shaded most other times. NO edge-lighting. Tuner a must, which leaves out recent Vizios. I guess any new 4K will have HDR, but both HDR10 and Dolby Vision would be nice.
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