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I am not sure it is too small, I think it depends on sitting distance? I guess most home 3D setups use side by side image processing(?) so you get half the resolution and I have found (so far) 40" to be more than suitable (our living room wouldnt cope with much bigger). Most 3D blu rays I believe will give you 1080 per eye but most streamed content will not (as far as my understanding goes)
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Can't comment on the HD/UHD discussion but as for choosing a TV, I poured over specs (contrast ratios in the main) when looking for a TV when I bought my flat in 2009.
Smart TVs were just about coming in but were very expensive and I had a budget of around £600. Decided a 40" screen would be plenty big enough for my lounge (which is was) so it was just down to plasma/LCD (LEDs were too expensive then) and which brand.
My brother is a complete technophobe but I was talking to him as he'd not long bought a 46" Panasonic plasma but he said he just went into Comet & John Lewis and just watched all of the TVs (just like someone else on here has said).
I took his advice and at the time, the Panasonic & Samsung screens really stood out from the rest so I ended up with the Samsung which still has a fantastic picture over 5 years on.
In my new lounge, I could do with a slightly bigger screen and a Smart TV would be nice but there's still no real justification for a new one....... or more to the point, with my wife still on maternity leave there's definitely no budget for a new TV
Smart TVs were just about coming in but were very expensive and I had a budget of around £600. Decided a 40" screen would be plenty big enough for my lounge (which is was) so it was just down to plasma/LCD (LEDs were too expensive then) and which brand.
My brother is a complete technophobe but I was talking to him as he'd not long bought a 46" Panasonic plasma but he said he just went into Comet & John Lewis and just watched all of the TVs (just like someone else on here has said).
I took his advice and at the time, the Panasonic & Samsung screens really stood out from the rest so I ended up with the Samsung which still has a fantastic picture over 5 years on.
In my new lounge, I could do with a slightly bigger screen and a Smart TV would be nice but there's still no real justification for a new one....... or more to the point, with my wife still on maternity leave there's definitely no budget for a new TV
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Yeah, I think it's common knowledge that when the big shops want to shift a particular telly they just turn the brightness on it up a notch
Most people tend to buy the one with the brightest picture in the shop.
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For normal image I agree, for 3D I find that it has to be bigger to emerge fully and be effective. Mine most definitely doesn't process side by side unless the source material comes from a dubious source. But I guess it is all down to personal preference. I find our 60" plasma too small as I can see around it easily with the active glasses.
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I found sources like Youtube / Netflix 4K are all side by side. Upon reading up I see Blu Ray disc are top / bottom (http://www.cnet.com/news/how-3d-content-works-blu-ray-vs-broadcast/) but of course the TV handles these images and shows them accordingly.
One thing I like with Active 3D is that if you play a split screen game (such as I do with my children) the TV will allow you to switch the 3D mode on so you cannot see each others screens by shutting one wavelength out from each pair of glasses.
I wish we go up a size or 2 (I think I would be happy with around 55inch) but the it took alot of pushing with the wife to get a 40 inch
One thing I like with Active 3D is that if you play a split screen game (such as I do with my children) the TV will allow you to switch the 3D mode on so you cannot see each others screens by shutting one wavelength out from each pair of glasses.
I wish we go up a size or 2 (I think I would be happy with around 55inch) but the it took alot of pushing with the wife to get a 40 inch
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I asked a similar question to the OP in the computer section of this forum before Christmas after looking at different TV's for a while.
I purchased a Sony Bravia W7 42" TV on Boxing Day as I didnt have the space to go any larger. We set the TV up and the pic and colours were poor and worse than the Philips Flat Screen It replaced and our Panny Plasma in front room, so I tried the different AV forums for calibaration / best settings and with no joy. So after a few days I returned the TV and bought a LG 4K 42" for £499 instead. The picture quality is like night and day to my eyes and my wife's, who has noticed a complete difference in pic quality, she's not usually a person to pass comment on things like this.
I don't know if I had a faulty Sony, but from my eyes 4K looked the best in the shop and is proving to be the same in the house. It was also my favourite before asking the question on here but I took some of the advice and went the HD route intially.
I purchased a Sony Bravia W7 42" TV on Boxing Day as I didnt have the space to go any larger. We set the TV up and the pic and colours were poor and worse than the Philips Flat Screen It replaced and our Panny Plasma in front room, so I tried the different AV forums for calibaration / best settings and with no joy. So after a few days I returned the TV and bought a LG 4K 42" for £499 instead. The picture quality is like night and day to my eyes and my wife's, who has noticed a complete difference in pic quality, she's not usually a person to pass comment on things like this.
I don't know if I had a faulty Sony, but from my eyes 4K looked the best in the shop and is proving to be the same in the house. It was also my favourite before asking the question on here but I took some of the advice and went the HD route intially.
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Yeah, I think it's common knowledge that when the big shops want to shift a particular telly they just turn the brightness on it up a notch
I think I'm descerning enough to realise if a store was trying to hoodwink me like that
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I think I'm descerning enough to realise if a store was trying to hoodwink me like that
Possibly. But on average "people" aren't. I know a bunch of store managers with the bonuses to prove it
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Possibly. But on average "people" aren't. I know a bunch of store managers with the bonuses to prove it
And no doubt helped by customers also walking out of the store with "superdupermegagoldplated HDMI leads" 'cos they make the picture even better
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Yeah, I think it's common knowledge that when the big shops want to shift a particular telly they just turn the brightness on it up a notch
It's worse that that.
The manufacturers produce a super saturated setting, in the menu, to snag the unwary!
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It is, in my opinion, part of the death of good plasma TVs like my old Pioneer Kuro and the likes. The general public fell for the oldest trick in the book and preferred the cheap over saturated tat over quality and colour accuracy as they just don't look great and rather flat in a shop with its full on lighting.
I don't know about you all, but I don't run TL Tubes in my living room as lighting, have it considerably more dim and when I watch TV it is generally dark with the curtains drawn as I work during the day. Anyway I'll stop my racquet now
I don't know about you all, but I don't run TL Tubes in my living room as lighting, have it considerably more dim and when I watch TV it is generally dark with the curtains drawn as I work during the day. Anyway I'll stop my racquet now
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It is, in my opinion, part of the death of good plasma TVs like my old Pioneer Kuro and the likes. The general public fell for the oldest trick in the book and preferred the cheap over saturated tat over quality and colour accuracy as they just don't look great and rather flat in a shop with its full on lighting.
I don't know about you all, but I don't run TL Tubes in my living room as lighting, have it considerably more dim and when I watch TV it is generally dark with the curtains drawn as I work during the day. Anyway I'll stop my racquet now
Was there any particular reason for the downturn in Plasma's, Safety, production costs etc?? ............
I love my Panny which I have had for about 10 years. We looked at some of them online before we purchased our 4k TV and they seem thin on the ground. I prefer Plasmas for football and looked to get an updated one, of the one we have, but the current Panny Plasma has poor reviews.