UHD TV or 1080P? (1 Viewer)

[efil4stnias]

Thanks OP.

i have a 40"Sony LCD Bravia ( living room ) since 2005....its time to retire it.

I had the SAME QUESTION.

answered.

Thanks!

 

[VaeVictus]

So much this. Although I'd go Amazon. I have not been happy with the HDMI cables I've gotten from monoprice.

That's too bad. I've been using them for some time now with no issue. I actually installed some equipment at various churches using their different cables and no issues have been reported.

 

[St. Geezy]

Just don't fall for the Monster branded scam. You can find good cables on monoprice.com that will pass 4K content.

Oh really? I have been very happy with my Monster brand.

What would you say is the difference? Are we talking price or quality?

 

[VaeVictus]

Oh really? I have been very happy with my Monster brand.

What would you say is the difference? Are we talking price or quality?

Monster cables are egregiously overpriced.

 

[landshadow]

Depends on your viewing distance and display size...

 

[Redjem]

FYI: Best Buy and Target have a 55 inch Samsung UHD 4k tv on sale for $499.99 right now. Great reviews!!! It was originally $899.99. Best Buy will give you financing options but if you buy from Target and use their Cartwheel app you get another 10% off then use Target's credit card you get another 5% off. A killer deal... $430.00 plus tax

 

[superchuck500]

Ditto. 60" Samsung 4K UHD. Love It! Seems to have so much more depth than the 1080P I had.

I have 4K as well and the depth/contrast is what you notice the most. DTV has a couple of 4K channels and I recently watched an NBA game in 4K. It was pretty amazing. The players seemed like they were somewhere between you and the back of the screen.

 

[LAhotsauce]

4k or not isn't the decision I'm stuck on. What I am stuck on is curve or no curve? I'm thinking it's onnly appealing for aesthetic reasons.

 

[superchuck500]

4k or not isn't the decision I'm stuck on. What I am stuck on is curve or no curve? I'm thinking it's onnly appealing for aesthetic reasons.

I like the clean lines of a new, thin bezel wall-mounted big screen. I never saw the appeal of the curve.

Apparently the manufacturers are moving on:

If you weren’t watching Samsung’s TV event and LG press conference you might have missed it. The curved TV, once considered the whizzbang tech that would save televisions, is dead. Not quite in the ground, but no longer the darling of its makers. The curved TV is being quietly shuffled away from the limelight to make way for newer, and better, fads in televisions.

Last night Samsung showed off its newest flagship television. The Q9 is gorgeous, compact for its size, and traffics all its inputs on a single cord about the width of fishing line. It is also painfully flat. The display does not curve in the slightest. This is very different from years past, where Samsung’s high end curved TVs were the star of Samsung’s show.

Flagship televisions tend to possess all the features that are most forward looking for a company. They’re intended to be incredible future-proof sets worth their $5000+ price tags. Televisions that will still wow your guests years after newer and better technology has come along.

Samsung reps told Gizmodo that the company still “believes” in curved TVs, and there’s a variant available in the more affordable Q7 and Q8 models. But the exclusion of a curved version in the flagship Q9 is a big deal.

Especially when you notice that LG is also leaving its curved sets by the wayside too. Instead its flagship OLED W7's biggest selling point is that it can be mounted practically flush to the wall. Panasonic also now on the straight and narrow. It’s second ever OLED TV, the EZ1002 is completely flat. Panasonic’s first OLED, the now two-year-old TX-65CZ952B, had a distinct curve.

So why are the curved TVs quietly being put to pasture? Sales numbers may be scarce, but practical experience with curved TVs isn’t. They’ve always been a shiny gimmick, despite what some people hoped. A curved set gives a person an incredible and immersive view when they’re sitting dead center, but the TV-watching experience is far less fabulous for anyone else in the room.

The Curved TV Gimmick Might Finally Be Dead

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Pulled the trigger on a LG brand 43 inch 4K, which was the compromise with my wife instead of the 55" OLED...

 

[VaeVictus]

4k or not isn't the decision I'm stuck on. What I am stuck on is curve or no curve? I'm thinking it's onnly appealing for aesthetic reasons.

I looked at curved and just didn't care for it. I like symmetry. My room is rectangular and the curved tv would throw that off, haha. Weird, I know.

 

[Yeti]

Only schmucks buy Monster cables.

 

[Wisco Steve]

For me it came down to SuHD or OLED (Samsung v LG)...granted this was for my main LVR TV. I opted for the cheaper SuHD and it is beautiful...

 

[St. Geezy]

Only schmucks buy Monster cables.

 

[Soundwave]

I have the Sony 4k and love it, but that LG OLED curved tv blew me away when I saw it at a friends