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The LED, UHD, Plasma, LCD Debate

For the price of that TV you could build a kick ass home theater, with a projector, all the audio equipment, furniture, and everything else you would need.
 
My internet isn't nearly fast enough for me to buy one of these, but it looks pretty cool.

Nvidia Shield Android TV
 
I found the Shield very limited... but I'm not a gamer.

We have a 65" Samsung 4K UHD 3DTV and it is phenomenal. The glasses are ultra-lightweight, hold a great charge, and the visuals are flat-out stunning.
 
Okay,We have all 4 types of tv's in our house.
To start out,We all know how tube tv's look and the resolution.Was great in there old days.
Our room mate has a Panasonic Viera 55" 720p Plasma,It looks okay.
Plus I have had LCD tv's too,And they look good,But not very good for Computer gaming.
Now,I and the wife have LED tv's,All 3 of our LEDS are 32",Wife's LED tv is a Vizio 720p.
I have 2 Sharp LED 108op,And I use one for a Computer monitor and it works great and has a pretty fast response time,Plus LEDS look great.
So I vote for LEDS.
 
So, this just happened.
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Mother in laws TV broke, and my wife suggested we give her ours and get the one I want. Mine was 2 year old 55" Sammy LED 120hz, more than adequate.

I even tried to talk them into a 40 ish inch new one for them for 300 bucks. But no, they figured this was best. So I said screw it. $1199.99 at Best Buy. And it looks glorious, especially the 10 things on Netflix 4k content :D :cool:
 
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Mother in laws TV broke, and my wife suggested we give her ours and get the one I want. Mine was 2 year old 55" Sammy LED 120hz, more than adequate.

I even tried to talk them into a 40 ish inch new one for them for 300 bucks. But no, they figured this was best. So I said screw it. $1199.99 at Best Buy. And it looks glorious, especially the 10 things on Netflix 4k content :D :cool:
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Congrats! Too bad you couldn't have waited for the Black Friday deals on Amazon. They had some big discounts last year.
 
I've just given my Panasonic 42" plasma a new lease of life by getting a PVR with HD tuners. All the main channels now in glorious 1080.
 
A PVR is something I've never even considered buying, and not seen them much here anyway. Frankly there's nothing on live TV I would actually want to record. The TV I've got is not online, however it does have USB ports, so I download TV shows and movies using the laptop, and then plug the USB thumb-drives into the TV to watch, or use my Win 10 tablet via HDMI for watching streamed online. Last time I actually recorded a TV show or movie, was on VHS! LOL
 
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mikedt said:
A PVR is something I've never even considered buying, and not seen them much here anyway. Frankly there's nothing on live TV I would actually want to record. The TV I've got is not online, however it does have USB ports, so I download TV shows and movies using the laptop, and then plug the USB thumb-drives into the TV to watch, or use my Win 10 tablet via HDMI for watching streamed online. Last time I actually recorded a TV show or movie, was on VHS! LOL
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It's true there is precious little actually worth recording on terrestrial TV. But we don't have Sky, and the kids like to record Frasier and stuff on the CBBC channel. Plus you can build up a nice library of films.
The other main advantage is being able to pause/rewind live TV when you go off and make a cuppa.
 
EarlyMon said:
You haven't lived until you try Netflix on a Samsung Smart TV, have it stop you because it *needs* to update, fails, and you have to go delete however many apps until it works.

Chromecast is the ultimate Netflix delivery method.
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No. You always try to clear the cache first.
 
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