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I am looking to buy a new TV and I'm kinda confused at all the options. I know some of you are TV buffs here, so I hope you guys will know more on these things. 1) LED vs LCD. What's the deal here? The LED models seem to be much pricier for the same TV size. To be safe should I go with an LED model? 2) 46, 52 or 55? 46 inch TVs are half the price of 55 inch TVs. 52 inch TVs seem to be rare these days (compared to 46 and 55). Is it worth spending double the cost to get the larger TV? 3) Samsung vs Sony. Two of my friends have strongly recommended that I get a Samsung. Is this the general consensus too? 4) Internet enabled TVs. Why should I get one of these? What will I lose if my TV does not have a LAN point? BTW I don't think I want a 3D TV so I am not looking for those. Thanks to everyone who has any advice/suggestions for me.
Regards, Nish
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- Plasma 2) Viewing distance? 3) Panasonic (thought it cannot play MP3 from media server) 4) DLNA - nothing's better than having access to your movie/TV show collection stored on media server using a single button on remote control
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
- LED vs LCD. What's the deal here? The LED models seem to be much pricier for the same TV size. To be safe should I go with an LED model?
Beyond a point, it all becomes vague. Play the same video on an LED and an LCD tv. If you can't make out any difference, then go with the cheaper one.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
- 46, 52 or 55? 46 inch TVs are half the price of 55 inch TVs. 52 inch TVs seem to be rare these days (compared to 46 and 55). Is it worth spending double the cost to get the larger TV?
What Max said.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
- Samsung vs Sony. Two of my friends have strongly recommended that I get a Samsung. Is this the general consensus too?
Samsung it is. If there are no options other than Samsung or Sony, I'd go without a tv. Sony has to pay me to buy their stuff.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
- Internet enabled TVs. Why should I get one of these?
If you don't know why shouldn't you get one of those, then you shouldn't be spending more money to have that useless "feature".
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Samsung it is. If there are no options other than Samsung or Sony, I'd go without a tv. Sony has to pay me to buy their stuff.
Thanks, I am 99% decided on Samsung now!
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
If you don't know why shouldn't you get one of those, then you shouldn't be spending more money to have that useless "feature".
Well after I buy the TV I don't want to find out that I can't add some new cool feature because my TV does not support it.
Regards, Nish
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- Plasma 2) Viewing distance? 3) Panasonic (thought it cannot play MP3 from media server) 4) DLNA - nothing's better than having access to your movie/TV show collection stored on media server using a single button on remote control
Thanks Mladen!
Regards, Nish
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I am looking to buy a new TV and I'm kinda confused at all the options. I know some of you are TV buffs here, so I hope you guys will know more on these things. 1) LED vs LCD. What's the deal here? The LED models seem to be much pricier for the same TV size. To be safe should I go with an LED model? 2) 46, 52 or 55? 46 inch TVs are half the price of 55 inch TVs. 52 inch TVs seem to be rare these days (compared to 46 and 55). Is it worth spending double the cost to get the larger TV? 3) Samsung vs Sony. Two of my friends have strongly recommended that I get a Samsung. Is this the general consensus too? 4) Internet enabled TVs. Why should I get one of these? What will I lose if my TV does not have a LAN point? BTW I don't think I want a 3D TV so I am not looking for those. Thanks to everyone who has any advice/suggestions for me.
Regards, Nish
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Why do you want a TV? You can watch everything there is to watch on your PC - and as a bonus your 1-hour movies/series won't be stretched to 3 hours with loud ads, you can watch/pause whenever you want without also buying a recorder
David1987 wrote:
Why do you want a TV? You can watch everything there is to watch on your PC - and as a bonus your 1-hour movies/series won't be stretched to 3 hours with loud ads, you can watch/pause whenever you want without also buying a recorder
I want a large screen. And TVs are cheaper and have larger screens than computer monitors! :-)
Regards, Nish
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Samsung it is. If there are no options other than Samsung or Sony, I'd go without a tv. Sony has to pay me to buy their stuff.
Thanks, I am 99% decided on Samsung now!
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
If you don't know why shouldn't you get one of those, then you shouldn't be spending more money to have that useless "feature".
Well after I buy the TV I don't want to find out that I can't add some new cool feature because my TV does not support it.
Regards, Nish
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Well after I buy the TV I don't want to find out that I can't add some new cool feature because my TV does not support it.
You just want to convince yourself to buy an "internet tv". Been there, done that many times with many gadgets. :)
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Well after I buy the TV I don't want to find out that I can't add some new cool feature because my TV does not support it.
You just want to convince yourself to buy an "internet tv". Been there, done that many times with many gadgets. :)
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
Not really. I already convinced myself NOT to buy a 3D TV, and I am looking for reasons not to buy an Internet enabled TV. Problem is I am not very tech-savvy so I have not kept myself up to date with TV and video enhancements. I am the total non-geek when it comes to non-computer electronics.
Regards, Nish
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I am looking to buy a new TV and I'm kinda confused at all the options. I know some of you are TV buffs here, so I hope you guys will know more on these things. 1) LED vs LCD. What's the deal here? The LED models seem to be much pricier for the same TV size. To be safe should I go with an LED model? 2) 46, 52 or 55? 46 inch TVs are half the price of 55 inch TVs. 52 inch TVs seem to be rare these days (compared to 46 and 55). Is it worth spending double the cost to get the larger TV? 3) Samsung vs Sony. Two of my friends have strongly recommended that I get a Samsung. Is this the general consensus too? 4) Internet enabled TVs. Why should I get one of these? What will I lose if my TV does not have a LAN point? BTW I don't think I want a 3D TV so I am not looking for those. Thanks to everyone who has any advice/suggestions for me.
Regards, Nish
Most recent article : Adding data-bindable attributes to C# enums using the dynamic runtime My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
LED vs LCD
LED has much better contrast but it's also a matter of opinion. To my eye the colours in LED display are even too "rich". One downside in LED TV's to me was the extremely poor quality of sound. Because the TV's aro so thin there's not much space for the speakers resulting to lack of lower frequencies and (again a matter of opinion) to irritating sound. So in my opinion additional (active) speakers are needed with LED TV's.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
46, 52 or 55?
Depends on the distance. A good role of thumb is that for a 16:9 television the distance should be 4-6 times the height of the display. Remember that the height is relevant in wide screen tv's, not the diagonal as it used to be in 4:3 tv's
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Samsung vs Sony
Oh well, as many opinions as persons. I'm a Sony person but that's just me. Most likely I prefer Sony because of historical reasons (they used to be superior when comparing to other brands).
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Internet enabled TVs
Are you going to use Internet from the TV, directly rent movies etc. I didn't choose one of these since the TV is more of a display to me and I have other devices handling the connections, for example PC. Then I share and stream the necessary data to the TV. Also one point of view is the security. I believe that the security aspect isn't handled well yet in Internet TV's. (think about security patches for example). When I last bought a tv I listed all the things I wanted and then divided them into two categories: necessities and nice-to-have. Then I went to see different products, prices etc (this lasted for few weeks) and the most important thing I did was that after this I stopped thinking about the TV for a while. You could call it a cool-down period. This was useful since after that my decision was more reasonable, based on real needs than based on marketing materials, cool new technological innovations etc etc. Best regards, mika
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
LED vs LCD
LED has much better contrast but it's also a matter of opinion. To my eye the colours in LED display are even too "rich". One downside in LED TV's to me was the extremely poor quality of sound. Because the TV's aro so thin there's not much space for the speakers resulting to lack of lower frequencies and (again a matter of opinion) to irritating sound. So in my opinion additional (active) speakers are needed with LED TV's.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
46, 52 or 55?
Depends on the distance. A good role of thumb is that for a 16:9 television the distance should be 4-6 times the height of the display. Remember that the height is relevant in wide screen tv's, not the diagonal as it used to be in 4:3 tv's
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Samsung vs Sony
Oh well, as many opinions as persons. I'm a Sony person but that's just me. Most likely I prefer Sony because of historical reasons (they used to be superior when comparing to other brands).
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Internet enabled TVs
Are you going to use Internet from the TV, directly rent movies etc. I didn't choose one of these since the TV is more of a display to me and I have other devices handling the connections, for example PC. Then I share and stream the necessary data to the TV. Also one point of view is the security. I believe that the security aspect isn't handled well yet in Internet TV's. (think about security patches for example). When I last bought a tv I listed all the things I wanted and then divided them into two categories: necessities and nice-to-have. Then I went to see different products, prices etc (this lasted for few weeks) and the most important thing I did was that after this I stopped thinking about the TV for a while. You could call it a cool-down period. This was useful since after that my decision was more reasonable, based on real needs than based on marketing materials, cool new technological innovations etc etc. Best regards, mika
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Thank you, Mika, very helpful!
Mika Wendelius wrote:
Remember that the height is relevant in wide screen tv's, not the diagonal as it used to be in 4:3 tv's
What is this so?
Regards, Nish
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I am looking to buy a new TV and I'm kinda confused at all the options. I know some of you are TV buffs here, so I hope you guys will know more on these things. 1) LED vs LCD. What's the deal here? The LED models seem to be much pricier for the same TV size. To be safe should I go with an LED model? 2) 46, 52 or 55? 46 inch TVs are half the price of 55 inch TVs. 52 inch TVs seem to be rare these days (compared to 46 and 55). Is it worth spending double the cost to get the larger TV? 3) Samsung vs Sony. Two of my friends have strongly recommended that I get a Samsung. Is this the general consensus too? 4) Internet enabled TVs. Why should I get one of these? What will I lose if my TV does not have a LAN point? BTW I don't think I want a 3D TV so I am not looking for those. Thanks to everyone who has any advice/suggestions for me.
Regards, Nish
Most recent article : Adding data-bindable attributes to C# enums using the dynamic runtime My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
First, Samsung over Sony. Samsung have had a few HDMI hotplug issues but Sony are generally losing market share for various reasons. LED backlighting provides better colour since the CFL backlighting doesn't have as even a spectrum. Size - depends on viewing distance. at 3.5 metres my 58" TV is just about right but 63" would be spot on, work back from there for the eye-TV distance. This is a nicety though, don't stress about it. 3D - yup, not that good and not much content. Internet connectivity - getting there, things such as Netflix are making it worthwhile, even Skype.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
- LED vs LCD. What's the deal here? The LED models seem to be much pricier for the same TV size. To be safe should I go with an LED model?
LED is considered superior IIRC, the picture is much clearer. LEDs emit light and when they are off they are off, whereas the LCDs block light coming through (but not 100%) so the contrast ratio is higher in LED TVs. I *think* they have a better lifespan too, but don't quote me on that.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
- Samsung vs Sony. Two of my friends have strongly recommended that I get a Samsung. Is this the general consensus too?
Samsung, even if to avoid Sony's customer care.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
BTW I don't think I want a 3D TV so I am not looking for those
Call yourself a techhie :-)!
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First, Samsung over Sony. Samsung have had a few HDMI hotplug issues but Sony are generally losing market share for various reasons. LED backlighting provides better colour since the CFL backlighting doesn't have as even a spectrum. Size - depends on viewing distance. at 3.5 metres my 58" TV is just about right but 63" would be spot on, work back from there for the eye-TV distance. This is a nicety though, don't stress about it. 3D - yup, not that good and not much content. Internet connectivity - getting there, things such as Netflix are making it worthwhile, even Skype.
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Thanks Elaine!
Regards, Nish
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Samsung it is. If there are no options other than Samsung or Sony, I'd go without a tv. Sony has to pay me to buy their stuff.
Thanks, I am 99% decided on Samsung now!
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
If you don't know why shouldn't you get one of those, then you shouldn't be spending more money to have that useless "feature".
Well after I buy the TV I don't want to find out that I can't add some new cool feature because my TV does not support it.
Regards, Nish
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Panasonic are a bit nicer but more expensive.
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Thank you, Mika, very helpful!
Mika Wendelius wrote:
Remember that the height is relevant in wide screen tv's, not the diagonal as it used to be in 4:3 tv's
What is this so?
Regards, Nish
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Mika Wendelius wrote:
Remember that the height is relevant in wide screen tv's, not the diagonal as
it used to be in 4:3 tv'sWhat is this so?
Sorry, mainly it was bad english :) What I mean is that in 4:3 televisions the optimal viewing distance was defined by the distance from lower left corner to upper right corner. This lenght was typically multiplied by 3 or 4 to get the optimal distance. In 16:9 televisions this is not reasonable anymore since the width falsely dominates this kind of calculation. So the important measure is the height of the tv panel. If I have understood correctly the optimal viewing distance is 4 to 6 times the height of the panel. Oh, and one more opinion. Most likely you won't buy too large tv. For a month or two after buying a new one it seems very big but after half a year you cannot understand how were you able to ever watch the smaller tv... So it comes back to price/quality -ratio (including expectations :)).
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Mika Wendelius wrote:
Remember that the height is relevant in wide screen tv's, not the diagonal as
it used to be in 4:3 tv'sWhat is this so?
Sorry, mainly it was bad english :) What I mean is that in 4:3 televisions the optimal viewing distance was defined by the distance from lower left corner to upper right corner. This lenght was typically multiplied by 3 or 4 to get the optimal distance. In 16:9 televisions this is not reasonable anymore since the width falsely dominates this kind of calculation. So the important measure is the height of the tv panel. If I have understood correctly the optimal viewing distance is 4 to 6 times the height of the panel. Oh, and one more opinion. Most likely you won't buy too large tv. For a month or two after buying a new one it seems very big but after half a year you cannot understand how were you able to ever watch the smaller tv... So it comes back to price/quality -ratio (including expectations :)).
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Thank you Mika, that was very helpful! :thumbsup:
Regards, Nish
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I am looking to buy a new TV and I'm kinda confused at all the options. I know some of you are TV buffs here, so I hope you guys will know more on these things. 1) LED vs LCD. What's the deal here? The LED models seem to be much pricier for the same TV size. To be safe should I go with an LED model? 2) 46, 52 or 55? 46 inch TVs are half the price of 55 inch TVs. 52 inch TVs seem to be rare these days (compared to 46 and 55). Is it worth spending double the cost to get the larger TV? 3) Samsung vs Sony. Two of my friends have strongly recommended that I get a Samsung. Is this the general consensus too? 4) Internet enabled TVs. Why should I get one of these? What will I lose if my TV does not have a LAN point? BTW I don't think I want a 3D TV so I am not looking for those. Thanks to everyone who has any advice/suggestions for me.
Regards, Nish
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- LED provide there own light, LCD require a backlight, Don't rule out plasma yet! Above 50" for fast action and Movies, plasma is still supposedly better. 2) The bigger the better, you can never have a big enough telly, trust me, I just love mine and went from the 50 to 63". 3) I think samsung is better. 4) Not if you don't want to, however, they are coming with the likes of LoveFilm etc, so you can stream movies direct on demand. Also you can use BBC iPlayer etc, and watch TV shows via youtube (YT are also rumoured to start streaming movies also soon on PPV). You can also steam movies etc from home media servers. Samsungs do a wireless usb dongle for Wifi. 3DTV again, not a necessity, but after playing Call Of Duty Black Ops in 3D, hell yeah! Now, technology moves so quickly, when i bought mine, i didn't go for latest and greatest, but it does have internet and 3D and is full HD, but in a few years there will be QuadHD, Glasses free 3D and god knows what else. One thing to check is what tuner it has, e.g. in the UK, if you want to get free HD Freeview Content, then it must have a DVB-T2 tuner, standard non-hd freeview is DVB-T. So, i would say, the biggest that will look ok in the space you, make sure it is 1080p HD, has an HD Tuner, and don't rule out plasma! Here's mine: linky[^] And it arriving, and going up on the wall: linky[^]
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- LED provide there own light, LCD require a backlight, Don't rule out plasma yet! Above 50" for fast action and Movies, plasma is still supposedly better. 2) The bigger the better, you can never have a big enough telly, trust me, I just love mine and went from the 50 to 63". 3) I think samsung is better. 4) Not if you don't want to, however, they are coming with the likes of LoveFilm etc, so you can stream movies direct on demand. Also you can use BBC iPlayer etc, and watch TV shows via youtube (YT are also rumoured to start streaming movies also soon on PPV). You can also steam movies etc from home media servers. Samsungs do a wireless usb dongle for Wifi. 3DTV again, not a necessity, but after playing Call Of Duty Black Ops in 3D, hell yeah! Now, technology moves so quickly, when i bought mine, i didn't go for latest and greatest, but it does have internet and 3D and is full HD, but in a few years there will be QuadHD, Glasses free 3D and god knows what else. One thing to check is what tuner it has, e.g. in the UK, if you want to get free HD Freeview Content, then it must have a DVB-T2 tuner, standard non-hd freeview is DVB-T. So, i would say, the biggest that will look ok in the space you, make sure it is 1080p HD, has an HD Tuner, and don't rule out plasma! Here's mine: linky[^] And it arriving, and going up on the wall: linky[^]
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Dave - 'so called' LED TVs are LCD TVs with LED backlight. The ones called LCD TVs are LCD TVs with cold cathode fluourescent backlights (CCFL, often abbrivated to CFL). There are no true LED TVs in production unfortunately, they would be nice. We have a C7000 at work and the only problem is that sometimes it doesn't detect HDMI devices being plugged in while active, this is a known issue.
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- LED provide there own light, LCD require a backlight, Don't rule out plasma yet! Above 50" for fast action and Movies, plasma is still supposedly better. 2) The bigger the better, you can never have a big enough telly, trust me, I just love mine and went from the 50 to 63". 3) I think samsung is better. 4) Not if you don't want to, however, they are coming with the likes of LoveFilm etc, so you can stream movies direct on demand. Also you can use BBC iPlayer etc, and watch TV shows via youtube (YT are also rumoured to start streaming movies also soon on PPV). You can also steam movies etc from home media servers. Samsungs do a wireless usb dongle for Wifi. 3DTV again, not a necessity, but after playing Call Of Duty Black Ops in 3D, hell yeah! Now, technology moves so quickly, when i bought mine, i didn't go for latest and greatest, but it does have internet and 3D and is full HD, but in a few years there will be QuadHD, Glasses free 3D and god knows what else. One thing to check is what tuner it has, e.g. in the UK, if you want to get free HD Freeview Content, then it must have a DVB-T2 tuner, standard non-hd freeview is DVB-T. So, i would say, the biggest that will look ok in the space you, make sure it is 1080p HD, has an HD Tuner, and don't rule out plasma! Here's mine: linky[^] And it arriving, and going up on the wall: linky[^]
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Thank you Dave, that was very helpful!
Regards, Nish
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
- LED vs LCD. What's the deal here? The LED models seem to be much pricier for the same TV size. To be safe should I go with an LED model?
Beyond a point, it all becomes vague. Play the same video on an LED and an LCD tv. If you can't make out any difference, then go with the cheaper one.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
- 46, 52 or 55? 46 inch TVs are half the price of 55 inch TVs. 52 inch TVs seem to be rare these days (compared to 46 and 55). Is it worth spending double the cost to get the larger TV?
What Max said.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
- Samsung vs Sony. Two of my friends have strongly recommended that I get a Samsung. Is this the general consensus too?
Samsung it is. If there are no options other than Samsung or Sony, I'd go without a tv. Sony has to pay me to buy their stuff.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
- Internet enabled TVs. Why should I get one of these?
If you don't know why shouldn't you get one of those, then you shouldn't be spending more money to have that useless "feature".
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
If you don't know why shouldn't you get one of those, then you shouldn't be spending more money to have that useless "feature".
I'd much rather have TV with LAN and without HDMI then the other way around. It's far from useless.
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Dave - 'so called' LED TVs are LCD TVs with LED backlight. The ones called LCD TVs are LCD TVs with cold cathode fluourescent backlights (CCFL, often abbrivated to CFL). There are no true LED TVs in production unfortunately, they would be nice. We have a C7000 at work and the only problem is that sometimes it doesn't detect HDMI devices being plugged in while active, this is a known issue.
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