Dan.Scott1234
Active Member
Hi Everyone,
First post here in a long time! So... we're moving house soon and I'm thinking it may be time to bid a sad farewell to my faithful old friend, a Pioneer PDP-436XDE.
We've had it, I believe, through 15 years, 6 houses, 2 kids arriving, Freeview, Sky HD, Virgin Tivo, Sky Q, DVD and Blu Ray and loads of consoles and it's never put a foot wrong - it cost a pretty penny back in the day, but I'd rather buy well and buy once if that makes sense.
Over the years I've seen so many TV's at people's houses that look plain weird - odd colours, odd movement, and just looking 'fake', whilst our good ol' Pioneer always just looked right - so we forgave its sins of resolution, power consumption, slow UI and not being able to select a specific input via an OSD. Chromecasts have made it 'smart' and it's Freeview tuner hasn't been used in quite a long time!!
So.... what can replace the old girl? I think 65" or 55" at a push (see if I get a pass on 65 from the boss). There are so many I don't know where to start!! - my Wife saw the Samsung Frame's that took her fancy, however, I'm not sure if you're taking a big hit on the panel quality for the frame 'feature' - I'm also not sure if it has Freeview/Freesat, as I'm considering dropping SkyQ when we move as I just don't get the value from it as we mainly watch Netflix these days, so having an integrated tuner would be good.
Edit - I've also ordered a Sonos Arc as a moving house present to myself
So if whatever you recommend can play nicely with that for the HDMI ARC pallava, that would be greatly appreciated!
What do you think? Can you give me some models to narrow down the search? Thank you in advance for your help!!
First post here in a long time! So... we're moving house soon and I'm thinking it may be time to bid a sad farewell to my faithful old friend, a Pioneer PDP-436XDE.
We've had it, I believe, through 15 years, 6 houses, 2 kids arriving, Freeview, Sky HD, Virgin Tivo, Sky Q, DVD and Blu Ray and loads of consoles and it's never put a foot wrong - it cost a pretty penny back in the day, but I'd rather buy well and buy once if that makes sense.
Over the years I've seen so many TV's at people's houses that look plain weird - odd colours, odd movement, and just looking 'fake', whilst our good ol' Pioneer always just looked right - so we forgave its sins of resolution, power consumption, slow UI and not being able to select a specific input via an OSD. Chromecasts have made it 'smart' and it's Freeview tuner hasn't been used in quite a long time!!
So.... what can replace the old girl? I think 65" or 55" at a push (see if I get a pass on 65 from the boss). There are so many I don't know where to start!! - my Wife saw the Samsung Frame's that took her fancy, however, I'm not sure if you're taking a big hit on the panel quality for the frame 'feature' - I'm also not sure if it has Freeview/Freesat, as I'm considering dropping SkyQ when we move as I just don't get the value from it as we mainly watch Netflix these days, so having an integrated tuner would be good.
Edit - I've also ordered a Sonos Arc as a moving house present to myself
So if whatever you recommend can play nicely with that for the HDMI ARC pallava, that would be greatly appreciated!What do you think? Can you give me some models to narrow down the search? Thank you in advance for your help!!
