Hello TV Gurus,
I was round my Dad's at the weekend and realised he needed a new TV, he's on an old BEKO HD Ready 32WLA520HD, which buzzes and needs a set top box to watch TV through it. He's a pensioner and can't really afford one, so I was thinking of giving him my current one and updating mine. Giving him mine would be a huge upgrade.
I currently have a Samsung UE40KU6020, which has served us well the past five years. The HDR has never been great and I've found it pretty slow. The picture can be a bit bandy on dark gradients. We have a sound bar directly in front of it, just at the right height not to block the screen.
Plugged in to it I currently have a PS5, Apple TV and a Sonos Beam (down to the helpful advice I got here!).
We watch Netflix, Prime, Disney+ and all the terrestrial catch up services. I have an Apple infrastructure at home and the Airplay function, I see the Samsung has, does appeal to me.
I started looking today, and I'd be happy with another Samsung, but I got bamboozled with all the different models around at the moment. At the moment I've got a UE43AU9000, UE43AU8000 & UE43AU7110 all sitting in my basket and can't see much difference between them. There were more, but I just got confused! I think I prefer the stand of the AU8000 because I saw a video which demonstrated that you can use two height settings (so the beam doesn't block the screen).
I read the Tizen OS is one of the best TV operating systems, and I was watching some videos about the upscaling which seemed impressive.
I'm not averse to a Sony, the TV we had before this was a Sony (which now sits in a spare room) and whilst none of the apps work any more, it's got an Apple TV plugged into it and picture is still great. I see some good comments here about Hisense but I don't think they have the apps/functionality I want.
I'm not mounting it, and live in a smallish house, so anything bigger would look a bit out of place.
Hope I've not been too specific with this long message, and some can offer some sagely insight!
Cheers
I was round my Dad's at the weekend and realised he needed a new TV, he's on an old BEKO HD Ready 32WLA520HD, which buzzes and needs a set top box to watch TV through it. He's a pensioner and can't really afford one, so I was thinking of giving him my current one and updating mine. Giving him mine would be a huge upgrade.
I currently have a Samsung UE40KU6020, which has served us well the past five years. The HDR has never been great and I've found it pretty slow. The picture can be a bit bandy on dark gradients. We have a sound bar directly in front of it, just at the right height not to block the screen.
Plugged in to it I currently have a PS5, Apple TV and a Sonos Beam (down to the helpful advice I got here!).
We watch Netflix, Prime, Disney+ and all the terrestrial catch up services. I have an Apple infrastructure at home and the Airplay function, I see the Samsung has, does appeal to me.
I started looking today, and I'd be happy with another Samsung, but I got bamboozled with all the different models around at the moment. At the moment I've got a UE43AU9000, UE43AU8000 & UE43AU7110 all sitting in my basket and can't see much difference between them. There were more, but I just got confused! I think I prefer the stand of the AU8000 because I saw a video which demonstrated that you can use two height settings (so the beam doesn't block the screen).
I read the Tizen OS is one of the best TV operating systems, and I was watching some videos about the upscaling which seemed impressive.
I'm not averse to a Sony, the TV we had before this was a Sony (which now sits in a spare room) and whilst none of the apps work any more, it's got an Apple TV plugged into it and picture is still great. I see some good comments here about Hisense but I don't think they have the apps/functionality I want.
I'm not mounting it, and live in a smallish house, so anything bigger would look a bit out of place.
Hope I've not been too specific with this long message, and some can offer some sagely insight!
Cheers