Hi all
Need some help and advise ( appreciate i'm not the first)
Looking buy a second but main TV for our living room, i'm a little bit of a luddite and am skeptical about the new fads in technology lasting - 3D, HDR etc, to me & my eyes 1080P is good enough and all I need.
I only want a 40" - 43" max so it doesn't dominate our room (personally not a fan of the TV being the main focus of the room) currently have an old 38" Sony that will go in the kids play room.
We will be sitting about 8 ft away from the tv so I don't think from what I have read even with a 43" tv we would see get any notable bonus in the increased resolution that the new 4K panels give.
Everything seems to be 4K these days, my problem is that I'm not too fussed about 4K content at the moment and am happy with FHD. We mainly watch SD Freeview (sad I know), sometimes HD Freeview, then Stream HD content via Netflix, Now Tv & the like, not 4K. Am slowly building up a Blu-Ray library too, so would be happy with just a stellar FHD TV.
I am a photographer, so I understand the upscaling process - upscaling is effectively adding pixels that surround the original pixel to increase the resolution - it does not improve the quality of the image as it's filling in the missing pixels with similar colours etc that surround it to give more resolution, so it's not making the image better, just blowing it up to fit the new resolution by filling in the missing gaps for want of a better word. So if I were to get a 4K TV then it would be playing with the content just to fit the screen resolution, often making it worse just to become forced 4K.
So it leaves me the question, is it still possible to get a kick ass excellent quality 40/43" Full HD TV these days that has the below?
My main criteria is:
1. Great Image quality for SD & FHD content (Freeview HD & Blu Ray)
2. Sound quality ( I know a lot of these flat panels have rubbish sound)
3. Apps - Freeview Play, etc etc
Someone said Sony are probably the best bet, but am sure there are people in the know here that can help please?
Many thanks in advance
Bussta
Need some help and advise ( appreciate i'm not the first)
Looking buy a second but main TV for our living room, i'm a little bit of a luddite and am skeptical about the new fads in technology lasting - 3D, HDR etc, to me & my eyes 1080P is good enough and all I need.
I only want a 40" - 43" max so it doesn't dominate our room (personally not a fan of the TV being the main focus of the room) currently have an old 38" Sony that will go in the kids play room.
We will be sitting about 8 ft away from the tv so I don't think from what I have read even with a 43" tv we would see get any notable bonus in the increased resolution that the new 4K panels give.
Everything seems to be 4K these days, my problem is that I'm not too fussed about 4K content at the moment and am happy with FHD. We mainly watch SD Freeview (sad I know), sometimes HD Freeview, then Stream HD content via Netflix, Now Tv & the like, not 4K. Am slowly building up a Blu-Ray library too, so would be happy with just a stellar FHD TV.
I am a photographer, so I understand the upscaling process - upscaling is effectively adding pixels that surround the original pixel to increase the resolution - it does not improve the quality of the image as it's filling in the missing pixels with similar colours etc that surround it to give more resolution, so it's not making the image better, just blowing it up to fit the new resolution by filling in the missing gaps for want of a better word. So if I were to get a 4K TV then it would be playing with the content just to fit the screen resolution, often making it worse just to become forced 4K.
So it leaves me the question, is it still possible to get a kick ass excellent quality 40/43" Full HD TV these days that has the below?
My main criteria is:
1. Great Image quality for SD & FHD content (Freeview HD & Blu Ray)
2. Sound quality ( I know a lot of these flat panels have rubbish sound)
3. Apps - Freeview Play, etc etc
Someone said Sony are probably the best bet, but am sure there are people in the know here that can help please?
Many thanks in advance
Bussta