TheCaptainsLog
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Hi All
This is my first post and follows a lot of reading about the best TV’s to buy, including Dodgexander’s excellent posts.
My father, who’s in his 70’s, has an 8 year old LG 32” TV at the moment. He watches in a quite bright room during the day but usually with minimal lighting in the evening. He sits directly in front of the TV and about 8 – 10 feet away. I think other seats in the room (which are rarely used) are at about 30 to 45 degree off straight-on viewing. Daylight comes into the room to the right of his TV but the TV is angled away from the window and he could close the blinds if it's an issue.
He watches some streaming channels – NOW, Prime, BT Sport (mostly rugby, cricket and baseball), all via a BT 4K box – and Freeview (mostly SD). I think it’s unlikely he’ll upgrade to a BT box that will handle HDR unless BT release the new STB to everyone FOC (v. unlikely)
The problem he has with his TV now is that, due to deteriorating eyesight (although this has improved after a couple of cataract ops), he finds some content difficult to see, primarily because it’s too small – so, he’s looking for a bigger TV. I measured the space available and he’s got room for up to 50”.
From reading the various posts on here, I don’t think OLED is suitable for him and top-tier would probably be wasted if he’s not using HDR. I suppose then my questions are:
Thanks in advance
This is my first post and follows a lot of reading about the best TV’s to buy, including Dodgexander’s excellent posts.
My father, who’s in his 70’s, has an 8 year old LG 32” TV at the moment. He watches in a quite bright room during the day but usually with minimal lighting in the evening. He sits directly in front of the TV and about 8 – 10 feet away. I think other seats in the room (which are rarely used) are at about 30 to 45 degree off straight-on viewing. Daylight comes into the room to the right of his TV but the TV is angled away from the window and he could close the blinds if it's an issue.
He watches some streaming channels – NOW, Prime, BT Sport (mostly rugby, cricket and baseball), all via a BT 4K box – and Freeview (mostly SD). I think it’s unlikely he’ll upgrade to a BT box that will handle HDR unless BT release the new STB to everyone FOC (v. unlikely)
The problem he has with his TV now is that, due to deteriorating eyesight (although this has improved after a couple of cataract ops), he finds some content difficult to see, primarily because it’s too small – so, he’s looking for a bigger TV. I measured the space available and he’s got room for up to 50”.
From reading the various posts on here, I don’t think OLED is suitable for him and top-tier would probably be wasted if he’s not using HDR. I suppose then my questions are:
- If he can’t access HDR, are lower cost or smaller TV’s going to look odd? By that I mean, does a lack of HDR capability affect the image of ordinary content?
- What would be a good TV at that size for him on the basis of his use described above?
Thanks in advance