New TV!

i’m serious about this, about my excitement, i’m not even embarrassed about it

My 50” Samsung frame tv arrived today and I’m also unabashedly excited. Thanks for reviving this thread, now I can bookmark it for all my dumb questions, since I haven’t had a tv in 8 years. I think slaxxor got me mostly sorted with good advice, though.

how much did that run you?

Like $950 plus $75 for the frame. I think the 55” was about $450 more. The 50” is good size IMO - good size for a bit more of a cinematic experience without being overwhelmingly large in a small space. We initially looked at the 43” but when I measured it out it was just too small.

Normally wouldn’t be comfortable spending this much at this time but we don’t have any debt apart from my nz student loans so we financed it interest-free

no shame! genuinely just curious

this frame tvs are really amazing looking tbh

The sound quality is better than I expected. Not in any hurry to buy additional audio for it. The first thing we watched a was streaming rental in ultra hd and it sort of blurry?? Like my glasses prescription wasn’t strong enough. Idk it seemed like the problem was my eyes not the screen.

is it possible there’s some motion smoothing shenanigans that are still switched on?

No I think it was the ultra hd because I watched something on Netflix today and it was clear. The ultra hd option on the rental def took some filter off - it wasn’t motion smoothing but it looked a little too… real?

Ok it was def the tv. We watched Nobody last night and it was cringey bc of the lack of visual atmosphere. Got into settings, which has a bunch of presets for picture, and it was on “dynamic”. Switched to “filmmaker mode” - huuuuuge improvement. The text is still blurry to look at so I’m gonna figure out how to fix that today.

The sound quality is better than I expected. A sound bar would be nice, but as a luxury upgrade rather than a necessity for enjoying using the tv.

"The sound quality is better than I expected. Not in any hurry to buy additional audio for it."

glad to hear this!

a quick Google will almost always find you a pathway to the menu option you need to turn off, the real pain is after an update you might need to do it all again but other than that it's a one and done kind of task

our LG has those modes too, after I turned off motion smoothing and all that I still switch between modes to get the right result at times (there's a sport one that makes everything look like a video game from 2012, that one I don't use)

The remote is great - charges by usb or ✨indoor light✨no batteries!

my 11-year-old vizio set just died ;_;

i finally did it. after about 8 years of waiting for an OLED that would fit in my living room LG went and fucking made one and i have fucking ordered it.

Ooh which one? I'm planning to get one of those -- the LG OLED C2 42"

that's it

it will replace a 26" Toshiba Regza that i bought in 2006 which tbf still works like a champ, dodgy remote aside

it will JUST about squeeze into the only spot in the living room big enough for it and i'm stoked for the madness

i was motivated by my experience this summer of being able to cast things from my phone to the TV in the airbnb we stayed in. it was like magic. Now that the PS4 MLB app appears to be completely fucked i was having to unplug the HDMI cable from the PS4 and plug it into my laptop to watch the game. humiliating for a man of my age i think you'll agree. the other thing is that over the years on-screen graphics have drifted smaller and smaller, in games and for sports, to the point that it's pretty hard to read some of it on a 26". but i mean yeah... the main thing is, let's not beat around the bush... New TV

we have a pretty terrific 32" flatscreen from 2010 that still looks great and does a bang-up job on breath of the wild

we're getting a new TV because, why not, and because our toddler seems like she's finally over the "randomly pulling heavy objects off the wall" stage of toddlerhood

that's kinda pricey still, but i always forget they last about 10 years and i'm sat in front of one 10 hours a day.

no scart or component in though, is that how tvs are these days? is my ps2 obsolete (not to mention the n64) because i can't plug it into anything

It is kind of ridiculous. twice the price of an LCD twice its size.. but I have been waiting patiently for an OLED for years. I hope it will last at least 10 years. my living room certainly won't be getting any bigger lol. It does not have component or scart sadly.

(the article i found listed the 48" price fwiw, which didn't help)

they are not dissimilar. in fact i think in the US they're literally the same price. i found a john lewis discount (now expired i believe) which put it at less than a grand.

it's here :O

Today I was able to get the LG remote to control my Yamaha receiver's volume. This receiver is 25 years old. I find this incredible. So now I've got one remote for everything. TV audio piped into the receiver via optical, and out to three Elac speakers. The only thing slightly weird about it is that if I listen to Spotify or Sounds via the TV the sound comes out pretty loud out of the centre speaker, but, well, listening to music on a TV is pretty weird anyway.

i am doing it now, because timed recordings on the pvr of late night radio is easier than anything else. utter waste of energy though.

(radio 6 is louder than normal tv, radio 3 is the same as tv. optimod...)

More aggressive compression on 6M I think, which the vocal R3 audiophiles wouldn’t stand for.

koogs why not eat the dog food and just use Sounds to catch up on like… Benji B or whatever?

is the dog food vegetarian?

i'm on 3g, so have always had more pvr space than bandwidth. (he says with 140 unheard episodes of front row taking up space)

And no broadband? koogs! I never knew the digital divide extended quite so far!

I've been in a vacation rental without internet for a week and omg, cheap TVs are terrible to watch and so is actual TV when you don't have any streaming/iPlayer etc. I tried to switch of all the motion fiddling settings and it still looked horrible.
Hopefully we won't need a new TV for a while - drove quite a way to get the last decent plasma one we could find, probably around 8 years ago tho.

New nice TVs at a reasonable price are among the best buys for the buck. It's the age of miracles.

Literally a couple of months into the pandemic my flatscreen fritzed and I ordered a new one thinking it would be a replacement, but it ended up being even bigger, which, thanks. (55" Vizio) Combined that with a new Sony 4K/Bluray player with modifications to play all BD regions and will never look back.

How’s the sound from the tv speaker? (I don’t use external speakers as I have haring damage and I always find them too abrasive.)

From mine? Quite good I think!

My setup is upthread. TV speaker is permanently off. I have optical out to a 3.0 system and it sounds great. The centre speaker changes a lot. Before I just had R and L and everything went through those. Now with a centre speaker the R and L become more kind of ambient atmospheric sources (i’m guessing what would be coming out of rear speakers is getting mixed into them since I have no rear speakers? Or possibly I’m just losing that rear speaker information. I’ve never been clear on that)