Quick budget 43” TV options?

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Mother’s old TV has a white spot on it so from what I can tell it’s broken.

She’s looking around the £300 mark. I’ve never owned an LCD TV in my life (only plasma and then OLED, both Panasonic) so I’m fairly out of the loop. Getting a Panasonic might be helpful as I’m guessing the options/menu may be similar for those all important remote IT support calls Was thinking that or Samsung to support all the HDR types.

So either;

Panasonic TB-43W61AEY​

Or

Samsung UE43U8000F​

At a first glance? She’s not sure the legs for the Samsung will fit on her stand - so that’s another point to the Panasonic. Anything else out there we should be considering? It’ll be used with Virgin TV (probably not even a UHD sub but whatever )

TIA

 

[jklc]

I'm not sure how similar Panasonic TVs are but Samsung were fairly consistent and it made a transition easy when helping older relatives upgrade. Any HDR or fancy 4K features were of course lost on them and they were just happy to have a decent working TV again.

 

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Something like a HiSense or LG, from Richer Sounds with a bonus 6 year warranty fail safe? Most on there are 1 year but RS give you an extra 5 years.
Or failing that John Lewis do something similar, but with 5 years warranty.

 

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Something like a HiSense or LG, from Richer Sounds with a bonus 6 year warranty fail safe? Most on there are 1 year but RS give you an extra 5 years.
Or failing that John Lewis do something similar, but with 5 years warranty.

Yeah when you don't care about the quality of the set I guess it's best to include a guarantee. Definitely buying from JL or RS.

I noticed just now that the Panasonic sets (W61, and W80) don't actually have 4k upscaling. Is that gonna mean content on her HD Virgin sub is gonna look fairly terrible?