£300 budjet

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My friend has a max £300 to spend on a decent TV....any ideas?

Prob around 43"

They watch general tv stuff, movies and playstation on it.

Any help would be awesome as their old tv just went kaput...thanks
 
I'd go for a Hisense 43E7NQTUK.

It has Dolby Vision, which will massively help with watching any HDR movies or shows plus it has Freely built in.

It's only 60Hz but that'll be fine for the Playstation as it also has a game mode with low latency and a variable refresh rate.
 
If they want a larger screen/compromising on the QLED panel then there's a 50-inch version (£279) and 55-inch version (£309) at the rainforest place with similar features but both are regular UHD LED not QLED.
 
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43 is the biggest they could fit in the room apparently....i dont think QLED is a factor for them.....just after a decent tv with a good screen etc..
 
I'm in exactly the same situation as you! Parents need a new TV / max 43" with a £300 budget... hoping something comes up next Friday in the sale but not really sure what I should be looking for as very much out of touch with it all.
 
I wanted a new TV recently for the bedroom and had about £350 to spend. I looked at the E7N and liked it except for the stand. I had to have a TV with a centre stand or I couldn't put it where it needed to go. I found there was an A7N version with more central legs and found it would fit by 0.5cm :). It costs slightly more than the E7N even though the specs are supposed to be exactly the same bar the stand. I'm very happy with it, Freely works well and the picture (after a bit of fine tuning of colour and brightness) is very good. Also being direct lit full array means the contrast and blooming is very good. Mad to think what TVs you can get for this sort of money now.
 
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Sirrel Squirrel said:
I'd go for a Hisense 43E7NQTUK.

It has Dolby Vision, which will massively help with watching any HDR movies or shows plus it has Freely built in.

It's only 60Hz but that'll be fine for the Playstation as it also has a game mode with low latency and a variable refresh rate.
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Friend bought that model. Extremely happy with it. Many thanks for your recommendation..
 
I bought the Hisense 43E7NQTUK for my son for xmas and it was awful. The backlighting on it was abysmal. So much bleed and blooming.

I also run a plex server at home and the Plex app wouldn't work, I think it uses a weird VIDAA version that just kept crashing even at low bitrate content such as 720p.

Returned it today and swapped to an LG and it is so much better, even if it still a budget TV.
 
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I bought the Hisense 43E7NQTUK for my son for xmas and it was awful. The backlighting on it was abysmal. So much bleed and blooming.

I also run a plex server at home and the Plex app wouldn't work, I think it uses a weird VIDAA version that just kept crashing even at low bitrate content such as 720p.

Returned it today and swapped to an LG and it is so much better, even if it still a budget TV.
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Which LG did you go for?
 

We bought a 43E7KQTUK for the bedroom, dunno what the diff is to the one mentioned above, very similar PN.​

It's ok, it's under £300, so you can't expect it to be perfect.
 
rodders said:

We bought a 43E7KQTUK for the bedroom, dunno what the diff is to the one mentioned above, very similar PN.​

It's ok, it's under £300, so you can't expect it to be perfect.
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Yeah, seems to be a few with very close model numbers. Any stand out issues worth mentioning?
 
Drake5 said:
Yeah, seems to be a few with very close model numbers. Any stand out issues worth mentioning?
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I've not really done any major testing or anything, as it's a bedroom TV and for that price you will notice things.
For general TV and streaming, it seems ok.

I did play a few 4k wildlife YouTube videos, noticed the fur on animals, it struggles with that and goes a bit weird on occasions.

As for back lightning/bleed etc... I've not looked for any issues, but you'd probably find some :cry:
 
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I've not really done any major testing or anything, as it's a bedroom TV and for that price you will notice things.
For general TV and streaming, it seems ok.

I did play a few 4k wildlife YouTube videos, noticed the fur on animals, it struggles with that and goes a bit weird on occasions.

As for back lightning/bleed etc... I've not looked for any issues, but you'd probably find some :cry:
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Appreciated, thanks
 
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