Best non-4K, non-Sony 50" TV right now?

harry5522 said:
One problem i had with the screen was with spending £600 on a screen i kind of was expecting £6000 oled quality. You won't find a screen better than this for the same price. And for that matter quite a bit more expensive. If you want me to send over my settings to try out that was properly calibrated you welcome to have them to test :).
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Yes please mate, that'd be great. :)

Wish there was a way to just copy picture settings across all inputs or just set them once globally, so annoying having them change for different inputs, apps etc. Very bizarre implementation Sony have used.
 
TheVoice said:
Yes please mate, that'd be great. :)

Wish there was a way to just copy picture settings across all inputs or just set them once globally, so annoying having them change for different inputs, apps etc. Very bizarre implementation Sony have used.
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No problem mate sorry for the late reply! had pc issues.

What il do is just photograph my screen on the different setting pages and il trust them over for you :)

and yes! i could not agree more. I loathe the fact that i have to key in settings on each input. And that the settings don't stick on the " home smart screen thing " so everytime i want to consume media via usb stick in the tv i have to re do the settings. Sigh! Love the tv though! i can over look the issue on the smart screen as i rarely use it! and the quality of the display itself is great! get's remarks from everyone who visits!
 
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Thanks a lot, will give those a go in a bit. :)

This one definitely seems better than the last one, watched the last two Hunger Games films the last couple of nights in preparation for seeing the new one this week, and there's very little noticeable backlight bleed/clouding in dark scenes with it compared to the one I returned. Still looks poor when viewed from an angle but I'm sitting head-on so that's not an issue.
 
TheVoice said:
Thanks a lot, will give those a go in a bit. :)

This one definitely seems better than the last one, watched the last two Hunger Games films the last couple of nights in preparation for seeing the new one this week, and there's very little noticeable backlight bleed/clouding in dark scenes with it compared to the one I returned. Still looks poor when viewed from an angle but I'm sitting head-on so that's not an issue.
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No problem mate :D

I have no major complaints about mine thought your situation is testament to what could be poor QA. I am wondering if it like many other screens has something to do with how tight the bezel is installed.
 
TheVoice said:
Yes please mate, that'd be great. :)

Wish there was a way to just copy picture settings across all inputs or just set them once globally, so annoying having them change for different inputs, apps etc. Very bizarre implementation Sony have used.
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I think there is mate if you go to the picture option menu where it says target inputs select that and you can change it from current to common :)
 
Two months later and now this one is faulty too. Spoke to Sony, they said they'd escalate my case and call me back tonight. They haven't, so I've asked Amazon to provide a refund and they've agreed.

So, is the Panasonic TX-50CX680B above still my best bet as a replacement? I'll take a trip to John Lewis this weekend to hopefully see a few in action and get a feel for what they're like to use. Annoyingly I'm going to end up losing out both financially (the Sony was a good price if nothing else) and on features but if it means I instead have a TV that isn't plagued with bugs and issues so be it. One of the nice things about the Sony was the low input lag for gaming so ideally the replacement needs to be as good in that respect.
 
Avoid the Panasonic if you like sport. I'm sending my third 50cx802 back this week. I get awful Vertical back light banding on sport shows (golf, Cricket, football) as well as light sky scenes. It's horrendous on panning shots no matter how quick.

I've no option but to look at Samsung now considering the issues with Sony right now. I'm going to buy a cheap HD set for now and see what happen with oled this year.

If you don't watch sport, the panny is an excellent screen!
 
I have no interest in sport whatsoever but that doesn't sound good regardless!

Eugh, such a crappy time to be buying a TV; OLED still far too expensive for me to consider, LCD quality seemingly a complete lottery and smart functionality just doesn't seem particularly well-implemented by any of the manufacturers. I have this horrible feeling that even with upping my budget, I'm going to end up disappointed somehow.
 
The Samsung H6400 has been praised about a million times on this forum. For the sake of 2 inches, you could check it out?

Edit - can you fit in a 55"?
 
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I had the Samsung ue48h6400 for the last year and it has been great. Clouding/bleed was only just visible on test screens but never in use.

I have just changed it for the 55 inch h6400 version.

For your budget and if you are determined to avoid 4k I don't think you will find a better set, new, especially as you get the 6 year richersounds warranty.

Whilst it is a budget set now due to the price, it is still a quality tv.
 
kona786 said:
The Samsung H6400 has been praised about a million times on this forum. For the sake of 2 inches, you could check it out?

Edit - can you fit in a 55"?
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Thanks, I'll give that one a look. No 50" will be the max I can go.

Scrutinize said:
I had the Samsung ue48h6400 for the last year and it has been great. Clouding/bleed was only just visible on test screens but never in use.

I have just changed it for the 55 inch h6400 version.

For your budget and if you are determined to avoid 4k I don't think you will find a better set, new, especially as you get the 6 year richersounds warranty.

Whilst it is a budget set now due to the price, it is still a quality tv.
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I'm not dead against 4K, I just don't want to end up spending more just for the sake of having it when I won't have any 4K sources and have no intention of upgrading to 4K Blu-ray, 4K Sky etc.
 
peahead said:
I was going to recommend you take a look at the Panasonic TX50CX680B but you said you dont want 4K ? I know there is not much content out there but maybe you should reconsider :p

https://www.avforums.com/review/panasonic-cx680-tx-50cx680b-4k-ultra-hd-tv-review.11857
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This, got one pre Christmas and it's the second best TV I've owned and really stands out amongst my other friends units. (TV before was Panny Plasma). I've got no issues with sports / gaming, but that's because I spent an hour or two calibrating it and reviewing some of the AVF settings online.
 
Sounds promising! How's the 'smart' side of it? Both in terms of apps, and the look, feel and responsiveness of the interface? I'll probably end up having to buy a Chromecast at some point, I don't use the cast feature of my current Sony one much but it's nice to have when I do want it. Probably the only thing I'll miss about it though!
 
Went to both Currys and John Lewis today. Saw some nice TVs but still not much closer to settling on one. The Samsung's seem nice, and I was quite impressed with the UE50JU6800 but the guy in Currys showed me a Full HD video file on it and the upscaling was utterly atrocious; jagged edges, poor colour reproduction, really couldn't believe it looked so bad. Whether that's down to the TV itself or just the built-in USB media player I don't know, but it wasn't very nice.

LG's Web OS is great, really smooth and quick to navigate, but Samsungs have Spotify which is swaying me somewhat. Firefox OS on the Panasonics seems okay, but a lot of the on-screen banners, menus etc are still old clunkly-looking designs which suggests they're doing the same as Sony in just having the OS running on top of their existing TV platform.

More thinking to do then!
 
Sod it, gone for that Samsung 48" everyone's banging on about. Annoyed I'm having to go for a 2014 model and it's 2" smaller, but the market is crap right now for full HD TVs and 4K is either compromised or too expensive.

What a waste of a weekend.
 
I went for the 40" version yesterday too. (Assuming you mean the h6400). I sent my third pannh 50cx802 back after getting fedup of vertical backlight banding. I went smaller as its only a temp solution till I see what happens with oled on 2016 models. The 40" will go in the kitchen the .

For the money, the picture is pretty good to be fair!
 
Ha yep, that's the one. Disappointed to be going for an older model when the entire point of me upgrading was to go for a new one with the latest and greatest smart features, but it seems like they're all compromised in some way. LG's WebOS is by far the nicest to use but the input lag seems quite bad across their model range which isn't ideal for gaming.
 
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