Cheap TV upgrade now or hold on for 4K?

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I have a cracking 37" Panasonic LCD TV full 1080p TV, it's hitting 6+ years old and I'm itching to get a bigger screen for the living room.

I've held on until now because I was thinking of it being a good idea to wait for the decent 4K TVs to start rolling out.

The prices of the 1080p TVs is incredibly tempting at the moment, particularly considering that I mainly use my TV for 1080p console gaming (360/PS4/XB1) but even these units aren't rendering content out at 4K so I'm asking myself what's the point?

I've been through collecting DVDs and Blurays, can't envisage me buying into ultra bluray... netflix streaming maybe but I'm watching less films than I ever have so given I'd be going for a 47" screen max.... I'm thinking a cheap upgrade would do me for 3-5 years now.
 
I was out off sony 8 year back or so when there were reports of them shipping demo units to reviewers with different screens in than the production units. The Panasonic has been great, only other brand I'd probably consider Samsung unless you can convince me otherwise :D
 
Part of me thinks now would be the best time, the techs matured that much that you can get cheap sets that produce close to reference levels out of the box.

Just too tempting!
 
I bought the Panasonic at her start of the full 1080p screens coming out, paid about £780 for it at the time, then 12 months later the market was flooded and they were going for £300-400. I'm to skip that trend this time around, can't see me upgrading my other kit to 4K soon too.

Now I just have to convince the wife....
 
The Samsung H6400 does look to be getting cracking reviews, just trying to find the equivalent Panasonic and Sony models to compare them to.
 
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