Decent 50-55in 4kTV on the cheap?

Devrij

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Our TV just packed in out of the blue, and it just so happens that I bought a 3080 so am short of savings to splurge on a decent new TV. That said, I don't want something awful, so I figured you guys would be more in the know than me.

Any recommendations for something in the £500ish mark? Smart TV essential! I'm actually less fussed about 4k since I don't have a 4k bluray player and streamed 4k content is so compressed it's not really 4k anymore. Just seems 4k is mainstream now.
 
theone8181 said:
Which do you want, decent or cheap:D. I assume you mean new?
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Haha, yeah I know, I think I mean something in the middle. I was looking at the Samsung UE50TU8500 to give you a feel. It seems like a decent all-rounder with fairly meh HDR support (which is fine because our 5+yr old TV didn't have it at all), and supports all the apps we use (NOWTV, D+, Netflix, PrimeTV, etc). The alternative was the Hisense TVs, but frankly they are a big unknown to me so I was gonna make the jump from LG to Samsung and see how I got on.
 
hisense all the way!

my last 3 big tv's have all been over £3k each then i got a 55 hisence and was blown away pound for pound
 
mmj_uk said:
I'd RMA the GPU and get a quality TV, what do you need a £700 graphics card for if you don't have a 4K display?
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A tv isn't a monitor? How many of us plug in our PCs to TVs, I bet it's a small percent.

What a weird comment.
 
Begbie said:
A tv isn't a monitor? How many of us plug in our PCs to TVs, I bet it's a small percent.

What a weird comment.
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I admit I didn't read his post very thoroughly and it does sound like this is for the living room (my bad) but lots of people use and are buying TV's for PC now since monitors are smaller, comparatively more expensive and don't have decent HDR.

I'd still recommend RMA'ing the GPU particularly if you have one that's afflicted by the capacitor smoothing issue (under spec cards), get a quality TV now and upgrade your graphics later when the dust has settled.
 
signs said:
hisense all the way!

my last 3 big tv's have all been over £3k each then i got a 55 hisence and was blown away pound for pound
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I'm in a similar position to the OP, and HiSense have been popping up in my searches.

How have you found the OS and how reactive it is compared to your other more expensive TVs? Can you offer any other info?

I'd not heard of HiSense before I started looking, but then I've not been in the market for a new TV for 9 years.
 
I ended up going for the UE50TU8500 in the end, which should be arriving this coming week. No great shakes, but I think I'd want to get hands on with the OS of a HiSense telly before buying one
 
Devrij said:
I ended up going for the UE50TU8500 in the end, which should be arriving this coming week. No great shakes, but I think I'd want to get hands on with the OS of a HiSense telly before buying one
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That TV will pee all over cheap hisense TV's.

Only America has access to the decent cheap hisense models.

Hisense TV's are crap when it comes to colours and the soap opera effect on them is awful.

You get whole areas of the screen which are the same colour as if they are using 6 bit panels or 6 bit colour processing
 
Psycho Sonny said:
That TV will pee all over cheap hisense TV's.

Only America has access to the decent cheap hisense models.

Hisense TV's are crap when it comes to colours and the soap opera effect on them is awful.

You get whole areas of the screen which are the same colour as if they are using 6 bit panels or 6 bit colour processing
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Ah good, that's reassuring!
 
Devrij said:
I ended up going for the UE50TU8500 in the end, which should be arriving this coming week. No great shakes, but I think I'd want to get hands on with the OS of a HiSense telly before buying one
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its a good tv unless your looking for a bright one bought one for daughters bedroom, luckily her room isn't bright.
 
Show me one hisense TV which is reviewed better than the Samsung he bought for cheaper by a reputable review site like avforums, hdtvtest or rtings. Not which.

Then we can see who the true idiot is.

The TV obviously has to be readily available to buy in the UK. Not us only model.
 
from my research the hisense TV's with the Roku OS which is popular in the USA is the ones to go for. they are available from one supplier over here (argos)
 
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