JVC telly?

[Woden]

There’s a 55” 4K tv with Alexa and fire tv in the sales, about £350. Are they any good? Not expecting great things, obviously. But it’s for my bedroom and Xbox and Netflix. Sound not an issue, I have a decent a/v setup.

could replace my ageing 50” Sony. I’ve lost the stand and bracket in a move and the remote is in bits.

 

[Woden]

There are no TVs on JVC's own website, looks like Currys/PC World are using the JVC name on their own products under license.

Quite possibly. I just want something “ok” for £300/£400 and it looked alryin store

 

[Woden]

Realistically if you want a TV with decent app support it needs to be either Samsung or LG as they've at least taken steps to unify their OS across most of their model ranges and model years so you shouldn't lose much/any functionality as time goes on, beyond whatever new capabilities new hardware brings in future. The apps are usually developed by the service provider (i.e. LG don't design the Amazon Video or iPlayer apps, that's down to Amazon and BBC) so if it's easy and worthwhile to support older apps they'll continue to do so.

I actually went for LG in the end. I the 55UM7000PLC I pick it up tomorrow. It just looked a far better picture in the shop, for about £20 more.

 

[Woden]

Much better choice.

I still stand by what I said about apps though.

Solid choice, it'll be a much better TV and it looks like it uses WebOS so you'll get a better selection of (useful) apps than you would with the Fire TV or stick.

The smart features are more a nice to have really. If the Netflix or amazon apps stop being useful. I’ll always have a console or laptop plugged in

 

[Woden]

They shouldn't stop being useful really.

In my bedroom I have a VT50 plasma from 2012 and the Netflix app on that still works.

I have an old Bravia, the Netflix and iplayer apps work, but are ridiculously slow, taking about a minute to load each page of content.