Large LED Smart TV for £500?

[Guru]

Hi all,

My brother inlaw is after a new TV and has given me a budget of £500, I haven't been in the market for a new TV for some time so I don't know what's about for this price point.

The only requirements he's given is that it's LED and "Smart", but I think it's safe to assume he would want 1080p.

I would suggest 50"+ if that's doable, but I don't know if that would be out of his price range.

Any decent ones for this price around at the moment?

Thanks,

G

 

[neodude]

I doubt you would get a 50" Smart LED for that price. Not one from a decent manufacturer anyway.

You can get a Panasonic TX-L42E6B 42" LED for 530 quid. That's about as cheap as you're going to get for a 42" Smart TV.

 

[ping8781]

^ this bought one last week and it's an excellent TV for a really good price. Great picture and excellent reviews

 

[Psycho Sonny]

go over to avforums and ask on there, it's a specialised forum all about tv's and home cinema stuff, whereas only a handful of people know what they are talking about on here.

also;

there is no such thing as an LED tv, well there is but it isn't what you are looking for, what you are looking for is an LCD which uses LED's for the backlighting rather than other "older" methods of backlighting.

therefore it is an LCD tv not an LED which is marketing crap from manufacturer's and PR campaigns to push it as a new technology when it really isn't.

why does it have to be smart?

why does it have to be LCD?

 

[neodude]

what you are looking for is an LCD which uses LED's for the backlighting rather than other "older" methods of backlighting.

...Which the industry refers to as an "LED TV".

I really don't get people that get upset by the term "LED TV". It's a term used to describe an LED-Backlit LCD TV. What's the problem?

push it as a new technology when it really isn't.

Using LEDs as the backlight IS a new technology compared to older CCFL backlit TVs.