Need a new TV

Lord Alibaski

Lord Alibaski

Lord Alibaski

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We have just had our living room redone but the wife wouldn't let me buy a new TV until she changed her mind today when we put our old sony kdl-37w5810 back in there and it looked a bit out-dated.

The budget for a new TV I've been told is £600, it's got to include a Freesat tuner, headphone socket (though I have some AKG wireless headphones so headphone socket can be removed) plus it can't be over 50inch due to where it's going, plus we have to be careful with the feet of the unit she would prefer it with the feet centred she doesn't like the feet hanging to close to the edge

You can see we have had an old TV for many a year so I am a bit behind the times, I have looked at a few but just can't make my mind up these below are the one's I have looked at for now so any help would be appreciated.

PHILIPS 50PUS8807
LG 43UQ91006LA
LG 50UQ91006LA
 
Cheers lucid, I was looking at the 50in version of that didn't even think of the 43in. I can get it for £650 if I throw in any TV just got to get the wife to agree with me we've always preferred the colours on the Sony's.

I take it the Philips is a no go as well? It looks a decent TV but I've not had a Philips TV for over 40 years.
 
I'd personally wait for the Panasonic TX-50MX800B if can fit a 50" in. Will be out soon and within your budget, otherwise same model will have a 43".

www.panasonic.com

50 inch LED Fire TV | TX-50MX800B | Panasonic UK & Ireland

Explore the features of the Panasonic 4K 50 inch LED Fire TV from the MX800 series, with Alexa voice control and HDR cinema display for the ultimate experience.
www.panasonic.com www.panasonic.com

Will play every video codec including Dolby Vision and HDR10+ and the Pannys no matter the model are always the most accurate out the box.

Has the tuner and headphone socket as well.
 
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Lord Alibaski said:
Cheers lucid, I was looking at the 50in version of that didn't even think of the 43in. I can get it for £650 if I throw in any TV just got to get the wife to agree with me we've always preferred the colours on the Sony's.

I take it the Philips is a no go as well? It looks a decent TV but I've not had a Philips TV for over 40 years.
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Early this morning I read your post and my first thought was that getting a TV with Freesat would be tricky. However, I searched for TVs with Freesat. Google returned the Sony along with some others that are way over your budget. Looking a bit closer no though it looks like the Sony only has a satellite TV tuner and not Freesat. The same is true of the Philips. It's like that too for a lot of the LG TVs.

The difference between Freesat and just satellite TV reception is how the TV channels are arranged. Freesat puts them in the familiar BBC1, BBC2, ITV-1, Ch4, C5.... order. It also allows the selection of TV regions. This is part of the Freesat EPG. Using this electronic programme guide excludes any channels that aren't part of the UK's TV service.

A satellite tuner doesn't filter the results. You get everything that your location can receive. This includes a lot of foreign language and subscription channels (e.g. the Sky subscription only channels) that the Freesat tuner would ignore. It's up to you then to filter and store the channels in some kind of usable order. To get an idea of what's up there then have a look at this: LINK

TV manufacturers pay licencing fees to have Freeview and Freesat EPG access. With the increasing pressure on TV costs and the waning popularity of Freesat as a standalone service, it's now rare to find a TV manufacturer opting to include (pay for) Freesat when the vast majority of TV buyers don't value it as an option. I know that in your case it's different, but you're now the rare exception.

With all the above in mind, I would consider the Philips too. The advantages over the Sony are that the Philips has a 100Hz/120Hz native refresh rate panel and also supports HDR10+ in addition to the Sony's HDR10 and Dolby Vision. Then of course there's Ambilight. I would consider Sony a more reliable brand, but there isn't a huge lead on this between Sony and Philips, and Sony isn't immune to failures. A sensible precaution with any TV is to buy from Richer SOunds or John Lewis who will throw in a 6 or 5 year warranty respectively.
 
At Lucid the satellite tuner on TVs is the same for Freesat, when you tune it in, the TV only finds the Freesat channels it does the same thing when we tune the Freesat 4k box. I have told her we would have more options if we just let the Freesat box do it's job and look for a TV without it but she uses the twin tuners quite a lot on the box and when the box isn't recording she leaves it in standby mode and watches Freesat via the TV. I would just keep this old Sony but the tuner isn't working properly anymore (it keeps breaking up) and it's not the cable or lnb because I've tested them individually on different boxes and they work completely fine. Sony haven't updated the firmware on it for quite some time hence why we need a new TV.

Richer will be the place I will get it from I'm going to phone them next week and see if they can get me the Philips one in. Tried to find a price on that panny Simmz said but it was coming up at £799 and the feet look way close to the edge.

Spent hours on avforums not much help really.
 
Lord Alibaski said:
At Lucid the satellite tuner on TVs is the same for Freesat, when you tune it in, the TV only finds the Freesat channels it does the same thing when we tune the Freesat 4k box. I have told her we would have more options if we just let the Freesat box do it's job and look for a TV without it but she uses the twin tuners quite a lot on the box and when the box isn't recording she leaves it in standby mode and watches Freesat via the TV. I would just keep this old Sony but the tuner isn't working properly anymore (it keeps breaking up) and it's not the cable or lnb because I've tested them individually on different boxes and they work completely fine. Sony haven't updated the firmware on it for quite some time hence why we need a new TV.

Richer will be the place I will get it from I'm going to phone them next week and see if they can get me the Philips one in. Tried to find a price on that panny Simmz said but it was coming up at £799 and the feet look way close to the edge.

Spent hours on avforums not much help really.
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55" is £799. 50" is £699 43" is £599. However, if were interested I can give you a 15% code for Panasonic so would knock it down to £599.99 for the 50". Feet are tucked in, not right on the end like others. Stand in the middle will come a lot more forward with the weight balance.
 
Not in a rush just yet, so will wait until more pictures come out of for that Panasonic because when you click on that link you put up it shows you a TV with the feet on the edges not with the stand in the middle and that's for all sizes you click on.
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Simmz said:
I'd personally wait for the Panasonic TX-50MX800B if can fit a 50" in. Will be out soon and within your budget, otherwise same model will have a 43".

www.panasonic.com

50 inch LED Fire TV | TX-50MX800B | Panasonic UK & Ireland

Explore the features of the Panasonic 4K 50 inch LED Fire TV from the MX800 series, with Alexa voice control and HDR cinema display for the ultimate experience.
www.panasonic.com www.panasonic.com

Will play every video codec including Dolby Vision and HDR10+ and the Pannys no matter the model are always the most accurate out the box.

Has the tuner and headphone socket as well.
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I'm in the market for a new 50" around this price range. Reckon this will be out within the next couple of months?
 
Lord Alibaski said:
If it's the price you say for that 50in, the Panasonic is at the top of my list so big thank you Simmz for bringing it to my attention.
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Panasonic Store Panasonic TX-50MX800B

Panasonic TX-50MX800B A beautifully simplified all-in-one Fire TV, for endless viewing choices
crawley.store.panasonic.co.uk

Can't buy yet as no stock but it will definitely be the price. Should be out in August. If you don't mind buying directly from Panasonic then I can drop you a 15% off code. Still get 5 year warranty etc and will bring price down to £595.
 
Simmz said:

Panasonic Store Panasonic TX-50MX800B

Panasonic TX-50MX800B A beautifully simplified all-in-one Fire TV, for endless viewing choices
crawley.store.panasonic.co.uk

Can't buy yet as no stock but it will definitely be the price. Should be out in August. If you don't mind buying directly from Panasonic then I can drop you a 15% off code. Still get 5 year warranty etc and will bring price down to £595.
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More than one of these codes going? :p
 
I had a visit to the local C shop today to have a look at the Philips TV. At first impressions I wasn't happy at all and with an LG 50NANO81 standing next to it, the Philips looked rather dull and from what I have read about the LG, it's not one of their best.
 
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We had to reconsider the size of TV we needed so we have stepped down to a 43in, though a bonus the lovely wife increased my budget and said I could get the LG C2 or C3 both same price at the moment just stuck on which one to get.
 
@ iron_monkey

Until yesterday the C2 was the one in front with me because of the price, but getting one is the problem then I noticed the C3 come down to the same price so that made my mind up to get a C3. I'm not much bothered about dts audio I won't be hooking it up to any speaker system rooms too small for it.

@ LiE

I noticed that last night but it was that late when I did I was too tired to reply to the topic. Though having a chat with the wife today about it she as mixed feelings of me spending that much money in the MM because the last time I purchased something from there I got ripped off (not just me a few others did from the same seller) but she is just a bit dubious of me spending that much even though it could same half the price of buying a brand new one. I still might ask TechnoCorruption why is the sale so cheap seems a bit on the low side for me even for a 6 month old TV.
 
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