Need a new TV

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.

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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.
 
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.
 
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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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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hornetstinger said:
What's your viewing distance?
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Viewing distance isn't the problem the space is and the wife suffers from glaucoma, we have tried a 48in TV and she was complaining about it hurting her eyes because it felt right in her face.

This is where our TV is at the moment, we are waiting on a new cabinet to be made which will be the same height as the window ledge and will come forward a bit more so 43in is all we need.

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@ LiE

Had a long chat with her about it today trying to save us some money but she won't let me buy it from the MM, she would rather us spend the full amount and get the full 6 year guarantee in our name.
 
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£419.00 with the 30% off

That is a huge saving over the LG C3 42in how long is this offer on for? We're away at the moment and I wouldn't mind seeing the picture on this TV need to take the wife as well make sure it's OK on her eye's.
 
Well I have finally bit the bullet and ordered the LG C3 42in it's coming next week.

I could have had it for £862 using perks at work but wanted to buy it from Richer Sounds for the 6 year guarantee they couldn't match the perks at work, (I don't blame them) I got it without the free speaker so got it reduced to £999 I missed the offer for it a couple of weeks ago when we were away. Had to get it this week because new TV cabinet is arriving also next week and I can't be bothered waiting any longer and want to get it all fitted at the same time.
 
Been messing with it for the last week or so, picture is in normal standard mode it was in filmmaker mode but for some strange reason it keeps jumping into different modes mainly into HDR mode and back and then HDR mode again I can't work out what setting that's causing this inside the Freesat box when the TV is in filmmaker mode.

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