Recommend a TV

Cheetah Designs · 15 Mar 2021 at 17:02

Looking for a new TV, exclusively for use with my Google TV device.

- Budget £700
- Size - 50"+ but looking for best size vs. quality pay-off
- Thin bezels
- Needs to support turning on/off via CEC (my current LG TV doesn't support turning off)
- Switches on as quickly as possible (recall I am using a Google TV, I don't need any TV "features")
- I won't be using the remote, will be using Google TV remote exclusively
- Will be using TV speakers for sound - although I'm no audiophile.

4K8KW10 · 15 Mar 2021 at 17:11

Hi,

I'd recommend Panasonic.

Panasonic TX65HX580B
Panasonic TX58HX800B

Psycho Sonny · 16 Mar 2021 at 09:24

Samsung TU8000

Rtings has all the info you need

chroniclard · 16 Mar 2021 at 09:36

Psycho Sonny said:
Samsung TU8000

Rtings has all the info you need

Recent got a 55" TU8000, £499 if I recall correctly, and its a good secondary TV however the menu's are so slow and clunky. Its a big downside for me.

Psycho Sonny · 16 Mar 2021 at 09:50

chroniclard said:
Recent got a 55" TU8000, £499 if I recall correctly, and its a good secondary TV however the menu's are so slow and clunky. Its a big downside for me.

That's great because he's going to be using it exclusively with Google TV. So be won't be using it's built in smart system

chroniclard · 16 Mar 2021 at 09:50

Psycho Sonny said:
That's great because he's going to be using it exclusively with Google TV. So be won't be using it's built in smart system

Yeah didnt read it all.

Worth mentioning though.

Its a good budget TV.

Cheetah Designs · 16 Mar 2021 at 12:23

Psycho Sonny said:
Samsung TU8000

Rtings has all the info you need

I have another TV in the bedroom that is a Samsung which works with the CEC of Google TV, so I'm going to assume it will be fine here too.

Do you happen to know about the start-up "speed"? My (Samsung) bedroom tv takes about 5-6 seconds from pressing the button on the Google TV remote to being on and showing the Google TV menus. I think this is quite a long time, but maybe I'm being unreasonable.

4K8KW10 · 16 Mar 2021 at 14:53

There are many other brands worth looking for - Sony, LG, HiSense...

https://www.richersounds.com/tv-projectors/4k-ultra-hd-tvs.html?brand=22

https://www.richersounds.com/tv-projectors/4k-ultra-hd-tvs.html?brand=24

https://www.richersounds.com/tv-projectors/4k-ultra-hd-tvs.html?brand=71

Psycho Sonny · 16 Mar 2021 at 19:12

Cheetah Designs said:
I have another TV in the bedroom that is a Samsung which works with the CEC of Google TV, so I'm going to assume it will be fine here too.

Do you happen to know about the start-up "speed"? My (Samsung) bedroom tv takes about 5-6 seconds from pressing the button on the Google TV remote to being on and showing the Google TV menus. I think this is quite a long time, but maybe I'm being unreasonable.

Yes should work fine.

No idea about start up speed. Tbh it's something that you do once at that start and never have to think about again.

Most modern TV's I would imagine are the same. Apparently LG is the fastest the last time I checked but that was like 4 years ago.

After that Samsung bit again it depends on the model. The tu8000 is a budget model so won't be especially fast but nothing else would be faster for the money.

Again rtings has all the info you need just go on rtings and have a look at their TV buyers guides.

Whatever you do don't just pick a random TV go off of rtings buyers guides.