What TV should I buy?

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I'm very out of date on what makes a good TV nowadays. Is anyone here up to speed?

What brands and what tech specs should I look for for £500-£1000?

Our 11 year old 46" Sony Bravia (£1k back then) has served us faithfully until this morning when our 5 year old repaid that service by coughing his full mouthful of tea directly over it from about a foot away.

Insurance company says their system considers the like-for-like replacement to be a £500 50" 4k HDR Philips. This looks decent on paper, but I don't know whether Philips are any good, and what there's some no-brainer specifications I should make sure the replacement has.

Thanks to anyone who can offer some help.
 
These cheap TV are much of a muchness IMO. If you have a £1k budget you can get a far better TV than the phillips. You are almost into 55" OLED territory. I'm sure by black Friday you could pick up a 55" LG BX for that price.

If you have to buy now the Sony is a very good TV https://www.richersounds.com/tv-projectors/all-tvs/sony-bravia-kd55xg9505bu.html

But bear in mind much better deals are only weeks away.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Rtings
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Thanks. Bookmarked.
200sols said:
These cheap TV are much of a muchness IMO. If you have a £1k budget you can get a far better TV than the phillips. You are almost into 55" OLED territory. I'm sure by black Friday you could pick up a 55" LG BX for that price.

If you have to buy now the Sony is a very good TV https://www.richersounds.com/tv-projectors/all-tvs/sony-bravia-kd55xg9505bu.html

But bear in mind much better deals are only weeks away.
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Thanks. This backs up what I've read elsewhere, so you've helped make up my mind to hold fire for a bit. OLED is worth it then? Are there OLED brands to look out for. Last time I looked was years ago, and I think it was just LG that offered OLED.
Iron Man said:
I bought a 65 inch TCL QLED one and its really good but the operating system and apps are pretty slow as they cheaped out on the processor.
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We might well just use our Fire Stick, so OS speed isn't too much of a worry. I've not heard of TCL. I'll have a look. Thanks.
turbot1984 said:
I always stick with Bravias they seem to last. One in front room is 8 years old, HD only but great picture and sound
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Ours has been great. 9 years (not 11 like I originally thought) without any problems.
 
garnett said:
Thanks. Bookmarked.
Thanks. This backs up what I've read elsewhere, so you've helped make up my mind to hold fire for a bit. OLED is worth it then? Are there OLED brands to look out for. Last time I looked was years ago, and I think it was just LG that offered OLED.
We might well just use our Fire Stick, so OS speed isn't too much of a worry. I've not heard of TCL. I'll have a look. Thanks.
Ours has been great. 9 years (not 11 like I originally thought) without any problems.
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Aye, have got three Bravias in the house, last one was 43 inch 4K for £350, its great.
 
turbot1984 said:
I always stick with Bravias they seem to last. One in front room is 8 years old, HD only but great picture and sound
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It's extremely ignorant to be brand loyal.

Sony used to make every part of their TV's they were a huge manufacturer.

However they have struggled in every division bar consoles and had to split up the company to stop one entity bringing the whole thing down.

Now Sony don't make any if the panels in their TV's. They buy them off their competitors.

I'm not saying don't buy Sony. In fact I've bought 2 Sony's in the past 5 years. However they are no longer what they were and only their high end expensive sets are decent.

Rtings is what anyone should be using to buy a TV. Just blindly buying a Sony is a terrible idea.
 
Just to update the thread... I ended up buying a 55" Samsung Q95T that popped up in a decent Black Friday deal (£992 and with a bundled in sound bar). Very pleased, and a big improvement on what it replaced.

Thanks for the tips and advice.
 
garnett said:
Just to update the thread... I ended up buying a 55" Samsung Q95T that popped up in a decent Black Friday deal (£992 and with a bundled in sound bar). Very pleased, and a big improvement on what it replaced.

Thanks for the tips and advice.
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Very highly rated TV.

Very good price too. Especially if you got a soundbar included.

I paid £1k for my 55" xf90 for the bedroom a couple of years back and yours should be significantly better in terms of led zones iirc.

A very good choice for the budget if not the best.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Very highly rated TV.

Very good price too. Especially if you got a soundbar included.

I paid £1k for my 55" xf90 for the bedroom a couple of years back and yours should be significantly better in terms of led zones iirc.

A very good choice for the budget if not the best.
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Yes, it was a weird deal that popped up on HUKD for a couple of hours early in the morning. So far the set seems fantastic. Thanks a lot for recommending Rtings - I'd not come across them before and since you mentioned them they've become my go-to source of info.
 
garnett said:
Yes, it was a weird deal that popped up on HUKD for a couple of hours early in the morning. So far the set seems fantastic. Thanks a lot for recommending Rtings - I'd not come across them before and since you mentioned them they've become my go-to source of info.
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Yeah the site is fantastic.

I just bought a gaming monitor based off their buyers guides and I can't believe they have now ventured into other areas like vacuums, etc. They reviewed the Samsung G7 odyssey as being the best gaming and best 240hz monitor so I went for it knowing it will be great. Didn't need to look at YouTube like I normally do as well as another resource.

The other great thing about them is they buy every thing from a store nothing from manufacturers so they know it's not a cherry picked review sample. This isn't the case with previous sites I've used like avforums and hdtvtest who get sent stuff from manufacturers to review.

You can literally just go in there look at a guide and make a decision on a TV inside 5-10 minutes. You can trust with their in depth reviews and testing that their guides are spot on.

The only downside is its an American site so model numbers can be slightly different here in the UK. So you might have to find the UK model name and sometimes they aren't available over here at all especially the hisense and TCL models they are USA exclusive models or just not available here in the UK. A pity as those two normally come up trump's in the budget sector but those models that review highly simply aren't available here only much inferior models are.

I also used them recently to buy a gaming mouse and a headset. I hope they keep expanding the more people who use them as a resource the better for all of us. Manufacturers will pay more attention to quality and value for money if people use in depth reviews and vigorous testing to make a decision on what to spend their money on.

They will likely have a review on the soundbar maybe too which you could sell on if it doesn't impress and upgrade to something a bit better possibly.

I have said they should sticky the top 5 review sites in this section as that would literally answer 95% of questions that are asked in here.

The only thing you need to do is stay away from the site as newer and better TV's are released every year. So it does entice you to upgrade more regularly than what's warranted usually.
 
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