Which 49" to 50" 4K TV?

[Kenai]

I have a big pile of vouchers for JL, so looking at a new TV for a new place soon.

Looking around £650 budget ideally and these are the prime candidates - any 'Dont touch those with a bargepole' or 'best by a country mile' among these?

Panasonic Viera 50DX700B @ £600

Samsung UE49KU6500 Curved @ £650

LG 49UH770 @ £650

Sony Bravia 49XD8077/8099 @ £660

Not particularly fussy about the curved aspect of the Samsung but it's the only offering they have at the price range, unless the £550 UE49KU6400U is competitive with the offerings above.

 

[Kenai]

Had a look in JL this afternoon and the Sony was the clear favourite in the end.

The Samsung looked atrocious displaying regular HD TV content, the more expensive models were better but the 6500 really did not impress here. The LG in general just didn't really impress.

The Panasonic and Sony were close competitors but the Sony has tipped it as they're throwing in £100 off atm if you get the very highly rated HT-XT3 soundbase with it. It's also only £630 in black, £660 for silver.

 

[Kenai]

I set all the TVs to 'standard' myself in the display menu, not much fiddling beyond that. On BBC1 HD the Samsung showed up the compression artefacts, where the others made a much better job of showing the same content. Maybe it was on a poorer quality aerial cable or someone had buggered up a deeply hidden setting somewhere but i'm not interested enough in the screen to spend any time resetting the entire thing myself or seeking out multiple shops to view it in just in case.