Which 55" 4K TV ~£500-750 for use with Playstation 4 Pro and Console gaming?

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I currently have a 40" Sony KDL-40W4000 which, for the time was a pretty high end set, but it's nearly a decade old and I'd like to upgrade to something slightly larger with 4K/HDR support.

I'm looking for a 55"-ish 4K HDR set which will primarily be used for gaming and will connect to my PS4 Pro, Xbox One (no HRD/4k unfortunately), Switch and Wii U. It's not my main television and is just in my gaming man-cave so don't want to spend more than around £500-£750.

I literally haven't looked at televisions in ages so other than 55"-ish with 4K/HDR support I'm not really sure what I'm after. I'll probably hook up a 4K Chromecast for streaming movies and YouTube so I'm not really bothered about build in 'smart' apps or other features like that. Mainly I just want something with a decent panel and speakers.

Any tips, suggestions and advice would be appreciated. Especially if you mainly use your TV for gaming.

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silvagti said:
I currently have a 40" Sony KDL-40W4000 which, for the time was a pretty high end set, but it's nearly a decade old and I'd like to upgrade to something slightly larger with 4K/HDR support.

I'm looking for a 55"-ish 4K HDR set which will primarily be used for gaming and will connect to my PS4 Pro, Xbox One (no HRD/4k unfortunately), Switch and Wii U. It's not my main television and is just in my gaming man-cave so don't want to spend more than around £500-£750.

I literally haven't looked at televisions in ages so other than 55"-ish with 4K/HDR support I'm not really sure what I'm after. I'll probably hook up a 4K Chromecast for streaming movies and YouTube so I'm not really bothered about build in 'smart' apps or other features like that. Mainly I just want something with a decent panel and speakers.

Any tips, suggestions and advice would be appreciated. Especially if you mainly use your TV for gaming.

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One of the main factors in gaming, especially online FPS games, is input lag. You need it as low as possible.

Personally at that price point, I think you’ll struggle to beat the Samsung 55NU7400. Stunning 4K picture, HDR10 and a low input lag of 21ms, which is pretty good at this price point. It also has a VA panel, which I think is best for a TV. You can get the 55 instore for £699. It also comes with a six year guarantee.ive had to use richer sounds after sales before and its excellent. Fixed my TV once and when it broke again, they replaced it with a newer 4K model the very next day.
 
robfosters said:
Personally at that price point, I think you’ll struggle to beat the Samsung 55NU7400. Stunning 4K picture, HDR10 and a low input lag of 21ms, which is pretty good at this price point. It also has a VA panel, which I think is best for a TV. You can get the 55 instore for £699. It also comes with a six year guarantee.ive had to use richer sounds after sales before and its excellent. Fixed my TV once and when it broke again, they replaced it with a newer 4K model the very next day.
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Thanks for the suggestion. A few folk I'd spoken to had suggested the Samsung NU7xxx and NU8xxx TVs. In fact I was in a shop earlier today and the salesman there suggested getting a Samsung 55NU8000. Typical salesman trying to recommend something over the amount I told him I wanted to spend :D It does look good though I'm not sure if it's worth upping my budget to £800-900 to get than instead of a cheaper model.

Having said a budget of £750 I would contemplate spending a hundred or so more if there was a particular TV or technology which warranted the extra monies? Glancing at the product sheet the main differences seem to be that the NU8000 has better speakers and a 100Hz panel. I'm wondering if that in particular might be better for gaming?
 
I've also been recommended the Hisense 55" U7A which I'm tempted by as it only costs £600. Only issue with it is that it only has 2 4k 60hz HDMI ports which isn't a problem just now but might be in future.
 
silvagti said:
Do OLED TVs still have screen burn in issues as I was worried if it's for gaming primary that might be a problem?

Just googled it and Samsung QLED isn't actually OLED so apparently not!

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/what-is-samsung-qled-vs-oled
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Yes, they do - not as widespread as some would have you believe, but very far from impossible as others will tell you.
Anything based on LED technology, including the QLED from Samsung, will not exhibit that issue.
 
you want to buy a 10 bit panel for HDR.

if you want viewing angles (don't sit straight on or will have others who don't sit straight on) then you will have to sacrifice 10 bit for an IPS and buy an LG.

the more you spend the better the tv will be - simple as that really. stick to the well known big brands (Sony, Samsung, LG and Panasonic). Hisense isn't quite there yet for me.
 
I was in a local TV retailer today and something that surprised me was how variable the 1080p image looked on all the televisions! They were all running a BBC news HD (presumably freeview) feed however on most of the sets the image quality looked terrible?

I'd presumed a 1080p image would scale up perfectly to 4K as presumed all it needed to do was make every 1080p pixel a block of 4? However the motion in particular was very "smeary" and the image quality quite poor. I'm assuming that was something to do with the feed in the shop as the 4K TVs running actual 4K demo footage all looked fantastic to my eye regardless of price?

It difficult to compare as the OLED/QLED TVs were all running 4k content whereas the cheaper LED 4k HDR TVs were all on freeview/shop feed 1080p content so I'm still not really sure how much different there is between most of them? I suspect they wanted to intentionally make the more expensive TV's look substantially better compared to the cheaper ones by only giving them the best quality 4K footage!

I'll maybe have a look in another shop tomorrow and see if the difference there is more noticeable and the quality of the standard footage better?
 
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