I'm in the market for a roughly mid-range TV. I currently have a 60" plasma which is also acting as a space heater. I'd prefer at least 55" with HDR support and trying to keep it under $600.
Any suggestions? I know Black Friday can have deals but I'm not sure if the assumed discount is worth the wait.
Thanks!
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I've been pretty happy with it though it drives me nuts there was no single button to swap inputs. I fixed that with a Harmony remote but it is still there by default.
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For TCL I can say that isn't an issue. They basically just have a roku built in to manage inputs and apps and all that and generally just gets out of the way. There are some minor annoyances, like the preset for "Playstation" doesn't have game mode turned on by default which gave me a minor heart attack until I realized it.
Also the HDR brightness setting is per an input and can't be adjusted unless the input is currently displaying in HDR. Stuff came out too dark until I realized that and could correct. That sort of thing, where there are not really fine grained adjustment options could be an issue if you really like to tweak that sort of stuff.
Popup? Can you fill me in here? Because I've never seen it, but I set them up all the time and I want to be sure I'm not missing something.
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I can't say I agree. I picked up a 55" Samsung smart TV a couple of months ago and there has't been anything resembling a popup and oddly Netflix works better on it than it does on my PC.
The closest thing would probably be that it wanted me to watch some silly no content Samsung thing before I managed to get my other devices set up on it but that took maybe five minutes? Since then my only complaint is my cable box remote can't access the Source menu but I'm not sure that's the fault of the TV.
I wonder if your remote had a button stuck?
So uh... What's going on with your TVs?
I'm thinking of picking up a 65" OLED sometime soon, maybe after the holidays.
I specifically bought an OLED because from what I read, these kinds of issues were done with, and that's why I justified spending £3,000. LG weren't even going to replace it to begin with and said grey scaling or something was to be expected! I wasn't having that. Watching TV was impossible.
Screen is replaced, and now there is a whole horizontal band on the left side of the screen which is slightly different colour from the rest. Back in touch with them to replace the screen for a second time.
Sounds like clown shoes. Sorry you're going through it.
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