What 4K TV should I get? UK

[dykesy]

Hey guys,

I'm looking at getting a 4K TV considering I've got a 4K Blu-Ray player. Now I'm trying to keep it less than £500 and there's a Samsung TV I've been looking at but honestly I'm not 100% sure what I should be looking for. I want one that isn't going to have some processing on the image that can't be turned off or that needs turning off every time you turn it on. Below is a link to the one I was looking at, if anyone has any other recommendations please let me know

Thanks all.

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and...78417-pdt.html

[Danny124]

Originally Posted by dykesy

Hey guys,

I'm looking at getting a 4K TV considering I've got a 4K Blu-Ray player. Now I'm trying to keep it less than £500 and there's a Samsung TV I've been looking at but honestly I'm not 100% sure what I should be looking for. I want one that isn't going to have some processing on the image that can't be turned off or that needs turning off every time you turn it on. Below is a link to the one I was looking at, if anyone has any other recommendations please let me know

Thanks all.

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and...78417-pdt.html

I have 40” 4k and I would recommend one much bigger as it can be hard to see a difference mainly on films with a 2K di

[dykesy]

Originally Posted by Danny124

I have 40” 4k and I would recommend one much bigger as it can be hard to see a difference mainly on films with a 2K di

I can't fit a TV bigger than 43" in my room though so I'm looking for one no bigger than 43"

[stratford]

dykesy investigate a Panasonic TX 43FX650 depending how much wriggle room you have

[oddbox83]

Originally Posted by dykesy

Hey guys,

I'm looking at getting a 4K TV considering I've got a 4K Blu-Ray player. Now I'm trying to keep it less than £500 and there's a Samsung TV I've been looking at but honestly I'm not 100% sure what I should be looking for. I want one that isn't going to have some processing on the image that can't be turned off or that needs turning off every time you turn it on. Below is a link to the one I was looking at, if anyone has any other recommendations please let me know

Thanks all.

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and...78417-pdt.html

Given your limited budget I think you've made a fair choice yourself, potentially the best in that price range since it has £200 off the asking price. It won't be perfect, but you can't expect that for £500.

You should be able to turn all the crap off, but don't turn everything off. You need stuff like Real Cinema on and local dimming is a necessity with edge lit LED, just have a play around and see which setting you prefer. Low can sometimes be too little and high too much, but there's a lot of variation between panels even in the same range with edge-lit depending how much light bleed that individual screen gets.

Remember you'll have to do your tweaking at least twice with HDR TVs, once for SDR as you'd expect from any TV, but again for each HDR format the TV supports.

[dykesy]

Originally Posted by oddbox83

Given your limited budget I think you've made a fair choice yourself, potentially the best in that price range since it has £200 off the asking price. It won't be perfect, but you can't expect that for £500.

You should be able to turn all the crap off, but don't turn everything off. You need stuff like Real Cinema on and local dimming is a necessity with edge lit LED, just have a play around and see which setting you prefer. Low can sometimes be too little and high too much, but there's a lot of variation between panels even in the same range with edge-lit depending how much light bleed that individual screen gets.

Remember you'll have to do your tweaking at least twice with HDR TVs, once for SDR as you'd expect from any TV, but again for each HDR format the TV supports.

Cool, thanks What sort of tweaking is required for HDR and forgive my naivety but what's SDR?

[oddbox83]

Originally Posted by dykesy

Cool, thanks What sort of tweaking is required for HDR and forgive my naivety but what's SDR?

Standard Dynamic Range, or normal SD and HD.

You know when you set up your TV brightness/colour etc when you first get it? Well, you have to do the same for each type of HDR.

[Alister_M]

HDR and 10-bit colour is the primary gain you get from a 4K TV. At 43" the detail increase will be negligible, but you'll definitely notice the expanded colour and highlights.

[oddbox83]

^This.

[dykesy]

Thanks guys