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What size and what's your pain tolerance?
We got a 40" 4K LG at Costco for our upstairs living area. The big selling point was that LG supports Xfinity's beta streaming app, so we don't need a cable box (the TV is wall mounted and we didn't want wires everywhere). Samsung, for some reason, steadfastly refuses to support the Xfinity app on their newer TVs.
Otherwise I think the 4K TVs have mostly gotten to the point of being a commodity. You can spend a lot of money if you want deeper blacks or faster refresh, but for watching TV the quality of the source is almost always the limiting factor. If you watch a lot of movies and are using a 4K media (not streaming) I think those dollars might be more worthwhile. The other variable is inputs - the cheaper TVs will have like, 2 HDMI inputs. My big TV downstairs has 4 and I really wish it had 6, but nobody puts that many in.
We got a 40" 4K LG at Costco for our upstairs living area. The big selling point was that LG supports Xfinity's beta streaming app, so we don't need a cable box (the TV is wall mounted and we didn't want wires everywhere). Samsung, for some reason, steadfastly refuses to support the Xfinity app on their newer TVs.
Otherwise I think the 4K TVs have mostly gotten to the point of being a commodity. You can spend a lot of money if you want deeper blacks or faster refresh, but for watching TV the quality of the source is almost always the limiting factor. If you watch a lot of movies and are using a 4K media (not streaming) I think those dollars might be more worthwhile. The other variable is inputs - the cheaper TVs will have like, 2 HDMI inputs. My big TV downstairs has 4 and I really wish it had 6, but nobody puts that many in.
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What size and what's your pain tolerance?
We got a 40" 4K LG at Costco for our upstairs living area. The big selling point was that LG supports Xfinity's beta streaming app, so we don't need a cable box (the TV is wall mounted and we didn't want wires everywhere). Samsung, for some reason, steadfastly refuses to support the Xfinity app on their newer TVs.
Otherwise I think the 4K TVs have mostly gotten to the point of being a commodity. You can spend a lot of money if you want deeper blacks or faster refresh, but for watching TV the quality of the source is almost always the limiting factor. If you watch a lot of movies and are using a 4K media (not streaming) I think those dollars might be more worthwhile. The other variable is inputs - the cheaper TVs will have like, 2 HDMI inputs. My big TV downstairs has 4 and I really wish it had 6, but nobody puts that many in.
We got a 40" 4K LG at Costco for our upstairs living area. The big selling point was that LG supports Xfinity's beta streaming app, so we don't need a cable box (the TV is wall mounted and we didn't want wires everywhere). Samsung, for some reason, steadfastly refuses to support the Xfinity app on their newer TVs.
Otherwise I think the 4K TVs have mostly gotten to the point of being a commodity. You can spend a lot of money if you want deeper blacks or faster refresh, but for watching TV the quality of the source is almost always the limiting factor. If you watch a lot of movies and are using a 4K media (not streaming) I think those dollars might be more worthwhile. The other variable is inputs - the cheaper TVs will have like, 2 HDMI inputs. My big TV downstairs has 4 and I really wish it had 6, but nobody puts that many in.
There isn't anything wrong with the current one (also a Sony Bravia) but I'm wanting a slightly bigger TV for the room. It's not the main living room, it's in my den (man cave) where I tend to watch movies and play video games. The current TV is LCD flat screen one, probably about 10 years old or so. I like the picture quality of the current one, but LCD is gone now, so it's trying to get one that will work best for 10 years or so.
I'm not worried about HDMI inputs too much, I run everything through my home theater receiver, so two is sufficient.
The TV was on sale around xmas time, but now it's back to regular price.
