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Need a new gogglebox. PS5 is coming next year. Not sure I want to get something that won’t work with it. Not fussed about ultimate performance though 8k and all that jazz
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8k makes no sense to me - most cinema screens aren't even that resolution so I fail to see the benefit of cramming so many pixels into a relatively tiny screen. It's all marketing (bigger number must be better etc).
I'd personally get a nice 4k 55 or 65 inch LG OLED display for around the 1k-1.5k mark if money isn't an issue.
Tbh to use the performance benefits if the new PS5 you’ll probably need some of ‘that jazz’. I dread to think what an 8K TV costs, but you can get a nice 4k HDR TV for £300 or so now.
Well. Nice 4K tv for £300
Not so great on HDR but who cares at that price
For gaming tho - you need to look at fast refresh rates. Otherwise it’ll be pants
Have they released any likely specs for the PS5? I know that new xbox is going to have 8k support and also 120Hz support - although I'd guess not at the same time. With that in mind, I'd go for something that could do 4k and ideally 4k@120Hz. Although that might be expensive.
Not much point on 8k just yet.
Buy the best 4K you can with the best refresh rate, Samsung and Sony usually come out top for PS4 gaming TVs
Everything has 4K and HDR these days. If the TV has a gaming mode it will turn off all the post-processing anyway to reduce input lag.
Can't imagine the PS5 having the grunt to drive 8K.
Not into gaming these days but won't the ps5 just upscale to 8k anyway?
8k makes no sense to me – most cinema screens aren’t even that resolution
Yes they are...most cinemas still use film so effectively infinite pixels.
Don't pay too much attention to resolution...its a red herring and just there as it's convenient for marketing. I've got a 65 inch HD screen (plasma) in the house as well as a 4k UHD/HDR/all the latest bells and whistles, 40 inch screen (LED backlit LCD)...both high end Panasonic models and the 65 inch screen easily has a better picture quality even when watching 4k content on the 40 inch screen.
Not sure what features you need to look out for gaming but I would have thought that any cartoon/digital image looks amazing on any modern panel screen no matter what it's resolution then resolution should be the lowest parameter on your list.
Not sure what features you need to look out for gaming but I would have thought that any cartoon/digital image looks amazing on any modern panel screen no matter what it’s resolution then resolution should be the lowest parameter on your list.
Yeah you clearly don’t know.
Yes they are…most cinemas still use film so effectively infinite pixels.
It was 90% digital globally by the end of 2013, so probably 97%+ now. Way easier to shuttle huge digital files about than physical film.
A lot of it is 4k these day (if they have reasonably recent projectors), IMAX is actually a bit less.
Agree with an 55" LG OLED around a grand unless you've got a huge room and more money and want to go bigger.
The PS5 will likely have G-Sync support or some form of it. The new high end OLED LG TV's have this built in, 2020 is the year for TV's becoming monitors, offering low input lag and G-Sync support. Unfortunately it's only LG that support G-Sync/VRR at the moment. I believe the PS5 may also support higher than 60fps, most TV's are currently 60fps.
Samsung & Sony seem to have low input lag for gaming, if FPS is your thing, then low input lag will help win those close quarter battles. 😉 You can pretty much google the model you are looking for with "input lag" on the end and find out if it's good for gaming. For TV's less than 30ms is good (some can be more than 100ms without a gaming mode built into the TV), for a monitor less than 8ms is good.
Personally I think I would buy a cheap 4K/HDR TV at the moment and then buy one with all the tech in a year or two when the prices are sub a lot less. This is what I did last year, spent £300 on a 43" samsung 4k TV that I use for PS4/PC gaming, PC monitor/video editing. I am in no need to spend £2k for a super duper monitor, until the prices come down.
Don't buy a £300 4k TV if you are bothered about reaping the benefits of 4k and moreso HDR 🙄
Isn't the OP saying he's "not fussed" about 8K "and all that jazz"?
I never said a £300 TV is good for 4K/HDR, but they are better than a 5-10 year old 1080p TV which is probably what the OP currently has, its a stop gap as the new wave of TV tech starts in 2020. You have to spend well over 2k for a decent 4K/HDR TV picture, even then they don't seem that great when streaming compressed video from Netflix/online video.
Forget 8k TV/Gaming unless you have £15k to spend.
You have to spend well over 2k for a decent 4K/HDR TV
No, no you don’t. They’ve come right down in price even a good OLED is less than £2k now.
I disagree, they are still £3k+ for a decent 55/65" OLED TV, yes you can buy them under £2k but I've found the picture to be quite poor in comparison. Personally I wouldn't spend this sort of money on a TV with the direction TV's are currently taking, hence buy cheap then buy a decent one in a few years.
Personally I wouldn’t spend this sort of money on a TV with the direction TV’s are currently taking, hence buy cheap then buy a decent one in a few years.
In a few years the next best thing will still be just around the corner though.
Size? Budget? How far away do you sit from it? What are you doing for sound, are you relying on the TV or do you have a sound bar / home cinema amp?
How anyone can offer informed advice to such a vague question is beyond me. You might as well ask "what bike for someone with two legs?"
Not into gaming these days but won’t the ps5 just upscale to 8k anyway?
Every TV ever made post-CRTs will "upscale" otherwise your 55" 4K TV would be displaying SD images at the size of a portable. Though a higher-end model will make a better job of it.
How anyone can offer informed advice to such a vague question is beyond me
New here 😉
How anyone can get buying advice from the forum, I'll never know - everyone recommends something different. Make yer own choice and live with it, I say 😀
Apologies, I know sweet FA about TVs, and i care even less about watching them. Gaming, on the other hand, I like.
As far as I am aware, PS5 will likely have the option of HMDI 2.1 and 120fps. However, I doubt you will be forced to use that. I may well do what @milkie says, get something decent now, then I imagine in a couple of years when they actually start releasing games that benefit from that, get something else. Yay consumption!
Are non smart 4k 42-50inch TVs available for under say 600 quid?
120hz is different from 120fps. I'd be really surprised if many games ran at 120fps, simply because much above 60 is indistinguishable to most people (remember film runs at 24fps) so they may as well use all that processing grunt to improve the image quality.
I'd be extremely surprised if you could buy a tv today that wouldn't work on every input available to it in 10 years time, so if you're not fussed about quality etc just buy one thats reviewed well
Are non smart 4k 42-50inch TVs available for under say 600 quid?
Aside from the "non-smart" bit, yes.
Some of these £300 4K TVs are not really 4K. More like 2.7K.
https://www.techhive.com/article/3240976/some-lg-4k-lcd-tvs-deliver-only-28k-resolution.html
I may well do what @milkie says, get something decent now, then I imagine in a couple of years when they actually start releasing games that benefit from that, get something else.
As Simon says,
In a few years the next best thing will still be just around the corner though.
A piece of advice I used to give to people buying PCs was to buy the best you can afford, now. Otherwise it's very easy to get locked into thinking "but if I wait two months, this new chipset / CPU / graphics card / DDR27 memory / other technology will be out" then two months later you're thinking the same thing about something else.
It's less applicable to PCs these days as technology isn't completely changing every five minutes like it was back in the 90s / 00s, but still has a degree of relevance here. If you're waiting for the Next Big Thing you'll be waiting forever.
apologies again 120hz!
found this!
cheers so far!