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Time to replace our very aging TV. Been looking around at the choice and specs and it's a bit overwhelming. Want a 32" TV as it needs to fit in our alcove. LG,Panasonic and Samsung seem to be getting good reviews.
Have been debating getting an amazon firetv for months now but notice a lot of these tv's come with smart features although a mate at work has said they are not as good on any tv's and firetv is the way to go.
What features should i be looking at? Does one paticular make stand out in terms of picture quality? Is OLED worth it at this size? Seems 1080p is the standard at this size but notice some makes quoting 200hz and 400 hz refresh rates
^^^ plus been discussed many times. Focus on picture quality don't out too much store in "smart features", add those via an external box, its easy to replace an external box as tech improves, we keep our tv's 10 years plus so whatever is inside will be out of date quite quickly
Get a Panasonic from John Lewis for the warranty.
Forget OLED, I don't think they even do that small and no-one know yet what their lifespan will be like.
4k not really an issue at that size, but that is quite small - don't forget that modern sets have smaller borders so my 40inch sony is not a lot bigger than my old 32 sony. Colour accuracy is most important.
Smart on a firetv will be a lot faster than your smart tv, probably.
refresh rates are to smooth out motion, but the original material has a much lower refresh rate so to make proper use of the high refresh rates the tv would have to do a lot of processing, and in reality most (sensible) people minimize the tvs procesing as the tvs make varying degrees of a mess of it.
Go with reviews from a decent web site and preferably one that has got some calibration settings so you can apply them immediately and get a better picture, as out-of-the-box settings are, for some reason, unbelievably poor.
Don't bother going to the store except to see the dimensions and styling as they nearly all have awful shop settings and clueless salespeeople, or geeks that only watch the highest quality source material over and over again.
Panasonic from John Lewis.
Panasonic from John Lewis.
Just looked at their website and all the [url= http://www.johnlewis.com/browse/electricals/televisions/all-tvs/panasonic/size=24-to-32/_/N-6srfZ1z140zjZ1z0oj2q ]panasonic ones at 32" are 720p[/url]
don't forget that modern sets have smaller borders so my 40inch Sony
It doesn't work like that, the measurement is panel size corner to diagonal corner, the housing is irrelevant.
I'd hazard 720p is more than ample on a 32" set.
It doesn't work like that, the measurement is panel size corner to diagonal corner, the housing is irrelevant.
It does work like that - smaller borders allow a larger panel within the same physically sized cabinet.
It doesn't work like that, the measurement is panel size corner to diagonal corner, the housing is irrelevant
It does work like that - smaller borders allow a larger panel within the same physically sized cabinet.
Yes it does.
Our aging 32" tv (2005 ish) was replaced with a 2014 Samsung 40". Much smaller bezels, but we had to go top of range to get that.
Just looked at their website and all the panasonic ones at 32" are 720p
They only have 5 Full HDs at that size :
of which I persoanlly would get the Sony - I always think skins tones, etc look worse on Samsungs. I always think Sony reliability might be suspect, but I also think Samsung's is.
bezel
that's the word I was struggling to find 🙁
Decided we might now go to a 40" screen and put it on another wall with a bracket that angles out.
If you can buy the bigger one. Its amazing how quickly you get used to the bigger size.
Just got to work out how i hide wires in a solid Victorian wall (with a swing wall mount)
Sony have had huge software problems with their 'smart' tvs. I wish I'd looked at the forums before buying one. Picture's good, though (43")
ony have had huge software problems with their 'smart' tvs.
android tv problems isnt't it, should get ironed out eventually - but repeatedly people on here point out that its not really sensible to buy a TV for its smart features as external boxes do it so much better.
Richer Sounds, Samsung TV with 6 year warranty for about £180, add a Fire stick. That's my plan