when did huge TVs get so cheap?

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I was watching the Tour in a Pub in GC last week on an 85inch TV which I though wow, amazing,
Then i googled cost, only £900 , I thought that seems to have dropped over the last few years.
 
That is cheap. Mind you, I wonder whatever tech it was, there are all sorts now. But I kick myself that I bought a curved Sony 55inch about 11 years ago when they first came out - £2000! Crazy, I don't know what possessed me.
 
The last few visits to Costco (which I dread) have revealed quite the array of massive screens at wallet friendly prices. I reckon the likes of Hisense, TCL etc have somewhat helped drive the price of all the brands down, perhaps putting pressure on the big name brands to compete with lower spec versions of similar size.

Of course as soon as you click the "OLED" button, the price rockets, as it does if you want the more advanced dimming versions of LED.
 
Last time we were looking at a new tv wife was given a fold out sheet of paper that mimicked tv screens and seating distance, seems 55” is our ideal size although 65” could be ok at a push. But since my turntable shares the unit with the tv anything bigger would need to be on the wall and the boss has decreed there won’t be a tv on the wall, end of, regardless of price.
 
gman said:
The last few visits to Costco (which I dread) have revealed quite the array of massive screens at wallet friendly prices. I reckon the likes of Hisense, TCL etc have somewhat helped drive the price of all the brands down, perhaps putting pressure on the big name brands to compete with lower spec versions of similar size.

Of course as soon as you click the "OLED" button, the price rockets, as it does if you want the more advanced dimming versions of LED.
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If you can stretch to one OLED tvs are really, really good, colours and depth stand out so much better
 
Brendan Mulachy said:
If you can stretch to one OLED tvs are really, really good, colours and depth stand out so much better
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That's what I did when I last upgraded. I had a 50" (might have been 55") LED with very basic local dimming. I was trying to decide which would be more noticable: stay the same size but change to OLED, or go to 65" and stay LED. By pure chance I spotted a cracking deal on a 65" with the lovely Quantum Dot OLED screen because the new model was coming out soon, so I got the best of both worlds. Can't go bigger than a 65" though, despite having a pretty large living room I, well the wife, doesn't want the TV to dominate too much.
 
The sizes that are available now are surely way too large for many folks who live in the typical house with their rooms sizes?

Our TV is a Panasonic 42" plasma Freeview and FreeSat capable that is about 16 years old. So far and fingers crossed it is still very good but very limited in regard to modern connectivity. Plus, in regard to size it suits our 'space' though when/if it should degrade or fail the space available could(?) take up to a 48 inch :thinking:

We have a Firestick and a PVR that on its Freeview we can get the HD channels and the Panny shows incredible details on those channels. NB the PVR is showing all the signs of HDD failing :(
 
Box Brownie said:
The sizes that are available now are surely way too large for many folks who live in the typical house with their rooms sizes?

Our TV is a Panasonic 42" plasma Freeview and FreeSat capable that is about 16 years old. So far and fingers crossed it is still very good but very limited in regard to modern connectivity. Plus, in regard to size it suits our 'space' though when/if it should degrade or fail the space available could(?) take up to a 48 inch :thinking:

We have a Firestick and a PVR that on its Freeview we can get the HD channels and the Panny shows incredible details on those channels. NB the PVR is showing all the signs of HDD failing :(
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I have a 16 year old Panasonic LCD.... Picture quality is great and see no reason to update it to a 4K one. It's a Freesat one too. Having recently dumped Sky I picked up a Freesat PVR.

For our house in Thailand I bought a 55" Samsung QLED 4K TV and got a great deal on it. I've just recently acquired a 4K Blu-ray player to pair with it, and it's multiregion modded so won't have any problems with any of my disks.
 
about a year or so ago ( could be longer ) i bought a 55" 8k Lg TV because i wanted to make sure it had the latest tech and would not need changing for a while
there's nothing really in 8k apart from some youtube demo clips and maybe some footage i have no interest in but i can display a 36 million pixel image at full resolution or have the ability to display 8k slideshows if i ever upgrade my PC to enable me to produce an 8k slideshow and still have the will to live whilst doing so

the telly's great hopefully it will last a while and wasn't that expensive
 
We have a hisense in our GC house 65" and it was 500 euros from the big carfour
 
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