What a nightmare, which is better both OLED Samsung or Sony? Sony Android,Samsung isnt, I am told the processor is faster in the Sony plus speakers in the screen. God knows
You pays your money... I was speaking the other day with someone who was using Android on their telly and said it was way down on Samsung’s. They also mentioned how unresponsive the TV was when pressing a button which could be due to the processor being slow. Go into curry’s and find the closest model and see how it performs.
Bought a 49" Toshiba 4K supadupa thingy backlit LED blah, blah, blah.......... A few months ago from Tesco Direct, before they closed the service, about £380 cheaper than normal. Fantastic picture, absolutely great sound, the freeview androidy stuff quick and responsive. And since I splashed out on a brand new aerial never had any digital flareback. A real pleasure to watch.
OLED can suffer burn in for channel logos and suchlike, the lifetime is also limited depending on actual usage although at 8 hours a day an LG would last a very long time though nearly 34 years. For me I would be more concerned that the pixel quality would deteriorate long before that losing colour saturation. Are you sure the Samsung is OLED and not QLED there is a difference, they are fundamentally different technologies. The Samsung QLED sets that I have seen are truly stunning with the widest dynamic range (photography term meaning range of dark to light tones) of any TV I have ever looked at. Personally I would go for an Android set just on the basis that the operating system is now very widespread. I bought a 4K Philipps 43" set about 3 years ago it is Android and has been very good, it has had several firmware updates which have gradually improved its stability, it has always been responsive, the only issue it has is that its off axis viewing angles are crap but then there is only me here and head on it looks great. I would expect any modern Android box to be very responsive so it boils down to what it looks like and how it sounds, plus price.
I dont really understand any of this I/we use our TV,s for streaming in my case via my PC the missus has a bolt on from both android and apple I thought this was a good deal from the COOP 1 - Digihome 43UHDHDR Black - 43inch 4K Ultra HD HDR LED Smart TV - £245.47 Optional 3 Year Television Warranty £29.50 1 - Digihome 49UHDHDR Black - 49inch 4K Ultra HD HDR LED Smart TV - £318.48 Optional 3 Year Television Warranty £32.51 Took the extra warrenty and got dividend back of 5% plus an extra £30 for getting the delivery wrong looks great to me but what do I know
If it last 3 years, is that a good deal. I bought a Samsung 13 years ago in the UK and still good now in the Philippines.
I bought a cheap basic LG non.smart LED job 43 inch about 4 years ago. It works fine....but it has dark shadowy marks on the screen which you can see if there is a pale background. They will go away if I rub the screen with a cloth..but then reappear elsewhere later. I did a favour for a friend last year..a flat clearance. I was given 2 newish LED TV.s....a 24 and a 43. I rarely even switch them on. I now have flat portable..a 21' a24 and 2 43's. I spend most viewing on my laptop or tablet. I have a dud LG dvd dvd hard drive recorder...a dud LG blue ray player..a working LG home theater system and a very nice LG sound bar and woofer. Most recent..last year was a Samsung blue ray ..brand new old stock model from Tesco..absurdly cheap."refurbished"..my arse..it was sealed brand new. Fantastic piece of kit. I think I used it once this year.
3 years is the warrenty who knows how long anything will last? I use the 43" daily ass a monitor even if it only last 3 years and a day £85 ish a year isnt to bad when you compare the much more expensive ones
I have a Sony, well two actually, and they are great TVs and the software is better than the Samsung in my opinion though Samsung's I am sure has improved. The Sony's have Chrome cast built in which was the big selling point for me. I have a sound bar on both but the speakers are good as well.
We have a small Sony 32" LCD in the Philippines which replaced the second CRT, the first CRT I got over there was Philips but I think someone took a magnet to the shadowmask and screwed it up after about 4 years, the Sony CRT was very good and still works it's upstairs, the Sony LCD had a dead power brick within a year but we got that replaced and its been fine since, although it is not a Smart TV, I got it about 2012 for about 17,000 peso which was not bad at that time. The broadcast quality on cable there is so bad that having a full HD set just makes it look worse so I have been reluctant to upgrade but when I retire I will buy something nicer over there and get a digital provider instead of basic cable. Android with built in Chromecast is good and a lot of them support Miracast as well.
Is it possible to get Netflix 4K in the Philippines? I lent a log in to my Brother in law but he's been working away since
We have a Chromecast device plugged into the Sony and Netflix certainly works at FHD it changes to Philippine content rather than UK content though. I don't see why they wouldn't have a 4K version available but few people will have the available bandwidth to use it, we certainly couldn't as we only have about 3Mbit downstream. The player will automatically adapt to the bandwidth anyway.
Netflix runs good for us..4 screens for 500 PHP...Now Im told it`s best to apply for Netflix in Turkey as only 150 PHP! We have bought over 30 LCD TV`s (different brands) over last 2 years..Average price 13K for 32"... Last was a smart TV for 14K.. 3 years warranty these days..Before just a year.
I have a Samsung 65" curved screen 4K UHD. It is absolutely stunning. Samsung Sound-bar connected via bluetooth gives awesome sound too. I was engineering manager for Dubai Media Office before retiring last year, and we used Samsung exclusively. We must have had over 40 sets and I don't remember a single failure in over 10 years. Yes Netflix is available here, with quite a lot of content in 4K, but as already been mentioned, you will need a decent internet connection, as in 16Mbps, download speed for 4K. I have a 20Mbps Fibre package via PLDT, which they recently upgraded to 25Mbps. All of the apps for streaming, Netflix, Amazon, YouTube etc are already built into the Samsung interface. I only stream content, plus Cignal TV via PLDT, no satellite or terrestrial TV.
Well I moatly use my PC to stream as well as normal stuff like here and can do all this from 8ft from my recliner
I would love a large monitor but distance is an issue as is resolution, 4K leaves the text too small and then you have use integer percentage scaling, 200% for example, fractional percentages like 175% don't look so good because it has to alias to spread virtual pixels across a non integer number of real pixels. I am finding that at a range of just under 1 metre that full HD is still ok for me although my right eye is less happy about that range these days. I tried my 4K 43" set as a monitor at one point but wasn't too happy with the results and the set is at about 8ft range from the couch, fine for watching tv but not great on text. For photography 4K monitors are utterly amazing though. At work I use 2 full HD monitors but my colleagues decided on these ultra wide things that are physically shorter in the vertical than mine and have much higher vertical resolution at 1440 pixels vs 1200 on my 16:10 monitors, they look fantastic but I don't know how the guys manage to use them.
