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UHD 4KTV Future is here for $499.99 by CHANGHONG... WUT!?!

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GraveRobberX

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Newegg got this going on:
http://promotions.newegg.com/tv/14-...newegg.com/tv/14-4864/300x120.jpg&icid=296157

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Who wants a Changhong!
 
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DieH@rd

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And now we know why China has 80%+ marketshare of 4K TV sales. :)

[no HDMI 2.0, no Display Port, so no 60hz 4K?]
 
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Mindwipe

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DieH@rd said:
And now we know why China has 80%+ marketshare of 4K TV sales. :)

[no HDMI 2.0, no Display Port, so no 60hz 4K?]
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Also no HDCP 2.2, so no actual 4k content.

(Even aside from the fact the upscalers and colour reproduction on these sets are so bad you'd probably be much better off with an HD set in all circumstances for that price).
 
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GodofWine

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I don't care how cheap it is, if you aren't sitting like 6ft or closer, you will barely know its 4k. Great for monitors, kinda unnecessary for TV... And no broadcast content for years

Edit - I know we are making fun of the brand here...party pooper here.
 
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jesu

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In 2004, 90% of the television sets exported from China to the United States were made by Changhong
 
Mohonky

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jonnyp said:
Never in a million years would I buy a Changhong. You get what you pay for. Absolute crap that is.
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Not everyone is as pedantic as the next person when it comes to picture quality. Most people just want the biggest screen they can get for their money and if they know one has a new technology or generational change they'll buy it. In this case, 4k, large screen, low price = what they'll go with.
 
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vwnut13

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You can get a 4K 55" Samsung for less than the price of that 55".

For a little more you can get a curved 4K 55" Samsung.
 
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CheDominik

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I have to say though I would be pretty interested to see one of those in action, when it comes to TVs though I'm a Bravia fanboy.
 
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andycapps

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I have this Changhong from Newegg, have had it for about 6 months. It's been awesome. Supposedly has an LG panel in it. Was skeptical about buying a brand I'd never heard of until I saw a lot of people recommending them online.
 
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zomgbbqftw

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Better to get the Bravia X85 in 55", it isn't even that much more expensive $1800 vs $1400 for this Changong. One would have to stupid to buy this one vs the Sony. Hell, the LG 4K is $100 cheaper on Amazon right now!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00II6VY6C/?tag=neogaf0e-20

The LG is a solid TV as well, it isn't going to be a match for the top end 4K sets from Sony or Samsung but for that price it has HEVC, Netflix 4K and HDMI2.0 for $100 less than this POS.
 
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Aztechnology

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Ramza said:
No HDMI 2.0 no sale
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Unfortunately even HDMI 2.0 doesn't have the bandwidth to support proper chroma sub sampling at 4k 60hz due to HDCP 2.2's bandwidth requirements.


Majine said:
I'm more interested in 4K in a computer monitor than a TV.
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I see less and less reason to buy a monitor over a TV as we get into higher resolutions. The only real advantage to monitors over TV's now is space. Alot of the newer quality 4k tv's coming out have 10 bit colors, with higher quality panels than previous generations. The response times and input lag are also much lower. Going forward it seems to me you'll get more value out of a TV, especially with manufacturers like samsung saying they will be embracing adaptive Vsync in their future panels.
 
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Funky Papa

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Nobody should buy a cheap/early gen 4K set unless they exclusively plan to use it for 4K content. And I mean 4k and nothing else.

Most people believe that just because a 4K TV can plan 4K content its 720p and 1080p performance will be nigh pixel perfect (I mean, it makes sense, right?), but the quality of their internal scalers is downright abysmal. TV programmes and Blu-ray movies look beyond bad in those sets.

Sure, the 4K demos at the store look fantastic, but you really, really don't want to see what a piss poor job they do -a very humble, very cheap Full HD TV outranks most of those sets in HD and Full HD quality, to the point of making side-by-side comparisons an embarrassment even for big brands like Samsung (which is including better scalers now, I believe). Cheap Chinese models are even worse.
 
styl3s

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jonnyp said:
Never in a million years would I buy a Changhong. You get what you pay for. Absolute crap that is.
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I paid $500 (with tax) for a 40" Philips back when the cheapest 40" from major brands were about $800-1000 on average (wal-mart/target average lower end models BTW) and this bad boy to this day produces some of the best colors and blacks i have seen on and has a proper PC mode (why that isn't a standard now i don't know)

Don't knock something because it's cheap and that saying you get what you pay for is fucking asinine these days because this isn't 1992.
 
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Winterblink

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Funky Papa said:
Nobody should buy a cheap/early gen 4K set unless they exclusively plan to use it for 4K content. And I mean 4k and nothing else.

Most people believe that just because a 4K TV can plan 4K content its 720p and 1080p performance will be nigh pixel perfect (I mean, it makes sense, right?), but the quality of their internal scalers is downright abysmal. TV programmes and Blu-ray movies look beyond bad in those sets.

Sure, the 4K demos at the store look fantastic, but you really, really don't want to see what a piss poor job they do -a very humble, very cheap Full HD TV outranks most of those sets in HD and Full HD quality, to the point of making side-by-side comparisons and embarrassment even for big brands like Samsung (which is including better scalers now, I believe). Cheap Chinese models are even worse.
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Finally, the voice of reason.

I've been looking at a replacement TV for a LG set that died this year and is being replaced under warranty. Thankfully 3D stuff is dying off but it's all ULTRAHD this and ULTRAHD that now. None of the sales pitches hold up to even the tiniest bit of discussion, they almost always back down on 4K within seconds of talking about lack of content and upscaling.

And don't get me started on curved TVs.
 
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HiResDes

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I have a CHanghong 1080P 50-inch that I got for $350, and it's really fucking nice for the price. Thin Bezel and surprisingly great picture once you get it calibrated. However, I'd be worried with whether these have HDMI 2.0 or not?
 
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