Do not wait for OLED. A decent sized *1080p* OLED is still thousands of dollars. Affordable 4k version are far off and there's no actual guarantee they will ever exist.
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UHD 4KTV Future is here for $499.99 by CHANGHONG... WUT!?!
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Sho_Nuff82
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The two smaller sets are on sale by the looks of that graphic, they were much closer in price before.
LegendofJoe
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I'm waiting until 50 inch OLED 4k TVs with HDMI 2.0 come out for around $1000. I will pounce when that happens, but until then I'll just wait.
I have a 50" Changhong brand set I got on Newegg for $399 last year as a tv for the basement game area. The speakers suck, but I'd never use them anyways, and outside of that it is a wonderful value for the price.
The only other complaint is that the power cord is permanently attached instead of the usual replaceable style.
The only other complaint is that the power cord is permanently attached instead of the usual replaceable style.
Yeah loving mine as well. My post from slickdeals
Had this TV for a while now and it's served me very well, though gaming on it is a bit shaky because of the poor response time. Anyway I thought I'd share the calibration settings I found on the internet that seem to help with the color realism:
HDMI 2.0 def matters. Don't get a TV without it.
For the record, UHD is totally worth it, even if you don't have 4K content. The overall picture quality just looks sharper. It upscales 1080p content to UHD. Basically, it will just look like the clearest screen you have seen.
Playing PS4 games on it is amazing. I had my old Plasma hooked up side by side, and it was a big difference. I don't think getting a 4k TV makes sense, if you are just getting it to get it. If you need a new TV, then get one. But I wouldn't pay thousands of dollars for one yet. While the UHD looks great with all content, I don't think it's enough to justify the huge price jump (well, for many people I would say). But if you can find one for cheap that has HDMI 2.0 + go for it. That's what I meant when I said it was worth it.
But for most, it probably isn't worth it yet. I originally shyed away from one, because people kept telling me there was no point with the lack of 4k Content. But I again, think the UHD and the screen quality in general, totally does make a difference. So even 4k aside, it's great.
For the record, UHD is totally worth it, even if you don't have 4K content. The overall picture quality just looks sharper. It upscales 1080p content to UHD. Basically, it will just look like the clearest screen you have seen.
Playing PS4 games on it is amazing. I had my old Plasma hooked up side by side, and it was a big difference. I don't think getting a 4k TV makes sense, if you are just getting it to get it. If you need a new TV, then get one. But I wouldn't pay thousands of dollars for one yet. While the UHD looks great with all content, I don't think it's enough to justify the huge price jump (well, for many people I would say). But if you can find one for cheap that has HDMI 2.0 + go for it. That's what I meant when I said it was worth it.
But for most, it probably isn't worth it yet. I originally shyed away from one, because people kept telling me there was no point with the lack of 4k Content. But I again, think the UHD and the screen quality in general, totally does make a difference. So even 4k aside, it's great.
A MHL Roku stick specifically. If you get one without MHL then it has to have external power like the Fire tv stick.
NealMcCauley
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Heh, someone in my apartment complex has one. I spent a good five minutes staring at the box when I went to take the garbage out last week.
That sharp, eh?
NealMcCauley
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Haha, no, I was trying to figure out why I had never heard of the brand before. My complex isn't exactly the poshest so I also wondered how anyone there could afford a 4k set. The newegg deal answered many questions.
Delta Assault
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Yeah, but if I wait for media content and video games to catch up and actually utilize it, it'll probably be around $150.
How long do you think it will be until the scalers in the 4K will be at a point where they equal or surpass a decent full HD set?
Eh....I doubt it, we've had FullHD TVs for years and they are not $150.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
There are already some TVs with decent scalers. It's not a problem with the tech, but companies cheapening wherever they can to extract a few more dimes.
Saint Gregory
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PorygonVandal
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You can't go wrong with a Changhong.
m_shortpants
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We have a few changhongs at my office, but they're primarily used by IT to monitor servers and such so nothing major.
Don't think I'd get one myself.
Don't think I'd get one myself.
MomoPufflet
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I'd have to buy one on principle if the company had this slogan.
How long are you expecting people to wait? Entry level for OLED is like $3,500-$4,000 right now. It's going to be years before you can realistically tell someone who isn't moderately well off to jump in on an OLED with a straight face.
Saint Gregory
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Yeah, I was looking at 4K OLED TVs with my tax refund coming soon and the cheapest one in my size range is $10,000 -_-
I haven't even heard if any progress has been made with OLEDs in terms of burn-in and blue OLED lifespan.
Well there isn't exactly a plethora of 4K content out there. Waiting is not an issue.
Don't think it matters. 4k is 2x 1080p and 3x 720p. Scaling should be simole, no?
It shouldn't look worse than 720p or 1080p TV of the same size. In fact, wouldn't it look better than a 1080p TV for 720p content? Unless maybe it had some fancy interpolation algorithm to try and make the 720p content better?
Unknown Soldier
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Those TVs have been available for like a year now. Seiki also sells ultra cheap 4K TVs.
It is actually 4x 1080p and 9x 720p.
720p (1280x720): 921,600 pixels
1080p (1920x1080): 2,073,600 pixels
4k (3840x2160): 8,294,400 pixels
The prevailing sense that you should have waited.
Yeah meant ratios of length and width instead of area .
But the point that the scaling is an integer instead of a fraction . so upscaling should be a lot easier than 720p to 1080p as that scaling was a fraction.
Anti-curve glasses
In seriousness, this is a great value for barebones 4k. To put it into perspective, Vizio has a decent 50" 4k for ~$1000 in the P-series and this is going for half of that, albeit without HDMI 2.0 port
I guarantee 4K content comes into its own before OLED is the least bit affordable. This is probably the year 4K becomes viable - especially considering Netflix and Amazon Originals are basically 4K moving forward since late last year.
When LG wants to sell more OLEDs, prices will sharply drop.
The 1080p model went from $10,000 to $3500 in a year. Who knows what will happen this year.
They are coming out with 8 OLED models in total this year, production capacity is ramping up by 4x. It is almost a given that prices will come down significantly unless LG wants to be sitting with a bunch of excess stock.
Aztechnology
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Biggest problem in the equation here is ISP/CSP's the infastructure to make this large of a bandwidth jump is woefully inadequate, and with a significant portion of the market consuming content this way it's hard to say when we will ever see a decent amount of 4k content outside gaming. There's been a number of states in the US that have blocked attempts to allow municipalities to create and host their own high bandwidth fibre/Internet as a utility. Google, century link and a few other small fibre ISP's are working on it, but it will probably take more than a decade at the current rate. Current ISP's have little or no incentive to pay into infastructure until competition is on their doorstep.
Well and the fact that only a fraction of a percent of people own UHD sets.
Just ordered the 49"
I'm going to do the 1440p at 60z resolution explain here
http://www.overclock.net/t/1442986/...1440p-at-60hz-playing-with-other-custom-stuff
I'm going to do the 1440p at 60z resolution explain here
http://www.overclock.net/t/1442986/...1440p-at-60hz-playing-with-other-custom-stuff
Aquamarine
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looks like you're just jealous cause you can't afford a super-awesome wony 4k tv.
Unknown Soldier
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Yuck.
You can do 4K/60 with 4:2:0 chroma subsampling over HDMI 1.4 if you have an Nvidia card Kepler or Maxwell card (Geforce 600, 700, 800, 900 series), that's what I do on my TV. Native res or bust!
I prefer Ramdung personally
Chittagong
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Sounds good to me
You would be surprised how many "major" brands share internals made by the same OEM companies.
That's pretty much it. And 4K home movies and demo players you can steal from stores.
The Real Abed
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I'm surprised Gabe is the voice of reason in this one. He's usually the one doing stupid things.
Dat Screenio quality.
I think they were just poking fun at the Chinese companies that are known for producing copycat electronics. Such as the Polystation.
It wasn't racist at all.
Shpeshal Nick
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Hisense in Australia has a 50" (I think) 4K TV that you can get for only $750AU from JB Hifi. Couldn't believe my eyes.
How you do that? I have a 780 ti?
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