New smart 3d tv ideas

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Hi guys hope you all had a good Christmas I'm thinking of buying a new smart tv in the sales, any recommendations for.
I'm looking at John Lewis (UK) as have some vouchers to use.
My old tv still going after about 10 years  24" deep but would like to modernise.
P.S  £1000 budget approx
 
Hi Andy

Being in the Industry..... my advice is don't get caught up with the whole 3D/Smart TV thing....
Out off all the Screens i have installed i yet to have a client use the functions as designed and most use 3D in very limited amount.

3D is more a Novelty on Small screens.... a fad to help generate sales from the Big Companies. Along with the Smart Functions.  The market needs new features to entice people to buy.
The whole hand gestures and Voice control is definitely less than perfect, and surfing the internet is worse than using dial up.... use your OC or Tablet to cgo online.....  and 3D is far from imersing one into a movie..... heck even the big screen struggles to do that unless you go IMAX.

The main thing's I can recommend would be PICTURE QUALITY above all else. and base your decision on that alone.  Now most TV's will come with 3D function now so you will have it anyway.
They all connect on line in some way.... but as long as you can get to some online services - Youtube, Netflix etc thats all you will generally need.  Like i said surfing the internet is best done on PC or tablet Mac or iPad

Look at the picture and go from there. your eyes will tell you what you like, everyone sees TV's slightly different, what one person likes the other may not.

The big Brands Samsung and Panasonic and LG will be a good start, i think you will have some nice Euro Brands as well in the UK to choose from. 

Good Luck with your search
 
With UHD hitting the market, its a really good time to buy bargain runout FHD. Panel size is your first important decision ... then just pick your (well known) brand and shop for a good price.

As already said, "features" can be a con. I plug a Mac Mini into my panel and have everything I could want. Also, the quality of 3D on typical domestic panels is just enough to cause a headache!

Consider the panel's audio quality if you're not supplementing the sound.

Lastly, there's some excellent HDD PVR Digital FHD twin tuner boxes on the market that'll also accept USB external sources ... some even support wifi/network connectivity - so the panel itself can be reasonable dumb!

 
Kev, im interested to hear what all you use the Mac Mini on your tv for ?  Is that not an expensive way to get a smart tv ?  I have Apple tv connected to mine & really happy with it as it will do mirroring & airplay.  I quite like the idea of the Mini as a media centre though. 

I always preferred plasma panels due to the blacks & motion blur but that may be better on the LED panels now & probably cost much less to run.  Just got my eldest son an LG smart LED for his bedroom but not hooked it up yet.  It can stream the new "Now TV" through it as well.
 
woodguy7 said:
Kev, im interested to hear what all you use the Mac Mini on your tv for ?  Is that not an expensive way to get a smart tv ?  I have Apple tv connected to mine & really happy with it as it will do mirroring & airplay.  I quite like the idea of the Mini as a media centre though. 

I always preferred plasma panels due to the blacks & motion blur but that may be better on the LED panels now & probably cost much less to run.  Just got my eldest son an LG smart LED for his bedroom but not hooked it up yet.  It can stream the new "Now TV" through it as well.
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The Panel the Mac Mini is connected to is a plasma 50" ... our others are LED, but that one sits across from a big window and the plasma's brightness wins.

Apart from the Mac Mini, it's also connected to an Apple TV 3, PS3 and Xbox 360. The Mac Mini has bluetooth keyboard and mouse and infra red remote. I am using it as a media player (there's a Synology 1812+ NAS connected to two networks), but it's also cool to sit back and browse the web, youtube, etc.

Bottom line though ... yes, it's an expensive smart TV - that works really well [wink] [big grin]

Another irony is that I have an iMac in the workshop with an Elgato TV tuner playing programs ... often while I have a MBP on my lap [embarassed]
 
Since dumping sky, I've been searching the web for stream able content. We have netflix but would love a site like couch tuner for films.
The web content we do find is via Apple TV which as a few have said is superb and the mini sounds like a great idea on top.
We don't have 3d tv but have Sony Bravia sets which are superb.
The best viewing experience I had recently was at a clients house. They had installed a projector at cornice level.
I thought it would be a very grainy picture but when it fired up they could control every aspect. They had a viewing setting for news etc that projected a standard 42" image on the wall but also a film setting that pushed the display to massive proportions.
All remote controlled and whether daylight or darkened room the quality was superb.
He paid around £600 for a good spec projector.
I think I might try it in the family room and does away with the whole telly on the wall thing.
I can see it being projected above our fireplace which isn't suitable for a telly due to the heat.
 
Thanks for the advice settled for this Samsung ue46f8000 just set it up (well sort of ::) picture is so sharp compared to the old tv it's a bit weird.
£300 over budget plus another £329 for a new oak stand (no time to make one plus it matches our other furniture)
 
SMJoinery said:
Since dumping sky, I've been searching the web for stream able content. We have netflix but would love a site like couch tuner for films.
The web content we do find is via Apple TV which as a few have said is superb and the mini sounds like a great idea on top.
We don't have 3d tv but have Sony Bravia sets which are superb.
The best viewing experience I had recently was at a clients house. They had installed a projector at cornice level.
I thought it would be a very grainy picture but when it fired up they could control every aspect. They had a viewing setting for news etc that projected a standard 42" image on the wall but also a film setting that pushed the display to massive proportions.
All remote controlled and whether daylight or darkened room the quality was superb.
He paid around £600 for a good spec projector.
I think I might try it in the family room and does away with the whole telly on the wall thing.
I can see it being projected above our fireplace which isn't suitable for a telly due to the heat.

£600 for a good spec projector? i think you mean £6000.

John.
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Missed this!

Well I was going to say Panasonic!

I have used and checked out a few brands and have found Panasonic to be the best for quality and value for money.

I wouldn't bother with 3D being a priority

I still swear by plasma being the best picture quality available for a reasonable price.  ( OLED I personally have not seen in person plus its to expensive)

LED is good for smaller screens and a lower budgets but spend little more on a large Plasma TV  and you will get a far better viewing experience than you do from LED. Yes cheap plasmas are crap compared to a cheap LED.  
 
How's this for a tv ? It's on the job I'm doing up in London. 75" Samsung.

That whole wall came to £100k including fire and units either side.

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Yeah I know Flickr wasn't working properly last night I will try and post some better ones.

This place is amazing it has a car park in the basement two levels underground. A car lift to get to it. Lifts, a steam room, party and entertainment rooms, state of the art sound system all controlled by ipads that fit in the wall. The total spend on the job is something like £10 million.

We've done all the carpentry 2nd fix. All the kitchens are bulthaup and there's lots of them. All the fitted furniture is by "specialists" too we haven't got involved in much of that.
 
Night 2 got the hd working it is so weird watching everything seems so sharp got hd in the bedroom but nowhere near as good as this [eek]
 
Mac Mini & Plex running here on my projector too. Thou I must admit that I'm currently experimenting with using Plex on my iPad + Airplay through AppleTV3 instead. If this works well enough in the long run I might repurpose the Mini for a dev machine. I have the Plex server portion running on my home Linux server.
 
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