Samsung LCD or LED
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Hi,
I already own a Samsung 40 inch LCD TV which has a great picture and is a LE40B550A but am looking for a 50 inch LCD or LED.
What are the main differences between an LCD and LED please ?
I don't have a big budget at all to be honest and have seen a couple of deals online for a Samsung EH5300 50 inch at £649.00 LCD and an LED 50 inch UE50F5500 at £799.00 but I can't honestly tell if its worth paying an extra £150 ? I have opted for the Samsung TV as the TV mains lead is embedded into my wall so I would need to use the same cable plus I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 so I hope it will connect wirelessly ?
I would really appreciate some help please ?
Thanks again
Andrew
I already own a Samsung 40 inch LCD TV which has a great picture and is a LE40B550A but am looking for a 50 inch LCD or LED.
What are the main differences between an LCD and LED please ?
I don't have a big budget at all to be honest and have seen a couple of deals online for a Samsung EH5300 50 inch at £649.00 LCD and an LED 50 inch UE50F5500 at £799.00 but I can't honestly tell if its worth paying an extra £150 ? I have opted for the Samsung TV as the TV mains lead is embedded into my wall so I would need to use the same cable plus I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 so I hope it will connect wirelessly ?
I would really appreciate some help please ?
Thanks again
Andrew
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LEDs have the advantage that they are more easily controllable. So you could do clever tricks like vary the brightness of the LEDs to match the image, eg to make blacks even blacker. Though how well that works depends on just how sophisticated the LED illumination is.
The other main advantage of LED is it is much more compact. So you can build tellys that are as thin as a **** paper
The only way to be certain if the extra expense is worth it is to go and look at both sets side by side and see which produces the better pictures in your eyes. Though obviously how well the likes of Currys set up their display models and the store lighting can have a massive influence on what they look like.
Oh and don't make assumptions about the mains lead! There is no guarantee that one model of Samsung uses the same arrangement as any other model. Chances are they do but worth double checking before you hand over the hard earned. And in any case if it uses one of the bog standard mains connectors, either IEC or figure of eight then any telly with matching socket will work. It's only if Samsung use a unique mains connector that nobody else uses that you would be tied to them.
Many Smart TVs can connect either via cable or WiFI to your broadband router. Whether they can then interact with other devices connected to your router is another matter. You would think if you have two Samsung devices that they would be able to talk to each other.
http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/led-tv.php
CCFL LCD's have done that for years as well, most LED sets are only edgelit anyway.
Can you even buy CCFL sets these days?, aren't they all pretty well LED?.
Argos are selling the EH5300 Samsung 50 inch currently for £649 which sounds like a good deal, however I can't go and actually see what the picture is like.
'Perhaps' - but there were some phenomenal pictures on good quality LCD sets even five years (and more) ago, comparing a cheap set now and an expensive set from then might be disappointing.
I would say with LED sets though, give yourself time to get used to it - the pictures are 'different' to CCFL ones, and it might take you time to adjust to that difference.
Thanks for the info - I agree it is a difficult choice and at the time we bought our first Samsung 40inch LCD it even took a bit of getting used from our old conventional TV which was huge and very heavy.
I think I may take the plunge as it seems a really good deal and the reviews I have seen all seem very good, I just haven't found anyone who owns one that I can speak to directly.
That was quick!!