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SD on a 40" 4k set?
Seen an UHD set at Richer Sounds - 40" and looks just the job (don't want anything bigger)
There's babble on the RS website that a UHD TV can actually "improve" the quality of SD and HD; "but not, obviously, up to 4k standard". But what does SD look like on a small-ish 4k set? Simple queation - would it be better than on an *ordinary* 40" set, or are there far too many other factors to be taken into consideration? Thanks
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Far too many factors - but a good quality Full HD set will give a better picture than a cheap 4K set, in either SD or HD.
If you're buying, then you really need to do side by side comparisons in all modes. |
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Far too many factors - but a good quality Full HD set will give a better picture than a cheap 4K set, in either SD or HD.
If you're buying, then you really need to do side by side comparisons in all modes. Think I'll keep my hands in my pockets until there are more HD channels and prices of god quality sets tumble as they always do! |
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That's pretty much what I thought. Trouble is - TV shops always show the finest quality DVD on a loop. They don't tend to show the normal SD programmes - and when you ask it's strange how "it's not connected to an aerial"....
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Go to a better shop then
![]() .....Argos and a Richer Sounds tucked miles away! No chance with the first two and with RS there is eff-all chance of parking.Whatever happened to Comet - who I thought they were half-decent before they collapsed. North West Manchester and there isn't another major electrical store in sight. |
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Pah! We've got Currys
.....Argos and a Richer Sounds tucked miles away! No chance with the first two and with RS there is eff-all chance of parking.Whatever happened to Comet - who I thought they were half-decent before they collapsed. North West Manchester and there isn't another major electrical store in sight. There's Sound and Vision at Bolton. |
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Whatever happened to Comet - who I thought they were half-decent before they collapsed.
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Pah! We've got Currys
.....Argos and a Richer Sounds tucked miles away! No chance with the first two and with RS there is eff-all chance of parking.Parking... in central Manchester.... ha ha ha ha. Nope. Use a car park near by then walk the short distance to the store. If you want to park directly outside a store then you're going to end up at a place that sells fridges, washing machines, deep fat fryers, toasters and microwave ovens. Take your pick. |
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There's Sound and Vision at Bolton.
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Actually you've got more choice than you think. There's Audio T/Practical Hi-Fi at 63-65 Bridge Street. On the opposite side of the road (54 Bridge Street) there's Super-Fi. These are both specialist Hi-Fi and AV firms and part of national chains. Richers is just down the road on Deansgate
. Has to be LG as they are the only ones with the Now TV app which prevents mauling round with (yet more) boxes, leads etc. There is the option of chromecast but no idea what quality that gives.
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Nope. Dead, died, gone to meet it's maker and allegedly didn't honour paid orders before it collapsed. http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/..._doors/?ref=mr
That's awful! Didn't know they had gone under! Are these people still going? http://www.simplyelectricals.co.uk/ultra-hd-4k-tvs |
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That's awful! Didn't know they had gone under!
Are these people still going? http://www.simplyelectricals.co.uk/ultra-hd-4k-tvs Did a test on my old man's 40" LG TV (standard HD not UHD) - streamed Eurosport from my laptop via HDMI and the picture was more than acceptable. May go down the ordinary 40" HD route as I reckon NOW and Eurosport will be fine on it; and kick SD channels into touch. Hopefully all the ex-red button Olympic channels will be avalable on the BBC Sport app and that's pretty good quality too. |
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I have just upgraded from an expensive 55" 1080p Panasonic plasma to a 4K 55" cheap Hisense LCD and SD is not that much worse than the plasma. Basically crap in - crap out and can certainly say the Hisense works absolute wonders upscaling everything.
I only got a real sense of the upscaling being done when I played a dvd rip or 720p rip on my HTPC and you see how little of the 4K real estate these natively take up. Makes very little sense to purchase a 1080p tv at this point because the price differential vs 4K is virtually none now ... only thing I would say is that you would pay a premium for a 40" model over the default 50" as they are virtually the same price. |
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That's pretty much what I thought. Trouble is - TV shops always show the finest quality DVD on a loop. They don't tend to show the normal SD programmes - and when you ask it's strange how "it's not connected to an aerial"....
Think I'll keep my hands in my pockets until there are more HD channels and prices of god quality sets tumble as they always do! |
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Makes very little sense to purchase a 1080p tv at this point because the price differential vs 4K is virtually none now ... only thing I would say is that you would pay a premium for a 40" model over the default 50" as they are virtually the same price.
However, as long as you're happy with your Hisense, that's all that matters. |
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Except you get a crap 4K set for the same price as a good Full HD set, and the Full HD set will give a better picture than the cheap 4K.
However, as long as you're happy with your Hisense, that's all that matters. |
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have you got John Lewis \ Sony center or Panasonic shop near you or local TV shop they will show network TV
I live in an area technology left behind. Currys, Argos and - er - that's it. So much for the white heat of technology, all the decent shops have gone and we're left with a charity shop wall-to-wall with CRT's ![]() Have a feeling that unless you watch a 40" TV at arm's length, you won't see much difference between 4k (when the channels kick in) and HD, maybe even 720 which Eurosport Player broadcasts in? I sit a good 3 strides from the screen, often further. |
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Behave!
I live in an area technology left behind. Currys, Argos and - er - that's it. So much for the white heat of technology, all the decent shops have gone and we're left with a charity shop wall-to-wall with CRT's ![]() Sorry, but I think you might be part of the reason why there's fewer TV shops around. Sounds to me like you're one of those folk who spend more time moaning about the lack of local choice and then go and buy online to save £20. |
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Go to a better shop then
![]() Perhaps that's why they still seem to be successful while the Currys is in retreat. Certainly I've bought stuff from there in preference to big-box shops or online. At least I can probably take the TV or white goods home with me that day rather than wait for Currys to "order it in" from a warehouse hundreds of miles away |
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Behave yourself! You've got John Lewis at Cheadle Royal. There's Euronics stores dotted about as well: Sale, Cheadle, Wilmslow, Stockport, Denton, Gatley, Hyde, Eccles etc.
Sorry, but I think you might be part of the reason why there's fewer TV shops around. Sounds to me like you're one of those folk who spend more time moaning about the lack of local choice and then go and buy online to save £20. |
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Except you get a crap 4K set for the same price as a good Full HD set, and the Full HD set will give a better picture than the cheap 4K.
However, as long as you're happy with your Hisense, that's all that matters. ![]() The upscaling on the Hisense is just brilliant thanks and the FALD makes it punch way above it's price. |
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The upscaling on the Hisense is just brilliant thanks and the FALD makes it punch way above it's price.
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I live in South Lancs on the edge of Gr Manchester - nowhere near those places, the nearest mentioned is Eccles! Should have shops like that on my doorstep. Used to - but they're all closed now. My place only does a good line in 99p, betting, charity and pawn shops.
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Verily. 'Tis known to cause great vexation to yon wattle and daub establishmented purveyors of magic looking boxes when jackanapes come thither with nought but intent to prattle until the cock doth crow next morn, and then abscond with not a shilling parting from thy purse. Note ye who howls first as if most sorely pricked when such establishments doth cease to trade. "Oh woe, much is my torment" they sayeth "for such good folk as these now reside in the gutter and I am want of such splendid service". Stand not amazed say I, for truly thy did become the architect of thine own downfall whence and always thy did connive to deceive for such paltry and transient gain.
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.....Argos and a Richer Sounds tucked miles away! No chance with the first two and with RS there is eff-all chance of parking.
Has to be LG as they are the only ones with the Now TV app which prevents mauling round with (yet more) boxes, leads etc. There is the option of chromecast but no idea what quality that gives.

