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4K TV shopping

boomhower

boomhower

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I am in the market for a 65" 4K TV. Price range around $1500 and has to be bought at Best Buy, I have an $800 gift card to use. I use a receiver so don't need a ton of HDMI. I use an Apple TV for my apps so a smart TV isn't needed either. Main two things are of course picture quality and lowing latency for gaming. Not a hardcore gamer but needs to be decent. Looking at the Vizio M but certainly open to suggestions. Thanks guys.
 
I will recommend Sony 65x810c or during a good deal 65x850c. Have you tried looking at ratings/rankings on rtings? Best place to start and they do a very good job of identifying where various TVs are good and bad based on viewing different things (movies, sports, etc.).

Samsung JU7100 is highly rated, but may be just out of your budget. I bought a 60" Samsung UHD this past weekend and personally stayed away from Vizio due to reliability issues as seen on AVS forums.
 
Caesar said:
I will recommend Sony 65x810c or during a good deal 65x850c. Have you tried looking at ratings/rankings on rtings? Best place to start and they do a very good job of identifying where various TVs are good and bad based on viewing different things (movies, sports, etc.).

Samsung JU7100 is highly rated, but may be just out of your budget. I bought a 60" Samsung UHD this past weekend and personally stayed away from Vizio due to reliability issues as seen on AVS forums.
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I actually just ran across a link to that site on AVS. After doing a bit more looking I am now leaning to the Sony 810 mainly as it is DirecTV 4K ready and the Vizio is not.
 
How about UN65JU6500XXXX its selling for close to $1600 everywhere. I know its an almost irrelevant, but Sony 810 is not HDR ready
 
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DesiPower said:
How about UN65JU6500XXXX its selling for close to $1600 everywhere. I know its an almost irrelevant, but Sony 810 is not HDR ready
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The contrast is decent, as is the uniformity. This TV can't play 24 fps movies without judder, though. If you love watching Blu-rays, DVDs, streaming movies, or other 24 fps movies, you should go with a different TV.

You also don't get advanced features like local dimming, HDR, or 3D with this TV.
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That's from rtings.com. A TV that can't smoothly play movies or streaming content is pretty much a bad TV. I really would like to get the Sony 850 for the HDR but need to add another 30% to my budget and find it on sale.
 
yap. previously I wanted to buy before super bowl, but now I am gonna wait will 850 or 7100 prices come down or Vizio P comes out and Ms are sold at cheaper
 
From another website I am getting a lot of push to wait until the 2016 models are out with better HDR, just not convinced any are going to be $2k or less at launch.
 
boomhower said:
From another website I am getting a lot of push to wait until the 2016 models are out with better HDR, just not convinced any are going to be $2k or less at launch.
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The Ultra HD Premium branding will demand a price premium like you said. The only difference will be the brightness meeting the 1000nit specification. It's not that big of a deal IMO but what might be worth waiting for is the deals and price drops on 2015 HDR models.

Also the Sony 850c has no local dimming at all. I'm not convinced it will handle HDR properly without it.
 
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The 65" 850 is getting hammered pretty hard in reviews compared to the 55" version since it uses a different panel. Looking at the Samsungs now. The 2016's HDR's are going to be $2500 which is out of my price range.
 
FWIW: Save your money and wait a year or two for 4K to actually be relevant. I upgraded 3 of our sets to 4K over the past year and so far I think I've watched 2 movies in actual 4K.
I have 2 LG's and 1 Samsung. LG's look far better.
Beautiful pictures when sitting in the stores as demos, pointless at home.
 
IamDavid said:
FWIW: Save your money and wait a year or two for 4K to actually be relevant. I upgraded 3 of our sets to 4K over the past year and so far I think I've watched 2 movies in actual 4K.
I have 2 LG's and 1 Samsung. LG's look far better.
Beautiful pictures when sitting in the stores as demos, pointless at home.
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I wouldnt call watching 1080i/p upscaled pointless...
 
IamDavid said:
FWIW: Save your money and wait a year or two for 4K to actually be relevant. I upgraded 3 of our sets to 4K over the past year and so far I think I've watched 2 movies in actual 4K.
I have 2 LG's and 1 Samsung. LG's look far better.
Beautiful pictures when sitting in the stores as demos, pointless at home.
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That was the original plan but got this $800 BB gift card to use and nothing else I need from there. Mainly upgrading for the larger screen size or I'd just get an LG OLED. It's not that I have a desire for 4K, it's just what they all are now. Looking for the best 65" I can get in my price range.
 
IamDavid said:
FWIW: Save your money and wait a year or two for 4K to actually be relevant. I upgraded 3 of our sets to 4K over the past year and so far I think I've watched 2 movies in actual 4K.
I have 2 LG's and 1 Samsung. LG's look far better.
Beautiful pictures when sitting in the stores as demos, pointless at home.
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UHD Blu-Rays start releasing March 1. Comcast is going to begin broadcasting UHD HDR programming. At CES they already showed off live HDR broadcasts. Netflix is launching their HDR streams in a few months while Amazon already has some. It's relevant now.
 
I bought a 60" Vizio 4K TV (M60-C3) a week or so ago, and I'm fairly happy with it. I didn't really buy it for the 4K but rather the faster processor. Vizio pretty much makes the cheapest 4K TVs, but they work fine. My main TV is also a Vizio (M701d) and I haven't had any issues with it. Although, the M60-C3 has one huge advantage over the M701d: direct-lit back-lighting. Edge-lit is very obvious when you go from one side of the spectrum to the other (e.g. black to white), which is fairly common when I browse on a PC that has a black desktop background.

So, all in all, check out the Vizio M65-C1.
 
fyi if your receiver is not hdmi2.0/hdcp2.2 then it will have issues with copyrighted 4k material, such as uhd blu rays
 
mdram said:
fyi if your receiver is not hdmi2.0/hdcp2.2 then it will have issues with copyrighted 4k material, such as uhd blu rays
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All the first players from Samsung, Panasonic, and Phillips have dual HDMI so you can output the video signal directly to your TV and the audio from the second output to your receiver.

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I think I've settled on the Samsung 8500. I doubt their 2016 $2k TV will be much if any better and the 2016 version of 8500 is going to be out of my price range. Local dimming, HDR and a $2k price tag seems like a good deal. Considered the Sony 850 but no local dimming and general lack of brightness turned me off of it.

I know I'll need a new receiver as well. Most likely be getting a Denon S710 or X1200.
 
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boomhower said:
I think I've settled on the Samsung 8500. I doubt their 2016 $2k TV will be much if any better and the 2016 version of 8500 is going to be out of my price range. Local dimming, HDR and a $2k price tag seems like a good deal. Considered the Sony 850 but no local dimming and general lack of brightness turned me off of it.

I know I'll need a new receiver as well. Most likely be getting a Denon S710 or X1200.
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I am interested to see if Sony drops its 850's price to compete with 8500... obviously 8500 is much superior but selling for the same price...
 
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