Need help with LED 55" Panel for my company

[Rakewell]

Hi,

What's the best 55" LED out nowadays, preferably 240Hz, for around 2 to 2.5K?

It would be for video conferencing (Polycom), HD video presentations, etc, as well as Excel and PowerPoint presentations, and hang in our main conference room.

I was looking at this one:

http://www.amazon.com/UN55ES7500FXZA...UN55ES7500FXZA

But we don't need 3D.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks-

 

[Mushkins]

If it's for video conferencing, excel, powerpoint, basic office conference "stuff", honestly you're wasting your time and money worrying about 240Hz, smart features, etc.

You need a decent image, the inputs to support your Polycom setup (I hope they've moved to HDMI by now), and a couple extra varying inputs or the proper adapters like VGA/DVI/whatever to support people hooking up laptops to it.

Go with whatever decent 55" TV meets those needs and is on sale that week. Unless you work for a company *creating* media, I can guarantee the visiting business presenter isn't going to be criticizing the color fidelity and lack of Hulu support on the TV in your conference room, and nobody in a video conference cares if they're getting a perfectly smooth picture of a dozen people sitting there playing with their pens and pretending to take notes.

Any 55"er is going to suit the business needs of 99% use cases. Grab a $900 set and impress your bosses by keeping the costs under budget IMO.

 

[Kaido]

I use LifeSize systems and they always recommend Plasma televisions because people/skin looks better. The new plasmas are fairly power efficient too.

 

[Phanuel]

Disclaimer: I work at Polycom, I could go into a conference room and read you off the specs on one of our HDX systems, but I don't think it honestly matters what TV you get.

What system are you purchasing that just needs a TV? CX-7000 or something? Definitely don't need smart apps or 120hz+ for video conferencing.