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The Rev posted:Huh, I didn't know you could buy booze w/o a membership, or perhaps it's only certain states (this store in in NJ, but I live in PA). Do you think the extra warranty and Hulu credit apply to instore purchases (if they actually had TV's in stock)? That's really what seems to be making this deal a ton better than other locations. The alcohol rule will differ by state (states with strict rules often require the alcohol to be sold by a legally separate entity), but you can always go in any Costco for the pharmacy. Of course you can't check out with anything without a membership... PBUC
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Trip report on the Vizio M65Q7-H1 Pretty decent! SmartCast seems like an alright software, albeit missing a couple apps easily mitigated by casting. The streaming channels are neat, good for when the family can't decide what to watch. The picture is certainly good enough for me, although I'll miss the blacks of my plasma but for $600 who can complain?
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So it you had to flip a coin between the 75" Hisense H65 or the 75" TCL 4 Series Roku, which would you go with?
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Rhyno posted:So it you had to flip a coin between the 75" Hisense H65 or the 75" TCL 4 Series Roku, which would you go with? I like roku software better so probably that
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Rhyno posted:So it you had to flip a coin between the 75" Hisense H65 or the 75" TCL 4 Series Roku, which would you go with? I have been researching these two side by side and my verdict is Hisense by a hair, mostly because it gets about 10% brighter or so. Roku software is probably a bit nicer to use, but you can install a lot more on android since it's android. Irrelevant to me since I just use my Roku Ultra
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I bought a Hisense 75H6510G. It was open box and I paid $570 before tax.
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I have a Sony Bravia I got last Christmas and in the last couple weeks it’s decided to connect to the echo dot randomly and change the input by itself. I bought a Sony tv to go along with my sony receiver thinking they’d play nicely together and I dunno if I should be dissapointed in the brand or if there’s some setting I should be setting differently.
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L0cke17 posted:I need some TV advice: were looking to replace our old tv ( a 32" panel from 2007ish), and we saved more on black friday sales than we expected so we've got ~$400-$450 budget shipped and it needs to fit on top of a sideways ikea kallax shelf. You can also get a different stand for $30-50 that uses the back mounting holes instead of putting the feet all the way at the edges. That is, if you can get a bigger tv but the feet wouldn't fit, you can just get a different way of putting it onto a Kallax.
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I'm dangerously close to pulling the trigger on a LG CX 77. I've read a lot of positive stories about the geeksquad warranty in the US. The cost is no joke, $750 for 5 years. In this threads opinion, does that really secure my TV for the next 5 years unless a) best buy goes under or b) I want to upgrade? $4,500 over 5 years is a much more palatable way to look at it.
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I bought a TCL 65" 8 Series tv from Best Buy at the beginning of November. Hilarity ensues. Turns out they didn't actually have it in stock, but the website ran the purchase anyway. After 4 no-show deliveries, they finally figured out there's no stock anywhere in my half of the country, and the delivery is on hold until they get a fresh shipment from (presumably) TCL themselves. The TV is a Best Buy exclusive, I got it on a decent sale price of $1299 and it's the 2020 version released in August. They *should* be making more of these right? Or am I just going to be waiting forever for a TV that isn't coming. Best Buy's customer service has no clue at all, and I can't find any info online. Just trying to decide if it's worth waiting for the TV I've already gotten emotionally invested in, or cancel and get a different one. What would be an equivalent to that anyhow? Without the ability to go "shop around" and actually see the TV in person before buying I'm feeling way out of my depth.
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manwithoutskin posted:I'm dangerously close to pulling the trigger on a LG CX 77. I've read a lot of positive stories about the geeksquad warranty in the US. The cost is no joke, $750 for 5 years. In this threads opinion, does that really secure my TV for the next 5 years unless a) best buy goes under or b) I want to upgrade? $4,500 over 5 years is a much more palatable way to look at it. Do you have access to Costco? They have 3 years of warranty included in the $3449.99 price.
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Just as a minor warning, I dunno what BB's extended warranty is like, but I worked for Radio Shack for like 5 years and there was a period of a few months where the official wording for the extended warranty ping-ponged between "you can literally stomp on your brand-new iPhone in front of us and we will replace it on the spot" to "you have to file a detailed report on what happened and there's about a dozen bullshit reasons we can reject your claim outright," sometimes within the same month. OTOH one of my idiot friends left a brand-new TV out in the rain and Costco didn't even open the box to inspect it when he returned it, so YMMV 
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Best Buy's extended warranty is the only one I know of that specifically has burn-in coverage. Well there's Upsie (and is much cheaper) but there's not many reviews on them so who knows how reliable they are or if they will even exist in 5 years. LG's own warranty doesn't cover burn-in, but I've read that they'll still do a courtesy panel replacement. YMMV on that though.
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My A8H just did its first firmware upgrade...maybe this one will introduce the HDMI 2.1 support people are clamoring for, although I have no way of testing that.
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My parents are looking for a decent 55 - 65 inch TV for under $700. For whatever reason they visibly recoil at brands like TCL or HiSense. What's good in this pricerange?
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Hutzpah posted:My parents are looking for a decent 55 - 65 inch TV for under $700. For whatever reason they visibly recoil at brands like TCL or HiSense. What's good in this pricerange? TCL. Tell them it's a highly recommended brand now. If they want a name brand, poo poo tier Samsung.
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Aren't 99% of the actual displays themselves manufactured in the same 2-3 facilities for almost all the TV brands anyway? e: I know other people who are laughably anti-Chinese brands like this and I don't have the heart to tell them the obvious fact that most of this poo poo comes from China regardless of brand e2: apparently Samsung is unique in that they are shutting down their Chinese TV production entirely by the end of this year, but I also found an older article that says that apparently TCL is a contract manufacturer for Samsung anyway??? Snow Cone Capone fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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Yeah, Chinese precursor tech manufacturers are starting to learn they can make and market their own poo poo. It's been happening in the lower level space (think boards and components) for a while now. Only a matter of time.
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Hutzpah posted:My parents are looking for a decent 55 - 65 inch TV for under $700. For whatever reason they visibly recoil at brands like TCL or HiSense. What's good in this pricerange? Lol TCL and Hisense are the best tvs in that size/budget.
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A Bag of Milk posted:Hisense H6510G Adding a little trip report on this. This TV cost 10% of what the TV it was replacing was ($250 on Saturday, vs $2300 for the 900A in 2013), and with what I'm watching and using it for, it seems better in every way.
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Thanks for confirming what I thought. They are going to look at the 55 Hisense H8G.
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Hutzpah posted:Thanks for confirming what I thought. They are going to look at the 55 Hisense H8G. is good tv. will be pleased.
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LorneReams posted:Adding a little trip report on this. This TV cost 10% of what the TV it was replacing was ($250 on Saturday, vs $2300 for the 900A in 2013), and with what I'm watching and using it for, it seems better in every way. I also somehow managed to snag the H6510G on the same sale. I had 1 pickup location go from in stock to out of stock for pickup while I was checking out. Rather than play whack a mole with diminishing stock, I opted to have it shipped. From my end, it seems like the deal was available for a little over 90 seconds. All that to say, I am awaiting my delivery in a few days. The widespread positive feedback really has my hopes up. But there's really nothing to fear, since it is replacing a Toshiba 50L2200U.
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Aren't 99% of the actual displays themselves manufactured in the same 2-3 facilities for almost all the TV brands anyway? As a result, shoppers on a budget who are afraid of cheap Chinese crap are ironically rejecting decent sets for cheap Chinese crap. (Name brands selling budget quality at crazy markups). kuddles fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Dec 2, 2020 |
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A Bag of Milk posted:I also somehow managed to snag the H6510G on the same sale. I had 1 pickup location go from in stock to out of stock for pickup while I was checking out. Rather than play whack a mole with diminishing stock, I opted to have it shipped. From my end, it seems like the deal was available for a little over 90 seconds. It's back up to $500 on Best Buy's website 
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kuddles posted:As a result, shoppers on a budget who are afraid of cheap Chinese crap are ironically rejecting decent sets for cheap Chinese crap. (Name brands selling budget quality at crazy markups). The American Dream GreenNight posted:TCL. Tell them it's a highly recommended brand now. If they want a name brand, poo poo tier Samsung. Dont just make sure they get a Samsung, make sure its some QLED horse poo poo
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Moving from a 720p LCD that wouldn’t die to the LG CX is so vivid in 4K it’s kind of hurting my eyes. This is a stupid question and the I’m sure the real answer is “get used to it”, but I read there’s an actual setting for this and can’t find it.
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Fly Ricky posted:Moving from a 720p LCD that wouldn’t die to the LG CX is so vivid in 4K it’s kind of hurting my eyes. This is a stupid question and the I’m sure the real answer is “get used to it”, but I read there’s an actual setting for this and can’t find it.
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Fly Ricky posted:Moving from a 720p LCD that wouldn’t die to the LG CX is so vivid in 4K it’s kind of hurting my eyes. This is a stupid question and the I’m sure the real answer is “get used to it”, but I read there’s an actual setting for this and can’t find it. you get used to it. if anything you could turn down the OLED LIGHT or whatever the brightness is called. I say this cause i definitely had a few weeks of "oh god maybe this tv was a bad idea" but now I can't possibly fathom going back
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The default settings on most TVs is with brightness and usually color saturation completely out of whack so that if it's put on display in a warehouse under florescent lights next to every other TV it looks impressive. It's usually the case you have to turn those settings down, especially if you are in a darker room. That said, bias lighting can also help, and there are some really cheap and restrained options available.
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Incessant Excess posted:If you use Expert (Dark Room) the CX is already reasonably well calibrated out of the box. This. Most of the new high end TVs have a reasonably well factory calibrated mode and reviews will usually call that out. Don't mess with white balance settings unless you have a meter and calibration software. Don't blindly input someone else's white balance settings that they posted online. Every panel has manufacturing variances and no two person's white balance settings will achieve the same output so you are better off using the factory calibrated setting. Brightness, contrast, color, and saturation all all things that can be adjusted without specialized equipment (aside from filters for color/saturation), but white balance cannot be adjusted by eye. You need a color meter.
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not sure how valid or useful this still is but I used this website to calibrate my computer monitors and 55" plasma and it was extremely helpful http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/ e: it's also how I learned that F.lux was badly loving up a variety of settings whenever it changed the screen temperature at night. I can understand why it would gently caress with gamma and brightness, but sharpness?  Weirdly enough the built-in Night Time mode or whatever that Windows 10 has doesn't seem to have that issue. Snow Cone Capone fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Dec 2, 2020 |
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beep by grandpa posted:you get used to it. I was watching Masked Singer the other day and the intro made me real dizzy and flashing lights were loving with me even though I've never had a problem with that sort of thing The show itself was fine, but definitely had a moment of 'oh gently caress I bought too big a tv' during that intro, it was intense
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Thanks for the advice. I’ll switch to Dark Room and give it a little time to grow on me. If it doesn’t I’ll look into actual calibration.
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Bought the Vizio OLED55-H1 for $900 when it was on sale this past week. Set it up tonight and no sound. loving hell. Tried everything, power cycle, factory reset, etc. Nothing, don't have any sound systems attached to it. Time to contact support. e: they said they will replace it Geno fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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https://twitter.com/kristapley/status/1334565615902679041 Me and my CX 77" approve of this.
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