Should I get a 4K TV?

[MickeyVee]

I have some older TV that still look stunning.. the original Sony XBR II 32" 720P and a 46" Sharp Elite 1080P.
Two years ago, I got a 40" Sanmsung 1080P curved for my office and not much better than the older ones but still a beautiful picture. They're all great TVs.
I just picked up a 2017 55" Samsung 4K QLED at an amazing clearout price and WOW! Netflix 4K and ATV 4K HDR are simply stunning!! Standard cable is also a notch above.
Am actually happy with the older TVs but had to get a new one due to a separation {my ex got the Sony & Sharp}.
In the end {if you're not a videophile}, if you're happy with what you've got, stick with it.

 

[ThisBougieLife]

Thanks everybody. I think I will wait until I can afford a really nice one before getting one. I won't get one if it has inferior picture quality to my 1080p TV. I looked at some in Best Buy recently and the ones that surpassed the PQ of my 1080p TV seemed to all be around $1000 or more. So it will have to wait.

 

[ActionableMango]

Solid plan.

 

[jerwin]

 

[AutomaticApple]

I currently have a 1080p Samsung TV in my room

So do I!

 

[Huntn]

I was in Costco the other day looking at a Samsung 65” 4K TV for $900, I may leap. Our current TV is a Sony 55” LED, that still looks great, but we’ve been hankering for a larger screen. The only possible complications might be the connectors from the devices connected to the TV, but I’m thinking not. The only thing I’ll have to do is replace the component cable running through the wall, with a 4K HDMI cable, but when I installed it originally, I left it so it could be pulled out, hopefully without issues.

 

[VanNess]

On one hand, it doesn't seem practical. I'd say about 95% of the content I watch is not 4K. I own a lot of DVDs and blu-rays and no 4K discs. A DVD looks decent on a 1080p TV, but from my experience, it looks pretty awful on a 4K TV. Blu-rays of course look amazing on a 1080p TV and look okay on a 4K TV, but the fact is, it would be very rare that I'd ever be watching anything at the TV's native resolution. Everything would be upscaled.

TV manufacturers have been pouring their resources into 4K HDR for years now and not the smattering of budget 1080 TVs that are still produced. So what you get with a 4K HDR TV these days is a lot more than just the ability to play 4K HDR but all of the latest and greatest technologies for overall picture quality regardless of source. I got a Sony X900E about 2 years ago and had similar reservations about upscaling, but the picture quality for sources other than 4K HDR (primarily blue ray) is nothing short of fantastic. Color, contrast, black levels and overall picture quality just blows away the Sony 1080 set it replaced and you won’t necessarily need this year’s latest and greatest if your not going hog wild with 4K HDR content at least initially. Some blue ray content that I’ve watched on this set where I also have the 4K HDR disk looks just about as good on blue ray as it does on 4K HDR.

 

[ThisBougieLife]

I still have yet to buy one, but the other day I was at Best Buy and saw a 43" Samsung NU7300 (https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/nu7300). It was better than I was expecting for a $400 TV. So I'm definitely considering it.

Samsung is also going to release a 43" QLED TV for $800:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...ng_qn43q60rafxza_q60_series_43_class_hdr.html

I'll be interested to read the reviews, but from what I've seen in stores, QLED looks pretty great.

My main issue now is sizing rather than price. There aren't many good TVs under 55". My room is simply not big enough for a TV that large.

 

[0388631]

Buy one from a club store. You can get a warranty on top of the manufacturer one and extend it. Back in the days of Circuit City they offered an exchange program for a small sum. You could exchange it within 5 years and pay the difference of your original purchase price to the new one.

One of the ways Circuit City found themselves in debt.

 

[a2jack]

'' Oh lord won't you buy me a 4k TV '' LOL