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What kind of TV do you own?

What kind of TV do you own?

  • 4K

    Votes: 26 23.2%

  • 1080p

    Votes: 90 80.4%

  • 720p

    Votes: 10 8.9%

  • SD

    Votes: 3 2.7%
  • Total voters
    112
I have a 7 year old 1080p Panasonic plasma in my living room. And since I moved to a bigger place this summer I got a 1080p Optoma projector for the basement. I'm holding off on 4K until there's more content and the displays are cheaper.

My plan is to wait about three years, and hopefully by then the prices will have come down enough for my budget and they'll have all the standards worked out. I'm fine with 1080p until then since most of my content comes from my 1080p Blu-rays or even DVDs.
 
The poll is actually missing another option that I could have checked as well (1080i).

I have a Panasonic 65VT60 (65" 1080p plasma) in my theater room, a Hitachi 57F59 (57" 1080i CRT Rear Projection), and a Samsung 42" 720 plasma in my master bedroom.

I am normally an early adopter. I bought into both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray in the beginning and still have and watch both. I have stayed away from 4K because there is still too much up in the air with their standards. I tell everyone I know to hold off until at least next year to buy a 4K TV because by then more stuff should be ironed out. Too many people are going to find out this winter/early next year when they try pickup up an Ultra HD Blu-Ray player that their 4K TV is not compatible because it doesn't support HDMI 2.0/HDCP 2.2, or the ones that do have that will miss out on the Hi-Frame rate or HDR and full colorspace that they players/movies support. etc.
 
I think the results of this poll already speak for Apple's decision. If nearly 80% of the respondents who would self-select to answer a poll like this on a heavily tech-biased site like this still have 1080p TV's, that likely means that in the general population it's more like 99%...
 
Wunderwally said:
That's because we can vote for multiple options!
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I understand why it is like that. It's still a bad way of doing it. Not the OPs fault. It's MacRumor's strange decision to make the calculations like that (or whatever vendor it bought the forum software from). It is possible to have multiple votes and still present the results in a way that add up to 100% and mean something.

Right now, the results are pointless. As it stands, 1080p is at 78.7% and 4k is at 26.7%. What are those percentages off? It's a useless percentage. The calculations above are from dividing number of votes by number of voters. That gives us a number that represents nothing we can easily derive useful meaning from.

There are 86 votes total. The percentages should be 1080p is 68.6%, and 4k is at 31.0%. Those percentages represent the % of votes, which is what matters in a poll like this. Presumably, people voted to represent the TVs they have. If they have one TV, they voted once. If they have two TVs, they voted twice. If they have three or more TVs, they voted twice to represent their two best (or most often used) TVs. Thus, the percent also represents the distribution of MacRumors ATV forum readers' TV type distribution.
 
oneMadRssn said:
I understand why it is like that. It's still a bad way of doing it. Not the OPs fault. It's MacRumor's strange decision to make the calculations like that (or whatever vendor it bought the forum software from). It is possible to have multiple votes and still present the results in a way that add up to 100% and mean something.
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It's worth asking in the Site and Forum Feedback forum as @arn and his team monitor those threads.
 
oneMadRssn said:
I understand why it is like that. It's still a bad way of doing it. Not the OPs fault. It's MacRumor's strange decision to make the calculations like that (or whatever vendor it bought the forum software from). It is possible to have multiple votes and still present the results in a way that add up to 100% and mean something.

Right now, the results are pointless. As it stands, 1080p is at 78.7% and 4k is at 26.7%. What are those percentages off? It's a useless percentage. The calculations above are from dividing number of votes by number of voters. That gives us a number that represents nothing we can easily derive useful meaning from.

There are 86 votes total. The percentages should be 1080p is 68.6%, and 4k is at 31.0%. Those percentages represent the % of votes, which is what matters in a poll like this. Presumably, people voted to represent the TVs they have. If they have one TV, they voted once. If they have two TVs, they voted twice. If they have three or more TVs, they voted twice to represent their two best (or most often used) TVs. Thus, the percent also represents the distribution of MacRumors ATV forum readers' TV type distribution.
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Almost everyone who owns a 4K TV will own a non 4K one as well which makes the exercise useless. Perhaps a simple question like Do you own a 4K TV? Would provide much better information on penetration.
 
A couple of years ago I stopped watching tv, cancelled subscription and haven't turned it on since. It's not even powered. I watch TV a lot, but on the iMac. When I am at a friends place and they have the tv on I get so frustrated with the stupidity on it, the loudness of commercials and that there's no choice - and that the solution is tivo/dvr. No, I personally am glad I have netflix and usenet.
 
I've got two projectors , an Optoma and an Lg in the bedrooms and a Beovision 11 in the front room all connected to mac minis. In my den I've got an old Sony Bravia with another mac mini and a mac pro attached.

All 1080p - don't see the reasoning of 4k seeing as there's no software on it. Also 1080p zoomed up to c 120 inches still looks pretty amazing - so whats the actual point of 4k ??

Got 3 x apple tv's too but none of them work properly.. given up on the stupid things tbh.
 
I have a 50" Panasonic Plasma and a 46" Panasonic LED, both 1080p. The plasma is far better than the LED but knowing that someday the plasma will die, I've been looking at what's out there. I was liking the new Sony 4K TV's until I read it had Android inside. That's off-putting and makes me wish there was an Apple-branded OLED running iOS (or tvOS).
 
Living room: Circa-2007 42" 720p Panasonic Plasma. It's old and low-res, but it's still going strong and still looks great.

Bedroom: 32" 1080p Panasonic LCD.
 
My biggest TV is the Vizio P702ui-B3 70" 4K. I highly recommend it!

I'm looking to purchase a projector for our theater room. Does anyone have any suggestions?
 
I bought a 4k TV when I moved into a new house in March. But I can't really tell the difference because of the distance between it and the sofa. I do love it, though.
 
I have an Epson 1080 projector in my media room with ATV 3 hooked up.

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Just need to finish the room of with proper decor.

In my living room, I have a 55" LG 720 plasma hooked up to the ATV 2...works great!

All of my media is on a hard drive connected to iTunes, so I just stream everything.
 
tobefirst said:
I bought a 4k TV when I moved into a new house in March. But I can't really tell the difference because of the distance between it and the sofa. I do love it, though.
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here's a viewing distance chart for HDTVs but go on the lower end for 4K.

Screen Viewing distance range
32" 4.0-6.7 feet
37" 4.6-7.7 feet
40" 5.0-8.3 feet
46" 5.7-9.5 feet
50" 6.3-10.4 feet
55" 6.9-11.5 feet
60" 7.5-12.5 feet
65" 8.1-13.5 feet
70" 8.75-14.6 feet
75" 9.4-15.6 feet
80" 10.0-16.7 feet
84" 10.5-17.5 feet


edit: 4K distance info --This chart applies to HDTVs, which usually have "1080p" screen resolution. The new Ultra High Definition TVs, also called "4K" TVs, have much higher resolution screens, with the ability to show four times the detail of a 1080p screen. The pixels on Ultra HD screens are incredibly small — even standing right next to the screen it's hard to discern individual pixels. For this reason, you can sit much closer to an Ultra HD TV than to a regular HDTV — as close as 1 times the screen diagonal.
 
Doz007 said:
:D That is one sexy TV!

I've recently been considering dropping down from 4K to a 1080p OLED which will do nicely for the new Apple TV and broadcast TV.
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It is the first time since my KURO that I have been blown away by picture quality. Watching a movie in the dark is awesome! You cannot tell where the TV ends and pitch black from the room begins
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Sharp Aquos - LC70LE857U. Love this TV. Purchased about two years ago and have no plans to upgrade to 4k yet. I have seen 4k at CES over the past two years. But until there is more content, whether it is blu-ray upconverters, 4k blu-rays, or more content pushed over the pipes, I am in no rush. This should last me a few more years.
 
mattopotamus said:
It is the first time since my KURO that I have been blown away by picture quality. Watching a movie in the dark is awesome! You cannot tell where the TV ends and pitch black from the room begins
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You're not helping my desire to go OLED. :D

I had a couple of KURO's back in the day 428, 5090 and finally a 500a which were all amazing but I left them behind chasing slim bezels and 4K. I miss those inky blacks :(
 
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