Budget TV Recommendations

Fire_fly · 1 Apr 2021 at 19:15

Hello Everyone,

I looking for some help choosing a new TV. I'm very much out of the loop on this and any advice would be appreciated.

I'm about to complete on buying a house and am looking for a TV for the living room. However, my budget is rather limited at around £500 - £600 (kitting out a house from basically nothing is rather expensive). It would mainly be used for movies and TV shows via Plex and maybe gaming further down the line. I'm not looking for anything too large, 55" is about big as i can realistically fit in. It would also be preferred if i had a good stable stand as i don't think wall mounting it as option due to space constants.

I'm hoping to use an oldish Onkyo HTX-22HD 5.1 AV receiver unit for sound so am not concerned about the speaker being good. However, the TV needs to have audio out via a optical cable or would ARC using a HMDI cable work?

Gray2233 · 1 Apr 2021 at 19:22

For that sort of money and screen size I'd be looking at the Hisense 55U7QFTUK:

https://www.richersounds.com/tv-projectors/all-tvs/hisense-55u7qftuk.html

£550 at the moment and comes with a six year warranty via Richer Sounds.

Review: https://www.avforums.com/reviews/hisense-u7-4k-lcd-led-tv-review.17094

QLED with FALD so it actually does a decent job with HDR for the price.

Simmz · 1 Apr 2021 at 21:43

Few to look at:

Samsung ue55tu8600

Sony bravos kd55xh8096bu

Fire_fly · 2 Apr 2021 at 16:36

Thanks,

The Hisense looks to be the pick of the bunch. I've also found it for £515 at Costco but with 5 year warranty, so its slightly cheaper.

I did also notice some OLED screens for about £1K, the Panasonic 55HZ980B or LG OLED55BX6LB. I guess these would be a big upgrade but I'm not sure if they are worth paying nearly double for? I would also need to add in the cost of something like a Shield 4K to stream PLEX to and that makes things expensive.

Gray2233 · 2 Apr 2021 at 17:35

OLED's are definitely impressive if you can afford one, any chance you could go and see one in person?

Fire_fly · 2 Apr 2021 at 19:12

I've seen OLEDs in shop displays and they are impressive. Never watched one in a home setting though. I'll find my way to Costco at some point soon as they should have both the Panasonic and Hisense on display so I can compare the two type of panel. A slightly tougher choice will be between the Panasonic and the LG as they both have their strengths and weaknesses.