43" TV recomendations?

[Terry - Somerset]

If your current TV is more than 10 years old and obviously under performing, most decent makes will provide improved and totally adequate sound and picture on a 43" TV.

The additional quality of expensive technology may be apparent on very large screens - for instance a 75" screen will have an area 3 times that of a 43" which makes the number of pixels and processing power critical.

 

[Amplidyne]

To be honest I've never really explored all the stuff on that LG.
It reacts fast enough though. Just seems normal for sound and stuff. The menus the set take a second or two to come up, but then you don't need them that often.
I stream stuff off Prime, and did have Now for a bit, and they worked fine, as does YouTube.

 

[Ollie78]

If your current TV is more than 10 years old and obviously under performing, most decent makes will provide improved and totally adequate sound and picture on a 43" TV.

The additional quality of expensive technology may be apparent on very large screens - for instance a 75" screen will have an area 3 times that of a 43" which makes the number of pixels and processing power critical.

I must disagree about the sound quality, most of the tvs are so skinny now there is only room for crappy speakers which despite modern technology still sound rubbish. I recommend a soundbar and sub woofer as a minimum.

People forget about pixel density.
I have a 1440p monitor which is unusual in that it is only 24 inch size, the advantage of this is very high pixels per inch. It looks so much crisper than a 27 inch with the same resolution. The crispest screen in our house is probably a tablet with a 2k screen 12 inch size.

 

[whatknot]

Curious about the need to change the brightness as we've never changed ours on our Samsung 55". Another thing to think about is streaming services if you're into that as most TVs these days have the ability to instal streaming apps.

As far as the main 43" TV goes, my wife says its got gradually darker and darker over a long period, so have tried every setting with this TV but to no avail, so conclude its just gradually passing away, having someone look at it is not cost effective these days, its a few years old so its done its time

Re the bedroom TV I mentioned, the old Samsung had an ECO setting (I think that was what it was called) to easily change it from a full bright picture to a couple of different settings which effectively dimmed the picture, the full bright screen was to much on my eyes in the middle of the night when I can't sleep, this new JVC has no such setting, in fact its so convoluted to change a setting I have given up trying, its just to much faff in the wee small hours, when the old set was a couple of clicks with the remote

I don't think they make a set these days that does not have the ability or has streaming built in, both the present sets do

I find the TVs these days far to complicated for even the smallest changes

 

[whatknot]

If your current TV is more than 10 years old and obviously under performing, most decent makes will provide improved and totally adequate sound and picture on a 43" TV.

The additional quality of expensive technology may be apparent on very large screens - for instance a 75" screen will have an area 3 times that of a 43" which makes the number of pixels and processing power critical.

I just had to scout around for the model number and work out the year, which it appears is a 2016

Yes I can see the point of more bells and whistles with a larger screen but she is happy with a 43", anything larger would look silly where the TV lives

 

[whatknot]

Last year we bought an LG 43" TV - excellent but a search shows the model as currently unavailable.

It replaced a smaller stop gap 32" TV bought during house renovations which was poor - mainly as the processor/software was very slow when watching online rather than through an ariel. It was tried in the kitchen (which had no ariel socket) eventually replaced with another 32" LG.

Although tempting to go for cheap - in this case it may be better to pay a little more for good.

Yes not so bothered by budget as its her main form of entertainment but knowing what is a good or not so good set is proving to be harder than it should be

We don't have a shop with working TVs you can try unless you do a 35 mile round trip, not sure evn that would help as set ups in a store are likely to be different to a home set up

I wouldn't mind so much but I don't even watch the thing ;-)

 

[whatknot]

I am drowning in a sea of choices, even limiting it to just a 43" LG

Curries have 11 42" LG sets from £200 up to £1500
(just an example, not saying I would buy from them)

The top three are OLED from £900 to £1500 which we can't justify spending unless there was a paramount reason for doing so

So what dictates the speed of the remaining £200 to £430 sets (as in speed it reacts to a command)

They all say they are smart TVs, all HDR all but the cheapest say a5 AI processor , all state 60hz refresh rate

So whats the difference ?

Thoroughly cheesed off spending the night on this :-(

 

[Ollie78]

I am drowning in a sea of choices, even limiting it to just a 43" LG

Curries have 11 42" LG sets from £200 up to £1500
(just an example, not saying I would buy from them)

The top three are OLED from £900 to £1500 which we can't justify spending unless there was a paramount reason for doing so

So what dictates the speed of the remaining £200 to £430 sets (as in speed it reacts to a command)

They all say they are smart TVs, all HDR all but the cheapest say a5 AI processor , all state 60hz refresh rate

So whats the difference ?

Thoroughly cheesed off spending the night on this :-(

Pretty much all tvs will have a 60hz refresh rate, some may have more and pc monitors often have way more like 165hz etc. 60 hz is fine.

I would not worry too mich about the processor speed, all will be better than your old one I suspect.
OLED is fantastic but possibly not worth the money, it has super good contrast because the black pixels are turned off.

A lot of the tvs will use the same panels as each other even on different brands I think LG and Samsung make them mostly.

I suggest a decent brand name is helpful . My Samsung is 20 years old and won`t die, Sony are good as well.

There are websites that review and compare tv`s but you can be easily confused by too much information and caring about details that are not relevant to your use case.
The currys comparison thing is not too bad.

The differences can be basic likeis it full hd or 4k or smaller things like which HDMI standard is it on (1.4 or 2 etc) does it have Dolby atmos ( a Dolby licenced sound processor) , does it have a standard led, qled or OLED , which HDR standard can it do, type of backlighting, energy efficiency.

do you use freesat ? or freeview ?
do you want alexa ?

I was in Currys last week looking at the tv`s the choice is insane but most are huge. I find a lot of them almost too bright but I am sure you can adjust them. Quite liked the qled ones, kind of in the middle between normal lcd and OLED.

If you buy online you can return it within 14 days if you really don`t get on with it.