I'm looking for a 49/50 inch TV for around £500. I can buy any time in the coming months, it isn't urgent (if that's relevant).
I'll mostly have it connected up to my PC for gaming and movies, straight on (not at an angle) and often in the dark. Also, I'd like to use it to help with image editing.
I don't particularly care about resolution above 1080p for my purposes (in fact, I'm a bit of a stickler for running things at the native resolution of a screen, so would in some ways prefer it to be 1080p, though given the choice if all other factors were equal I'd probably choose 4K anyway) -- what I'm looking for is a good screen in terms of colour accuracy, detailed dark blacks and screen uniformity. HDR is appealing, but as I understand it, not really beneficial in the price range I'm looking at.
Also, I want to make sure it's not smoothing or sharpening the image too much -- I know on my monitor there's a sweet spot in the settings for getting the image pretty much pixel-perfect in that sense, and I want to make sure the TV can do that.
Based on my research so far, the PANASONIC TX-50EX700B or SAMSUNG UE50MU6120 seem like the TVs generally well-considered in this price range.
Which brings me to my mini sub-dilemma -- since, as I said, I'm not too fussed about the resolution, I looked into 1080p TVs for the same price, hoping I could find a screen far better in all ways but resolution (maybe even high-quality HDR!). What I found was the Sony WE750, for roughly the same price as the aforementioned screens: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XMQGH3H/
...But I can't for the life of me figure out what it is about this TV that puts it at the same price as the 4K TVs. Is the HDR better? Does it have darker blacks? Better screen uniformity? Information on 1080p TVs seems to be scarce in 2018, so I'm finding it difficult to find out.
So given all I've said, do you have any recommendations? Are 1080p TVs dead/pointless, or can you recommend one that outperforms the 4K ones in my price range for my purposes? And overall, what would you recommend?
Thanks for reading, sorry for the long post, and if I've left out anything important -- please tell me!
I'll mostly have it connected up to my PC for gaming and movies, straight on (not at an angle) and often in the dark. Also, I'd like to use it to help with image editing.
I don't particularly care about resolution above 1080p for my purposes (in fact, I'm a bit of a stickler for running things at the native resolution of a screen, so would in some ways prefer it to be 1080p, though given the choice if all other factors were equal I'd probably choose 4K anyway) -- what I'm looking for is a good screen in terms of colour accuracy, detailed dark blacks and screen uniformity. HDR is appealing, but as I understand it, not really beneficial in the price range I'm looking at.
Also, I want to make sure it's not smoothing or sharpening the image too much -- I know on my monitor there's a sweet spot in the settings for getting the image pretty much pixel-perfect in that sense, and I want to make sure the TV can do that.
Based on my research so far, the PANASONIC TX-50EX700B or SAMSUNG UE50MU6120 seem like the TVs generally well-considered in this price range.
Which brings me to my mini sub-dilemma -- since, as I said, I'm not too fussed about the resolution, I looked into 1080p TVs for the same price, hoping I could find a screen far better in all ways but resolution (maybe even high-quality HDR!). What I found was the Sony WE750, for roughly the same price as the aforementioned screens: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XMQGH3H/
...But I can't for the life of me figure out what it is about this TV that puts it at the same price as the 4K TVs. Is the HDR better? Does it have darker blacks? Better screen uniformity? Information on 1080p TVs seems to be scarce in 2018, so I'm finding it difficult to find out.
So given all I've said, do you have any recommendations? Are 1080p TVs dead/pointless, or can you recommend one that outperforms the 4K ones in my price range for my purposes? And overall, what would you recommend?
Thanks for reading, sorry for the long post, and if I've left out anything important -- please tell me!
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