TV brands today are separated into big name brand, Sony, LG, Samsung, etc and off brand like TCL, Hisense, Vizio, etc.
Which one do you prefer.
I prefer the better brands specifically Sony. I think the picture and user interface is superior to the rest.
This is my opinion. What is your opinion?
Thinking about buying our first big-screen. I’ll be watching this thread…
I prefer no TV,
Strongly recommend.
Mike
p.s. last TV I had was Panasonic plasma TV. Insanely good picture quality, no TV nowadays can match.
Mike
Its true plasma was superior quality but also five inches thick, and used a lot of power.
I just bought a Samsung s90c oled. Picture is amazing.
The “best” and winner of most cost-no-object shoot-outs is Sony A95L which uses Quantum Dot OLED produced by Samsung. LG and Samsung are closest competitors, but LG only uses WOLED (you could google to see difference), including for its top models.
All 3 brands use WOLED for their less expensive models. And any OLED IMHO is excellent and I likely would be happy with any of the major brand OLED. I have the Sony A95L77, which is flat out spectacular wrt to picture quality, color saturation, sharpness. It replaced a Kuro Plasma.
Don’t go to this OLED forum, it is full of crazy and neurotic people. 
If you think some of us are nutty OCD here…
What do members with these killer new sets use for a signal that can actually show what the TV can do?
Like what do you watch broadcast NFL etc?
It’s youtube TV here for us at the ranch and the signal is so freaking compressed that personally see no reason to upgrade TV just to how bad the signal really is.
Know there were 4k Blu Ray players available for a while but once again hardware is no good if the media is not available.
Even 4k is not as good as those Sony’s can look and agree that A95L is hands down the best pic I have ever seen, just the depth and clarity is crazy but have to wonder what the true source of the signal was being fed to them is in the store?
Was not broadcast, was just show off video, cityscapes at night, etc.
We stream everything and the picture is much better than my low end tv was. The brightness and the blacks can’t be beat. I have a living room with a lot of daylight. The extra brightness makes a huge difference. Viewing angle is much better too.
Thats a nice one.
We’ve been extremely happy for the past 10 years with Samsung’s offerings due to their great picture quality at affordable prices!
For TVs and monitors, I prefer the brands Samsung and LG.
If I remember correctly, they have good reliability according to Consumer Reports.
Also, the image quality is very nice for the price.
(I tend to get somewhat cheaper TVs and monitors.)
I like Samsung the most, but LG is also great.
Samsung. Years, no decades ago I was a Sony guy. But the Samsung we bought in 2013 still does what we want.
Surprised no one mentioned TCL which is the rising star of budget brands.
My previous tv was Tcl. No complaints. I put it in the basement where there is little natural light. It was only a $400 tv so I don’t expect the best picture quality from it. After about 3 years I had to do a factory reset to it to bring it back to life after all the apps stopped working. Fine now.
I just got my first “big screen” teevee this past year or so, but refused to get anything with “smart” in it. I don’t want to be forced to connect it to Duh innernet, or to be forced to watch commercials when first turning it on, or to only be able to adjust parameters by a phone app, or to have microphones and cameras pointed at me, etc., so I found some NOS of a nice dumb retarded teevee, an older NIB 43" Sceptre.
I was going to go the separate monitor+tuner route, but came across this bugger, and snatched it right up. No regrets.
Decent picture, nice and crisp, but tinny sound from the come-with speakers, so am gonna do something about that, Real Soon Now, like I’ve been doing it for the past year.
Most of what I watch is OTA, which is ironically infinitely better than compressed cable, etc., content, but most of what I do watch is older content, which might very well still be in 4:3, so being able to count someone’s nose-hairs isn’t really an issue. But when commercials come on, with the microprint saying that the latest hair-grow pills may cause blindness, stroke, bloody diarrhoea, liver failure, coma, death, death-like symptoms, etc., those are actually crystal clear probably down to the pixel level.
But when newer content does come up, I’m pretty impressed with the clarity.
I don’t watch in direct sunlight, so brightness isn’t really an issue, and in fact had to turn down the brightness a bit, because I was getting sunburn from white-background commercials all the time.
Overall? Pretty happy with it.
I hope you have better luck with your Sceptre than I did with mine. Mine was in the basement rec area and was only used a few hours tops. It was plugged into a surge protector but one day I tried to turn it on and it was dead. I did open it up and found the fuse blown. Replacing the fuse did not help it but the new fuse did not blow so I don’t know what that means except it is a slow blow fuse. Good luck with yours. I know there are probably like stories of every brand.
Personally I dont miss the days of cable TV and being forced to pay for 2000 channels when you only used 5 channels.
Yeah, when my family bought our last few TVs, we were looking for TVs that are not smart because we thought we didn’t need smart TVs.
Luckily, because we wanted TVs that were manufactured somewhat recently, we got a few smart TVs anyway.
Fast-forward a bit of time, and my family was able to get fiber internet!
Then I did some research and decided to get YouTube TV, which is kinda pricey but offers many TV shows/channels that my mom and I watch.
(My sister subscribes to several cheaper streaming services instead of using YouTube TV.)
Now, you don’t have to have a smart TV for streaming services (you can use a desktop, laptop, or portable device), but a smart TV makes things easier. 
EDIT:
By the way, you can use a Smart TV as a regular TV.
You don’t have to connect it to the internet if you don’t want to. 
I had youtube TV for two months. I dumped it for Sling. Significantly less money and just as good IMHO.
I have read that at Bestbuy the demo comes from a USB stick of 4k material, chain locked to the TV for whatever reason. 
Here is a thread discussing demo loops to download, I might give it a try later: Demo videos to showcase OLED Display (Samsung, LG, sony) The ones they play in stores | Page 8 | AVS Forum
What I use for signals: in LA with cable TV most everything is available 4k: Youtube, Netflix, Amazon. I don’t watch football as much as I used to, but I’ve read someone’s raving on the Sony A95L forum that “Amazon Thursday Football” or something like that is the very best football PQ there is.
Nowadays with the Smart TV’s there is no external box anymore except for local broadcast. All the choices: Amazon, Netflix, Youtube are available when the TV first turns on. I was skeptical at first but now wouldn’t be without it.