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I have this innate ability where I forget about work the moment I crack a tinnie, you should try it sometime.
Kids can't smell the winesweat over Zoom.
I have this innate ability where I forget about work the moment I crack a tinnie, you should try it sometime.
As a guy who used to work at a store that sold them, do NOT buy a Hisense TV. Low end picture quality, even lower end durability.
These days it's LG, Panasonic, Sony and Samsung.Buying TVs has changed man. I remember companies like Zenith, JVC, Goldstar.
Kids can't smell the winesweat over Zoom.
Treat yourself, get an OLED LG, picture is simply amazing. I've always been a Sony guy but i got converted with this TV.
For gaming, i believe the TCL have pretty good input lag w/ very friendly price tag.
I really hate the way modern TVs make you pay for all these features and then lock them behind cryptic settings. It's probably a racket for the stores to sell TV calibration services. For example, you pay for decent HDR, and then the TV isn't set up to correctly to display HDR out of the box.
I've been on the LG kick for a few years now with televisions and phones. They make great products. One day I will own a beautiful OLED set.
The TV will try to fight you every time you plug a new device in, but cancel the auto setup. Go into the settings and manually setup all the input labels to PC. It fixes all the picture jankiness you get otherwise with a Samsung.I recently got a 2020 Samsung 8 Series 50" (TU8000). I got this TV specifically for three things as it runs most of my retro game consoles in my set up: Low Latency (~9ms in game mode), Good 480p Upscale, and viewing angle. I'm pretty happy with it - but I don't use it for 4K or HDR content, so I cannot comment on that. I don't know of another TV that has this low input latency, though, and it feels fantastic. Colors are bold, but you do have some restrictions in game mode. Great black levels too. I have a 2018 8 series I use for modern stuff, and I've been quite happy with that.
The downfall, if you have two Samsung TVs in the same room, the power button on each remote will fuck with the other TV so I have to turn on/off each TV on the actual set.
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The TV will try to fight you every time you plug a new device in, but cancel the auto setup. Go into the settings and manually setup all the input labels to PC. It fixes all the picture jankiness you get otherwise with a Samsung.