I need a new tellybox

[ladymuck]

Less than 50" screen - the only sane choice is the LG or Sony 48" oled models, everything else is too cut down in that size.

Although unless you need to buy now wait until Black Friday or January for the prices to hit sane rather than stupid prices.

My current one is still working so no immediate rush. However, knowing that it took me a good year of saying "I should get a new monitor" before I finally made a decision, I really should put some effort into finding a new telly as this was triggered by Windoze pushing a huge update last night and me having to remember the custom scaling I had to do to get the bloody desktop to sit right on the screen.

Having done some digging it seems my Samsumg is about 10-11 years old, so it's had a good innings.

Currently I have a 40" LCD and I don't want to go bigger than 50". I don't have a need for anything bigger.

[WTFH]

We have 2 LG TVs.
Both are <40", because they fit better in the house and I find large TVs that take over a room a tad uncouth.

I'd not necessarily recommend LG, they have been good although the OS on one of them can no longer be updated so we use an Amazon Fire stick for Youtube.

Look at Samsungs, maybe something like this:
Samsung UE43TU8000 (2020) HDR 4K Ultra HD Smart TV, 43 inch with TVPlus, Black at John Lewis & Partners

[The Spartan]

I went to buy a Samsung QLED telly. Ran the "thinness" and viewing tests, and came out with LG OLED.

The OLED's do have a better viewing angle and are extremely thin, however they do carry a price-premium. They LG WebOS is very good and easy to use.

At the end of the day, you get used to watching whatever it is that you are watching...

WSS I used to buy Samsung but also took a gamble on buying an LG TV a while back, WebOS is far more intuitive and slicker even my nan has no issues using iPlayer and Netflix on the TV we recently bought her.

You also tend to get a lot of bang for your buck too in comparison with other brands like Samsung and Sony.

[eek]

Less than 50" screen - the only sane choice is the LG or Sony 48" oled models, everything else is too cut down in that size.

Although unless you need to buy now wait until Black Friday or January for the prices to hit sane rather than stupid prices.

[Scruff]

I went to buy a Samsung QLED telly. Ran the "thinness" and viewing tests, and came out with LG OLED.

The OLED's do have a better viewing angle and are extremely thin, however they do carry a price-premium. They LG WebOS is very good and easy to use.

At the end of the day, you get used to watching whatever it is that you are watching...

[ladymuck]

Having never owned a Smart TV, are they any good? I see there's lots of TV OS's out there now.

[northernladuk]

Personally I rate Samsung Telly's.
I have 3 of them here all very reliable.
Good picture, plenty of features.

Same. Had them as long as I can remember. I used to get them as everything I have is Samsung but nowadays everything connects seamlessly so not really a factor. I still can't see any reason why my next one won't be a Samsung though.

[courtg9000]

Personally I rate Samsung Telly's.
I have 3 of them here all very reliable.
Good picture, plenty of features.

[ladymuck]

My current one is a Samsung. It's been very reliable.

[NotAllThere]

I've had a Samsung and a Sony. The Samsung was better. It's getting harder to find smaller TVs.