I think anything less than 78cm will not do or the legs will be hanging off?

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While you're correct in that there's no additional information available to the 4K result, there are plenty of ways to make intelligent use of what information is available to make a higher resolution image that looks significantly better than the original. Having studied and worked with image processing algorithms for a large part of my life, I can assure you that decent upscaling involves a LOT more than "duplicating existing pixel data then applying a sharpening filter", and the results of high quality upscaling can be very worthwhile. The issue is that a TV needs to upscale in realtime, and good upscaling algorithms require more complex software and a lot of processing power. Cheaper TVs tend to cut corners here, with the worst "upscaling" giving fairly mediocre results. Many TVs do much better though, even down to the low end these days.

Note that even on the example images in the article you linked to, you can very clearly see improvements between the upscaled image and the 1080 version. For example look at the (lack of) aliasing along all the rooftop edges in the first image below (upscaled 1080p) vs the second image (non-upscaled):

http://i.rtings.com/images/reviews/m-series-2015/m-series-2015-upscaling-1080p-large.jpg
http://i.rtings.com/images/reviews/e-series-2015/e-series-2015-upscaling-1080p-large.jpg

That's almost certainly a second order interpolation of some sort taking place, most likely bicubic. It is very definitely NOT duplicated pixels plus sharpening, which would look absolutely awful on those edges! Plenty of more complex algorithms exist than bicubic interpolation but they tend to be reserved for upscaling photos and so on, where time isn't so critical. e.g. look at software like Perfect Resize.

Bottom line: Good upscaling helps, despite what you seem to believe.

Found the model on the Spanish Hisense site. Not sure why they don't have it on their UK website.

http://www.hisense.es/electronica/television-hisense/h43m3000.html

Very good price

48" sharp smart TV is same price in tesco

Is this HDR?

Found the model on the Spanish Hisense site. Not sure why they don't have it on their UK website.

http://www.hisense.es/electronica/television-hisense/h43m3000.html

My lad bought this for his bedroom the other day, for the price I would say its fine.

4k content looks impressive.

Not too much difference between the specs. I find it odd that only Argos are selling this. Those specs suggest 10 bit panel with HDR. If that was the case then £299 seems a great price I would think.

He has a PS4 connected and has no complaints, motion is smooth. Cant comment on the audio. Mostly used between PS4 and Netflix 4K.
I can post more detail once it has more use.

That sounds worth a punt. Reserved one for collection tomorrow.