Hot from me. Nothing wrong with this TV. You can read my thoughts on it here (comment #13).

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Set it up properly and you will be rewarded with a superb 4k picture and 4 HDMI slots which are ALL 2.0 compliant.

Netflix and YouTube 4k apps work great. For everything else, plug in a Fire TV or Android box. It's unforgiving of SD sources but 1080p and 4k look terrific. Some of the negative comments baffle me - this a perfectly acceptable 48-inch 4k TV for under £400 for goodness sake! Both this and the HiSense are terrific deals at these prices.

I bought a 40 inch one of these from clearance bargains in Stanley last week. It was refurbished but looked brand new. It cost £220 and I bought it as more of an experiment to use as a 4k pc monitor than a TV but here are my initial thoughts


I've been using it as a pc monitor. Initially I had it at 4k 30hz and found it almost unusable I felt quite a sick after about half an hour. I've since got an display port adapter and running at 60hz it's much better.

It can't so 4.4.4 as far as I can tell but it it is very readable as a monitor. Not as clear as a normal monitor but acceptable. The brightness on the panel is very poor and when sat on a desk it gets worse at the edges due to the viewing angles. Again not terrible but just about acceptable.

I also don't seem to have the option to view the full desktop on the panel. I can either see all of the desktop and have a black border all the way round or I can miss off a bit of the screen all the way round, which causes me to lose the task bar off the screen. I do think however this is a limitation of my graphics card a r9 280 as apparently it can't do gui scaling at 4k resolutions

Overall as a pc monitor it's liveable. It's not great by any stretch of the imagination but for the price I will stick with it. I'm not sure you would even notice so much if you didn't have another monitor to compare it to but as I have a 27 traditional monitor next to it the brightness and clarity issues are highlighted more.

As a TV I havnt watched any terrestrial TV on it. I briefly tried Netflix which worked but I wouldn't day I was blown away. I would agree the smart features are almost non existent. I have the 50cx802b as my main TV and the smart features on that are OK but blow this TV out of the water. Colours seem OK on it but again I think the brightness of the panel really let's it down.

Playing ps4 over watch again picture is acceptable nothing special issue here would be the input lag. It's definitely there, it's not crippling and games are still playable but there's a noticeable difference between this and my main TV / old monitors.

Overall at the price I paid for mine I'm quite happy. It's essentially a secondary TV for me. Eventually once 4k monitors come down in price I would probably want to drop down to something closer to 32 inch. But for the time being I'm quite happy.

As a main TV think I'd be quite disappointed if this was my experience of 4k.

Hmm... tricky one. A Panasonic refurbed CX700 would be a much better buy at £450. 50" screen and not a Vestel.

Oh no...

I owned this tele for 9 months and it's 'smart' features are truly garbage. wouldn't recommend playing console games on it either but if you're strictly watching Freeview/Sky, it's not bad. bit of an oxymoron but :man:

Remember AO isn't Amazon either if you're not 'happy' with the set.

^^This.

I bought a 40 inch one of these from clearance bargains in Stanley last week. It was refurbished but looked brand new. It cost £220 and I bought it as more of an experiment to use as a 4k pc monitor than a TV but here are my initial thoughts


I've been using it as a pc monitor. Initially I had it at 4k 30hz and found it almost unusable I felt quite a sick after about half an hour. I've since got an display port adapter and running at 60hz it's much better.

It can't so 4.4.4 as far as I can tell but it it is very readable as a monitor. Not as clear as a normal monitor but acceptable. The brightness on the panel is very poor and when sat on a desk it gets worse at the edges due to the viewing angles. Again not terrible but just about acceptable.

I also don't seem to have the option to view the full desktop on the panel. I can either see all of the desktop and have a black border all the way round or I can miss off a bit of the screen all the way round, which causes me to lose the task bar off the screen. I do think however this is a limitation of my graphics card a r9 280 as apparently it can't do gui scaling at 4k resolutions

Overall as a pc monitor it's liveable. It's not great by any stretch of the imagination but for the price I will stick with it. I'm not sure you would even notice so much if you didn't have another monitor to compare it to but as I have a 27 traditional monitor next to it the brightness and clarity issues are highlighted more.

As a TV I havnt watched any terrestrial TV on it. I briefly tried Netflix which worked but I wouldn't day I was blown away. I would agree the smart features are almost non existent. I have the 50cx802b as my main TV and the smart features on that are OK but blow this TV out of the water. Colours seem OK on it but again I think the brightness of the panel really let's it down.

Playing ps4 over watch again picture is acceptable nothing special issue here would be the input lag. It's definitely there, it's not crippling and games are still playable but there's a noticeable difference between this and my main TV / old monitors.

Overall at the price I paid for mine I'm quite happy. It's essentially a secondary TV for me. Eventually once 4k monitors come down in price I would probably want to drop down to something closer to 32 inch. But for the time being I'm quite happy.

As a main TV think I'd be quite disappointed if this was my experience of 4k.

Heat from me thanks :smiley:

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