I've got more than 1i on this deal frank :laughing:

just in time frank,mines on the blink :wink:

Good price, heat added

​Its an 8-bit panel with 60hz refresh rate. Think I'll wait till black Friday.

The price will probably drop again; but if not you can buy the magic remote control with the 661V and it will be exactly the same as the 668V

This offer is expired but John Lewis still have the 43UH661V for £399 and 5 years guaranty! The only difference is the magic remote control (AN-MR650) which can be purchased separately 43UH661V

Do you think that during the week till Friday, the price is will be lower?

​my Sony w435a I believe I bought a while back around 500 ish is apparently 36bit or 12 which I never really noticed but it does make a difference even with 1080 sources so id imagine HDR would be even more important to have that extra colour depth

​higher resolution will always be better, you just notice it less the further you are away, since I got laser on my eyes yes I can tell the difference at say 20ft even with electronic billboards you can't see every pixel no, but you should still be able to tell the difference

Think Richer Sounds reduced the price now on that set to 399 as well

The 43UH661V model sounds the same but the magic remote control is not included. Do you know where to buy one? with the 6 years warranty richer sounds offer, it's a better deal if the tv is the same

From those of you in the know or more technically-informed than myself, would you say that a) there is a noticeable difference between 1080p and 4k ultra HD in terms of picture quality? I know some upgrades can be technically better but whether the average Joe would notice a big difference. Also b) whether a Polaroid 1080p 55" at £299 is a good value/choice in TV? I've seen offers at ASDA for one of these. I have a budget but also do not plan to buy another TV for a while so worth spending extra for 4k/another brand? Thanks :smiley:

Don't go for this TV it's not a 10 bit panel to make things easy if you want the full fat HDR look for the Premium UHD certified logo,the only sets that are reasonably priced right now and meet your gaming criteria with Premium UHD are the Samsung KS range look for any forthcoming deals on these.

I’m in for a gaming TV as well and I need low input lag, full 10 bit panel and 4k. So far I am leaning on the Sony Bravia KD43XD8088 43-Inch.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-KD43XD8088-43-Inch-Freeview-PlayStation/dp/B01HM7JPMW

Sadly I somehow missed the lightning deal 2 days ago where the silver version came down to £529. Waiting to see if they do an offer on the black.

Currently OOS in both PC World and Currys, is it even worth ordering for later delivery?

​What in the world are you crapping on about? This is a TV....

Last year Curry brouhaha landed me with a dud Bosch washing machine of which the timer is cr***y. The washing light is constantly on and the shortest wash 15 minutes. 30C wash 1.30. 40C 1.08 all of which invariably could not finish on time. Beware of Currys promotions run up to Christmas. Google the ceo before you buy from Currys .. Do be excited by these banters in here. Christmas, beware of Currys ..

What should a decent refresh rate be? And what is a decent ???-bit panel please?

So really this is a much better deal:
http://www.johnlewis.com/lg-43uh661v-led-hdr-4k-ultra-hd-smart-tv-43-with-freeview-hd-freesat-hd-metallic-design/p2663255

John Lewis, 5 year guarantee. Can buy the magic remote for around £40 if you want it.

seen this tv come in for black friday deals in sainsburys but have no idea what the price will b

I'd wait and see if i were you there's no way to tell if it will drop in price but you'll kick yourself if it does,i don't know why but it's just a feeling that there will be a drop on the KS8000.

Any chance of this dropping below £799 around black Friday do you think? Since this is the cheapest one that works I might just buy it in the next week.

Sort of. I think the only difference is the 668V has the magic remote but the 661V does not.

Is LG playing that game of having a different model number for the same TV at different retailers, so as to bamboozle price compares like us? E.g there's the LG 43UH661V at Richer Sounds same price but lengthy guarantee. Spec looks so similar, anyone played spot the difference?

Its the ambiguous marketing from the TV manufacturers that is the real problem,you can get a Samsung UE43KS7500 for £799 as far as i can see that's the cheapest Premium UHD certified set you can get.

Why is the PS4 pro being heavily marketed with all this HDR stuff when about 95% of the TV's you can currently even buy are 8bit HDR rather than the proper 10bit the PS4 pro requires to fully utilise the new features? I mean it's going to work and you'll still get HDR but it's going to be a watered down version of the full experience. This is just like 5 years or so ago when a bunch of TV's had "HD READY" stickers stuck on them and everyone rushed out buying £300 sets thinking they were getting 1080p when they were only 720p because it wasn't full HD.

I almost bought a "HD" TV back then by mistake before I researched it properly and nearly made the same mistake today by buying a sub £500 "HDR" TV that was only 8bit.

We're going to be waiting like 2 years or more before the prices on these things even become generally viable or 10bit HDR makes it's way into the "cheap" sub £500 sets from Samsung and such as standard.

All in all this is the cheapest one I could find that's actually properly Ultra HD Premium Certified - all the rest are in the £1000-£5000 range.

http://www.johnlewis.com/samsung-ue43ks7500-curved-suhd-hdr-1-000-4k-ultra-hd-quantum-dot-smart-tv-43-with-freeview-hd-freesat-hd-playstation-now-branch-feet-design/p2611376

The reason this one's so cheap is probably because it's 43 inches which is regarded as "bedroom" size these days since most people want these modern 4k TV's in sizes like 50+ or 60+

All the 4k TV's in the £300-£700 odd range that say ultra HD on them are 4k with 8bit (partial) HDR and the ones that say ultra HD premium are 4k with 10bit (full) HDR.

The ultra HD premium logo is what someone posted above and it looks like a rainbow coloured hourglass.

8bit can display 16 million or so colours and 10bit can display about 1 billion.

Can anyone who bought this advise how good the SD upscaling is for this model?
Most of the TV I watch is still SD but I would rather buy a 4K TV for long term.

does HDMI support 4k @ 60 Hz plus chroma 4:4:4? I cannot find any confirmation for this, I would like to use it as a monitor

I'm impressed - so regardless of whether your eye is 1cm from the screen or 1km away, you can still resolve every single pixel!

ha yes i see now, its on top the tv, im crap a where's wally too.

Exactly, go back to a 720p phone and you will barely tell the difference after a few days :P .its its stupid that there are 2k and 4k screens on phones, the only benefit is for VR like the Gear VR.

I Think some people forget this when they buy their 1080p phone with 400dpi, looking at it from 1ft away from their face. Or their new mac laptop with a fancy retina display because retina means eye and eye is the best also a foot from their face.

I can see the difference between 1080p, 4k, 5k in the edges of images regardless of the distance

Just go to your local KFC and look at their 4k+ screens they use for menus, from about 15 ft away and remember the days when these were at best printed or 1080p and you found yourself climbing the walls to see anything.

I wish people would just remove HDR from the descriptions on anything below £2k :smile:

Still an 8 bit TV the link i previous;y left you is your best bet it is Premium UHD certified forget about the need to spend £2k thats pie in the sky as long as you see the Premium UHD certification you will be fine.

Thanks, that's good info. What are your thoughts on the 43uh750v as a replacement for the 661v? http://www.richersounds.ie/p-201925-43uh750v.aspx

I'm not sure there is a 43-inch screen that meets your criteria. You really need local dimming and high peak brightness to see much of a difference with HDR and right now that means a bit £2k TV :/ I speak having gone on the same quest as you, taking HDR blu-rays to AV showrooms, and coming to the conclusion that it's KS9500, OLED or bust.

Please gentlemen, PS4 AND XBONE are both equally terrible.

You can see both her hands.

Thanks for confirming. So I spoke with Richersounds and they will allow return based on ling distance sales act. My main reason for new TV was ps4pro 4k HDR gaming so I'm looking for a decent alternative not much more expensive which ticks the boxes. LG 49UH770V seems my best bet for 10bit panel and good response time but I notice it's side lit LED. Also my main reason for 43inch was available space http://www.richersounds.ie/prodcompare.aspx?pid1=202093&pid2=201912

Argos seem to be doing some kind of sale right now, I just ordered the Philips 43 in 4k TV at 399 and it came up at checkout at 379......so at that price it is a no brainer.

Gutted I missed 49UH850V, when it was cheaper. Currys added additional £20 or £30 discount, so I was hoping the price would go further down, which did not happen - it went up :/

Xbox S is a rubbish 4k Blu Ray player tho so it negates the difference....

You would still be dissapointed with the Sony they don't seem to do 10 bit until much further up their range what about this it meets your criteria http://www.richersounds.ie/p-202072-ue43ks7500.aspx

So I've ballsed up, got this TV from Richer Sounds two weeks ago and thanks to this thread confirmed it isn't a 10bit panel which was one of the things I was after. What do people think of this as an alternative? http://www.richersounds.ie/p-202223-bravia-kd43xd8088.aspx

You won't be able to get proper HDR from the display as its not 10bit panel

I really want to get this for my Xbox one S.
I only have a budget if £450 so this suits me perfectly. I have a 6 year old Toshiba regza so I'm sure this will blow me away. Anyone with Xbox one S care to offer how it looks and plays. I know hdr is disabled in game mode but it may be patched in the future.
Surely it must have as good if not better input lag than my old Toshiba.- I don't actually notice any blur or lag on my Toshiba but maybe I'm just used to it.

Went to Currys to buy the TV.

But left straight after... the TV is very fat. Looks like it was made in 2013 than 2016.

​Ah right, FFS what are these companies up to now. I can't believe this stuff gets passed rules and regulations.

Surely from an advertisement stance, these are not doing what they say in the tin!!

Has anyone found any good calibration settings they can share?

This is a fantastic TV.

Don't worry to much about the faux 4K comments and the viewing distance. The comments are probably correct from a technical viewpoint, but you can get bogged down with all the various details and end up not buying anything.

I bought this TV on Friday after previously buying Only Samsung TV's for a good few years and I can honestly say its the best picture I've seen on a TV I've owned.Yes you can get better displays but you will probably have to pay at least twice as much. The 4K via YouTube is fantastic and you can definitely see the difference between that and Standard HD. I watched Planet Earth 2 on Sunday and although this was filmed in 4K but not Broadcast in it, the display was brilliant.
As always take some time to configure the display settings as the defaults are never very good.

Is it possible for a lower price when Black Friday comes?

Forget about what individual makers are calling their set's(excluding Sony) you need to see the uhd premium branding to ensure 10 bit and the luminescence required for HDR 10 to work.

It is Faux-K only LG sell panels like this(RGBW) it does indeed have the correct amount of pixels but 25% of them are white therefore cannot emit colour.As far as i can see it is only the UH6XX sets that have this panel fitted.Here's a link with greater detail.

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/rgbw-201510084189.htm

Whats this Faux K everyone is throwing around?

A 4K display is 3840x2160 pixels.... thats it. You cant fake that.

HDR on the other hand can be. Stop calling it Faux K, its not the resolution that is fake, its the HDR, and they have naff all to do with each other.

If you want full HDR, you must read the finer details (not just the marketing jargon) and make sure the panel itself is 10bit. If it is, then it will have full HDR10.

did you get the 43inch?
how does day time telly/SD like eastenders/jeremy kyle show look?

​http://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/252549e

Can someone bring this to New Zealand for me. I'd be saving $1000 :disappointed:

This is a great deal by the way. I got the LG 43UH661V which I believe is richer sounds name for this same model about a week ago for 499

from experience I would want a extended warranty with lg TVs. if you do buy this make sure you turn the brightness down to 80% as it reduces the failure rate of the LEDs.

Where can you see this is an 8bit display? I was under the impression LG TVs labeled HDR Pro were all 10bit.

It was Sarcasm my good man :wink:

Frank you're forgetting something - what's the further discount code?

Got this telly a few months ago and love it. Decent sound and magic remote controls my TiVo, DVD etc too. Careful if buying in store as they signed me up for support using debit card details without asking, very sly.

Really tempted by this model purely for the Harman Kardon speakers, if it had 3D as well I'd be sold at this price. Heat added anyway.

TV's in this price range really should a minimum of 4 HDMI ports. Anything less is poor and shortcutting IMHO.

Reduced to clear in Tesco £364 if I remember correctly.

Not really. The reason CRT died was because the size. In most cases the LCD picture quality was worse than CRT at the onset...but everybody wanted that thin TV that didn't hulk.out the corner of the room.

Yep, Shokz thanks for explaining that :smiley: .That's what I mean by not full 4K

If everyone gave a **** what these people say about viewing distances we'd still be watching CRT.
I have a 43" Sony 4K at a viewing distance of 7ft, the picture looks amazing in 4k from netflix and youtube. And yes I can see the difference over 1080P :stuck_out_tongue:

Basically normal displays have RGB sub-pixel arrays, whereas these cheap LG displays are RGBW, yet each pixel is still formed using three sub-pixels. It means normally pixels are RGB RGB RGB RGB, whereas these are RGB WRG BWR GBW. It means only one in four pixels can actually display all colours. It's actually pretty much fine for movies and TV, but small text in games can sometimes look pretty bad and they'd be terrible used with a PC.


It depends how you define pixels - they have the correct number of sub-pixels and therefore complete pixels (see above), but the number of sub-pixels that actually display colour is reduced by 25%.

Anyone know if due to the twin tuners, whether you can record two things at once onto a HDD, or record one thing and watch another?? Really been wondering whats the point in the twin tuners on a lot of these TV's. Would be a nice feature if you can do that!!

Thanks!

Seems a good price.

Been looking at TVs around this size. Trying to hold off till black Friday though.

This is tempting.

Any good for PS4 Pro?

My opinion

People I can confirm this is one of LG faux 4K panels. HDR is not full HDR so can’t display all the colours and only limited sources like straight from Netflix not everything will be display in HDR. But regardless of not being real 4K or not being able to process full HDR, you won’t notice the difference due to the size being too small.

Its better to purchase http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sony-bravia-kdl48wd653-48-full-hd-smart-tv-with-freeview-hdd-rec-usb-playback-energy-2540272

whats the difference between this and the argos 43UH650V?

got this model in 55inches version and i can say it a good offer. Picture is sharp, got 1600mhz panel(55inch) and on console games working smoothly. In this tv is 1200mhz but for this size of the screen is enough. Pixel dimming option working well, and you can achive really black colour. Its a 8 bit panel so HDR working not very good but doing job if you gonna use our own settings before watching netflix.

3D is dead, thank god. :smiley:

just in time frank,mines on the blink :wink:

I think some people don't know their4k from their HDR! Yes some TVs have a faux version of HDR. But, there's no arguing whether a tv is 4k or not is there? It either has enough pixels or it doesn't? :confused:

Do people realise how close you need to sit to the tv to benefit from 4K ?
https://www.avforums.com/article/tv-full-hd-ultra-hd-4k-viewing-distance-guide.10704

It is a RGBW panel according to the displayspecification.com site.

Thanks Frank. Heat added :smiley:

you guys and gals can pay £1.50 for flubit elite and get a better deal fyi :smiley:

5% quidco with currys so less than 399

These TV deal posts get clogged up with someone saying "This TV is not real 4k" or that it's "faux K" . It's quickly followed by someone asking what exactly that means.
I think there should be a sticky somewhere explaining panels for people to refer too.
I also think the industry needs simplifying coz it's too confusing for your average Joe

heated up :smile: but if only it was 3d too!!!....If anyone knows of any good 40 inch to 43inch 4k tv's then please do let us know :smiley:

Good price, heat added

​what do you mean not real 4k display?

I'll wait for the 49"or 55" to drop because 43" for the front room seems on the smaller size!
but i think this is perfect for the bedroom...

oh don't forget these aren't really 4k displays but still does ok job! and you get that magic remote so not bad.
if it was sub -£350 I would of gotten this regardless!

49" - 49UH668V
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-home-entertainment/televisions/televisions/lg-49uh668v-smart-4k-ultra-hd-hdr-49-led-tv-10144965-pdt.html#srcid=11026

55" - 55UH668V
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-home-entertainment/televisions/televisions/lg-55uh668v-smart-4k-ultra-hd-hdr-55-led-tv-10144760-pdt.html#srcid=11026

I've got more than 1i on this deal frank :laughing: