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I'm looking to replace my tv in my living room for a smart tv.

I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of any sites that review and recommend.

Thanks.

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Don't replace, just add a smartbox

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Well it all depends on how old his TV actually is.

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk

http://www.whathifi.com/products/tvs

https://www.avforums.com/forums/tvs.104/

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You'll also want to factor in a possible sound bar and defo a subwoofer unless you can rope in your stereo. The built in speakers in flat TVs are very reedy.

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My tv was made in 2009.

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Alan, your TV is the same age as mine which works perfectly. I felt I couldn't justify a new one so bought a Sony smart Blu-Ray player for £50. So, I can play Blu-Ray's and have a smart TV and I saved loads of money.

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Why do you want to replace it? That would be a good start before going out and buying soundbars, smart bluray players and whatever else has been suggested already :p:

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4k is nice tho ;)

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If i go for a smart blu-ray i wanna make it multi region as my son has some DVDs he bought in USA oh holiday which are Region 1.

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Even at FHD resolution a modern, direct-lit LED TV like the Samsung series 6 will knock spots off anything made 9 years ago by a very large margin.

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As has been said I'd definitely recommend buying a TV for the picture first, and Smart TV functions second, but there are other reasons to do it.

I recently changed from a 2011 C7xx Series Samsung TV to a 2014 H6xx Series one. Both Full HD. Even though my old TV had a good picture, I have noticed a much better picture on the new TV.

I wasn't too worried about the Smart TV bits as I've got enough alternatives, but I managed to upgrade from a 40" TV to a 48" TV without increasing the overall size of the TV due to the reduced size of the casing around the screen itself. As I also moved from a CCFL lit TV to an LED lit TV then I'm expecting my running costs have come down.

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That must have been a large bezel around your old TV if the screen is 8inches bigger but the overall size of the TV is the same, or am I missing something? :)

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One disadvantage of taking away the front speaker grilles (pretty much every TV these days is just a screen and narrow bezel) - it really has not done the sound much good.

Going from an old Tevion - with front grilles, to a Samsung that didn't, the sound was clearly lacking - eventually got it kind of ok after some tinkering with tone / sound mode, but still not as good. The stand also does not lend itself to a nice arrangement with a sound bar.

They used to call TV sound "the poor relation" some time ago, but if anything, it's got worse in the super slim models of today.

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That's a turism. Our new Sony Bravia smart LED TV has a cracking picture and very thin bezel but I had to add a 100W subwoofer and fiddle with the graphic equiliser to get the sound anything like the Philips Matchline CRT that it replaced. That had 4 speakers in the TV cabinet including a big subwoofer.

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Judge for yourself ;)

Old TV http://www.techspot.com/products/tvs...-40c750.52256/

New TV http://www.trustedreviews.com/samsung-ue48h6400-review

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Luckily they do seem to getting a bit fatter again than they were. Samsung especially went full on with the Edge lit thing for a while, but with the move local dimming in the higher end TVs, they have had to increase the size again to include all the LEDs.

I suppose another factor is that more people do buy the soundbars and surround sound systems now for TVs. Not much point building in fantastic speakers when they'll just get disabled

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If you care a lot about sound quality you wouldn't be using TV speakers in the first place. I for one am glad they stopped wasting space for junk I will never use.

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I judge the old TV to be 987x666x271mm and the new to be 1086x705x308mm

I would not call that "without increasing the overall size" given it's wider, taller, and thicker.

^^ This. I don't even have a TV and I have several surround sound systems.

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Fair enough, my bad. It seemed to fit into the same space

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Agreed, we got a 5.1 Philips Soundbar and its the third best purchase we have made for our entertainment. First being the 4k panny and second the media PC I built.

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Not in the market until our 28" Sony WEGA CRT model stops and that could be some time. Then too many newer TV's are just too big, don't want much bigger than 32" the way we have our room orientated. And can I still see the picture at near 70-80 degrees, OK I can't see much on the current one but I can still see something.

More seriously am looking for something to attach VHD box in back room. This would be small (22-24") as room is very small and would be viewed at sort of desktop distances.

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I got a 19" 720P Digimate TV/DVD combo for the kitchen a while ago. Plays CDs and memory cards, has SCART, HDMI, USB and a VGA inputs. Cheap as chips and works well. Only downside is it doesn't have the HD tuner for freeview only the standard one.

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If it is space you're talking about then you will find you can increase the picture size more than 32in due to virtually no bezel on a lot of new tvs, so would fit in the same space.

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Problem is, the base of some is not soundbar friendly - the Samsung's 4 leg spider takes up a lot of space - maybe a good 2.1 PC set would fit better - or maybe a soundbar could be semi hidden at the back - hmm, might measure that up.