Which TV?

[admin_exported]

I will be buying a TV soon, I have maxium £1600, NO MORE!

So I was looking round at TV's and I have come up with a list

The new sony Z5500,

SAMSUNG UE46B8000

SAMSUNG PS50B850

Please help, thanks

 

[D.J.KRIME]

I personally would get the PS050B850, a cracking looking plasma with fantastic PQ to boot.

 

[Anonymous]

Is the PS050B850 a new TV because it is not listed on Samsungs website.

 

[D.J.KRIME]

Yes it is a new model and it has only been avalible for a few weeks, but as to why it is not on Samsungs website I don't know.

 

[Anonymous]

That is good to hear, I wonder which delivers deeper blacks, the Samsung LED or the Samsung Plasma, because LED's can adjust the amount of light around the screen.

 

[Andrew Everard]

The plasma, as when pixels are off - ie showing black - there is no light at all coming from them. LCDs, be they backlit or edge-lit, still have the possibility of some light scatter.

Only when locally-dimming LED arrays become more available will LCD be able to come closer to matching this characteristic.

 

[Anonymous]

So for black levels, the plasma is the way to go, the only thing I don't like about plasma quite as much is that the colours seem to be slightly darker, they have a black tint to them.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm getting the new Sony Z5500 myself!!

Not a fan of Samsung plus normally there speakers are not to hot.

 

[Anonymous]

i agree on that one, but I already have a decent speaker system so I'm not to bothered there.

 

[D.J.KRIME]

priesty:

Not a fan of Samsung plus normally there speakers are not to hot.

I can't say I have ever tried the built in ones on my Samsung but IMHO 99% of people with a screen that big will have a dedicated sound system so the ability of any onboard speakers becomes redundant.

 

[Anonymous]

The Samsung 50B850 produces a stunning picture using the inbuilt tuner so I assume it only gets better using a high definition source.

It would be interesting to see this in direct comparison with a Kuro as I can't see there being much in it however I wouldn't like to back up any claim without actually seeing the two models side by side.

 

[Anonymous]

I think this could beat the Kuro!

 

[tvspecv]

if you havent bought your tv yet i suggest you get the new sharp models coming out end of august which have more led lights than the samsung and should be around your budget