If you changed the Bulb you would be impressed.
I had 5 years on my Sony Rear LCD, and I decided to change the Bulb, and what a difference it made with the brightness and color.
It's slowing dimming, and you are just getting used to it.
Is 4k worth it. The difference is about $200
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I had 5 years on my Sony Rear LCD, and I decided to change the Bulb, and what a difference it made with the brightness and color.
It's slowing dimming, and you are just getting used to it.
Just got a 55 LG Oled.
The picture is amazing. Too bad the only 4K I can get is on Netflix
The picture is amazing. Too bad the only 4K I can get is on Netflix
WOW, awesome. That's what I want someday when the prices come down and DISH has a 4K Hopper.
Are all lcd/led tv's prone to dimming as they get older or is it only the older tv's or projections that are prone to that? Are plasma tv's and oled tv's prone to that as well? I thought some tv's kept full brightness until the bulb/led blew.
I'm not sure about full array LED/LCD tvs, But LCDs with Florescent back light, will dim too,
they claim 50 % after I believe an average of 80,000 hours.
Plasmas I think it's around the same. Both are throw aways.
Rear Projection LCD and DLP bulbs are recommended to be replaced at anywhere between 8 and 20 thousand hours depending on brand.
But they also dim over time.
But have basically a dramatic life span.
Changing the bulb alone does wonders on these, and actually These TV have Real HD PQ, that's hard to come by with FLAT PANEL tvs.
Maybe 4K is the long awaited answer.
I'm thinking LEDs just die.
they claim 50 % after I believe an average of 80,000 hours.
Plasmas I think it's around the same. Both are throw aways.
Rear Projection LCD and DLP bulbs are recommended to be replaced at anywhere between 8 and 20 thousand hours depending on brand.
But they also dim over time.
But have basically a dramatic life span.
Changing the bulb alone does wonders on these, and actually These TV have Real HD PQ, that's hard to come by with FLAT PANEL tvs.
Maybe 4K is the long awaited answer.
I'm thinking LEDs just die.
I have a Samsung led DLP projection that I thought were rated for 60,000 hours and wasn't sure if they were prone to dimming or not.
All the 4K UHDTV's have a spatial scaling engine built in the UHDTV and it will upconvert the all the programming it receives to 4K UHDTV.
I would not worry about it I paid $950. for my MC55-C2 Vizio 4K UHDTV to replace my Vizio M550SV 1080p HDTV.I sit 10 feet away from both and I can see the difference,as for HDR&WCG I just select my "Vivid" setting when I want the colors to
look awesome but I mostly use the Standard picture setting,besides they are estimating that the 8K SUHDTV's will come out in 3 to 4 more years and they should have Dolby Vision.
Will our eyes even be able to see a difference at 5-10 feet away with 8K vs 4K? Since it probably won't then what is next best thing? Making it thin enough to be bendable and to roll up and be ultra portable.
I've never heard of more then 20,000 claimed hours on those bulbs. And those are the newer LED replacement bulbs.
Not to say that you couldn't but I know DLPS and Rear LCD were an average of 10,000 hours.
LCD flat panel and plasmas are rated 80,000 -100,000.
But check out CNET, your model tv may even have a full review, and I'm sure in the review it will state when it was recommended.
Here is a piece on the Bulbs.
Mine is not the regular bulb. It has LED's in it so should have longer life. I was curious of the LED dims like the bulbs do or if they just go out without dimming.
I'm going to say no .
I think LEDs stay full brightness until they die.
What's your model tv?
Navy's tv if 11 years old is not LED bulb.
My television is the Samsung hl67a750a1fxza LED DLP I bought that particular model instead of the cheaper Mistubishi projections because I heard that the bulbs needed replaced more often and I believe they had color wheels which I figured was another moving part which would make the tv more prone to failure.
The One Connect Box provides future upgradability. You don't replace the panel, just the electronics. I've already done mine with my UN65HU9000. It's $399 for the box. It upgrade mine from a quad core processor to and octa core processor, HDMI 2.0a compliance, HDCP 2.2, and the latest TIZEN OS.
If you want 3D, you need a 240Hz set. If you want a smooth, soap opera effect, buy a 240Hz set. Otherwise, 120Hz is good enough for most people. Stay away from 60Hz sets.
Netflix, Youtube, M-GO have plenty of 4k content. Netflix will automatically detect that you have a 4k TV.
You get what you pay for. You buy a low cost TV, you get low cost DSPs which can"t do the very powerful upscaling algorithms required for great video performance. Just because it's cheap....... You're better off spending the same money on a 1080P set.
When they manufacture panels and DSPs, they measure their performance for speed, accuracy, number of dead pixels, etc. Then, they sort them by bins into excellent, good, barely good. This correlates to, let's say, 240Hz, 120Hz, 60Hz or Samsung Regular model numbered TVsUN55JU7000, "Special" Model Numbers for Best Buy ex UN55JU7100, or the Walmart "Special". Once again, you get what you pay for.
Everybody has their own budget and threshold of pain.
Nope. They dim down. If an LED is rated for 100K hours, then most will be at about half rated brightness after 100K hours.
