Just saw this on the latest Aldi catalogue. Probably the same model as this one a few months ago. Bauhn Black Series 55" 4K/UHD TV for $777 from 30 March. Supposed to be a smart TV as well with built in WiFi and apps.
Other special buys:
How is the quality of yhis compare to LG, Samsung or Panasonic?
lol
What did you mean by lol? They will laugh at Bauhn?
Ive got 2 aldi bauhn TV, 2 year old 32" TV and a 42" 7 yo TV. Never missed a beat. Cant speak for lg ect though.
Also hanging on an answer to this question. I normally read that the cheaper brands have a decent picture but tin can sound, so budget for a soundbar
Yes, let's await a more educated response than lol.
Instruction manual for more detailed specs: http://www.pdf-archive.com/2016/03/23/atvs55-915-instruction…
I got the 65" 4k TV. Couldn't be happier. The "Smart" features suck,but nothing a Chromecast can't fix. Of course you need to boost the audio (even a decent sound bar will do the trick as long as it has a sub). If you get a chance to grab one I highly recommend it.
I'm extremely happy with mine, I mainly use a gaming HTPC at 4k, fta still looks good. I don't use any of the smart features, but happy with picture quality, which is all I was after.
Depends which models you're comparing.
If you're going to change tv in 1-5 years at this price its good value.
OLED is what you want in future.
People have been saying OLED is the near future for about more than 5 years now.
OLED is but affordability drives sales.
Probably still will be… Did you know Pioneer were using the technology in car audio players before LG put it into a TV? Pioneer. Pretty accurate brand name.
OLED probably will be much better and cheaper in 5 years though. I'll say stick to the budget and find the best TV within the budget.
Only if you are happy to replace your OLED screen every few years / months. I've recently been to Korea and had the opportunity to inspect some OLED screens that have been aged for QA. The picture quality starts visibly degrading after 1,000 hours of runtime. By the time you get to a couple of thousand hours, the brightness is significantly reduced.
OLED also suffers from image retention issues and those only take a few hours to exhibit. If your kids watch a couple of hours of ABC KIDS in the morning, expect to see the logo in the corner of the screen for the rest of the day. :-(
I used to be in the OLED recommender camp as well, purely based on the marketing specs. and the occasional demo, but after seeing the reality from the purely objective product testing side, I am back to recommending various variations on the LCD technology.
expect to see the logo in the corner of the screen for the rest of the day. :-(
That must be great if you say were watching porn and you paused it to er … do something and then BOOM, dicks everywhere on the TV permanently :D
I cant speak for the UHD version but i have the full HD bauhn 55" and picture quality is great for the price. The sound however is terrible. Sound bar fixes that though.
Do you mean, does 4k make a panel? No, it doesn't. Are all the people that paid LARGE amounts for 4k LED on release, suckers? Yes they are. LG, Samsung or Panasonic 1080p would crap all over it. 4k V 1080p on panel TV extremely overated, especially at this size. So many other more important variables. Hence why plasmas have been out of the market for 3 years and OLED is the only thing that will push them off the top.
Shame Panasonic stopped making plasmas! They should have re branded the 'plasma' name as many consumers are not not technically smart and just want the 'latest' technology.
The enthusiasts were still buying them right up till the end. I didn't mind when I got one of the last Panasoncis, I thought it was great that Plasma were so cheap compared to the equivalent sized 1080p LED/LCD of the time. You're right too, the market trashed 'plasma' for so long, all the sheep just got in line and went along with it. When I asked people I know why LED was better than Plasma back then, all they could say was "oh, isn't plasma just old tech?". Lol. Marketing +1.
OLED affordable in 18 months - 2 years hopefully. Bring it!
I see bauhn get thrown out every time there is a local garbage dump week.
But do they still work? My parents sister and brother own 49" for 8 years, ive owned a 42" for 7 and a 32" for 2 coming on 3 years now.. Aldis other TV brands seem to die but not bauhn.
of course not
if they work, would they be thrown out?
I tested a few and they all had issues with the LCD display
@tyler.durden: lol, I know a guy who gets fridges ect from stores who take away the old ones free then sells them, most are fine. People do throw away good things when they replace em.
well not in this case
bauhn are shit.
I buy only known brands when it comes to large purchases like TVs.
well u must be lucky…
I wouldn't touch aldi TVs
Picture quality, reliability are poor with aldi TVs..
You save money, but u get what you pay for.
@tyler.durden: my whole family has it seems, 5/5 still working yet the 32 Panasonic died after 2 years, mum was so mad lol.
don't know if they have improved the video lag audio Issue, a few have reported and had to return it.
Any feedback on the media player?
Physically it's the same as the one they were selling last year and it was not popular on Ozbargain.
The internals are a little bit different as it's running Android 4.4.2 and supports 4K. It appears to be a copy of the Remix Mini in terms of specifications and capability.
It claims to support the following video decoding, but the smoothness and quality might be awful:
H.265/HEVC 4K @ 30 FPS
1080p @ 60 FPS, H.264 1080p @ 30fps
H.263 & VP8
tl;dr It's probably going to be crap with very limited or no support from Winplus. 4K will either be upscaled or perform very poorly. It's not going to do Netflix HD either.
If you want a good media player support smooth 4K playback then you should buy the Minix brand.
The downside is that MINIX won't update it to Lollipop.
Good deal. If you don't care about picture quality. Imo you would be better of getting a 55" 1080p 100hz from Sony for a similar budget. If this Bauhn is anything like a Sonic then it will leave a lot to be desired, speaking from experience, I tried the 50" Sonic, put it on gumtree 2 days later because colour and motion was rubbish to my critical eyes, I then went and got a 55" Sony, it's picture was much better in every possible way, even the built in speakers were 5x better, although I don't use them as I have a HT sytem. The Sony is easily worth it's price, which is around double that of the same size Sonic. In this deals scenario you have to ask yourself if you really need 4K when you are sacrificing the colour and motion performance that a 1080p 100hz Sony would have. It's an easy choice, you don't need 4K, so get a 1080p Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, LG (worst choice for lcd, but for oled trumps all). From my findings on the current gen of TV's Sony has the best bang for buck models if your budget is under 1.5k.
Ahh…so you are the guy selling that cr*p Sonic on Gumtree ;)
Nah already sold mine off, was sold within days, some people just love cheapo tv's. I bought it on special at JB, so I could resell without loss, but decided to be ethical and sell for $50 less than I bought it lol.
I try to stay away from Aldi TV, the one I have died just after the 1 year warranty finished.
You should still talk to them, sometimes they will do something and depending on how much you paid for it, consumer affairs might back you because in statutory warranties there's a provision for going outside the warranty if the price paid would set an expectation that the device would last longer than the warranty.
I haven't explained that well but who knows, you might get something.
I thought every TV should be 2 years cover. If that isn't so, i'd buy from Costco.
The TV I purchased from Aldi only had a 1 year warranty.
Yep, you would "reasonably expect" a television to last longer than 1 year.
Just have a chat to the warranty team, I'm sure you can strike up something to get your tv fixed. Consumer Affairs is more likely to back you in the case that it's more likely reasonable to expect a tv to last more than a year
Why not add a bit more and buy the best TV on the market?
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/240213
Agreee. Love my sony 65 4K
I'm all for Sony (I own 3 of them) but is sound something you really look for when buying a TV these days?
is sound something you really look for when buying a TV these days?
no, you listen for it.
All TV designs are getting slimmer which compromises the speaker size and design further deteriorating the quality. Sound should be the least important feature to look for as those really enjoying their big screens will likely hook it up to an amp receiver
Here I am still on a 50" Samsung plasma from 2007 still works perfectly fine :)
I've got a very old Sony 40" CRT TV in my garage since 1994 and still working fine.
Inch or cm? 40 inch back in 1994 must have cost a fortune!
40" inch and cost me $3000 back then.
My 42" bought roughly same time was $4200 and still good. Yours must have cost heaps!
HDMI 2.0
Good stuff
From my experience Bauhn normally use a good quality panel, but don't have the quality software to drive it. For example, no backlight incremental dimming for better blacks and lower power consumption. BUT..These cheaper brands tend to support any USB device you plug in it. Whereas Panasonic for example are terrible. 2015 TV still doesn't support ntsf dual partition HDDs. Take a HDD in with mkv etc files on it. Look for backlight control in the menu.
My LG 42lb6500 from 2014 plays mkv and support ntfs hdd drive. I have no idea if multiples partitions works or not since I don't have a HDD with two partitions. Passive 3d is great for watching Japanese 1080p 3d movies :) no sore eyes!! Hahahaha
That's weird. My week old Pana (2015 model 60CX700A) always recognises my dual partitioned NTFS portable 500GB hard drive and I can play any file on both partitions. Do you own one?
Girlfriend's TV is a 'Painasonic', something like a 42" LED 50A?? Her whole family has Pana gear and nothing works. My HDD (Seagate 1.5TB FAT/ NTSF split partition so that most built in PVR's still work (requires FAT) and I can still put Bluray rips beyond 4GB on the NTFS partition, totally doesn't work on the Pana. My plugged in android phone to watch videos from isn't detected. I tried using their Bluray player USB input.. doesn't work. I gave them my old 6yr+ old Highlander set top box that I used to use with my CRT.. reads and plays everything. I even tried updating the firmware, which didn't seem to add any codec/ file support. On the positive side, I downloaded some Kardashian rubbish for the GF in .mp4 format that doesn't work so she had to watch that on the Chinese cheapy TV in the Bedroom!
I have a bauhn 55" TV. awesome TV. I watch it for hours at a time. sometimes I even turn it on.
How does one actually "turn" it on?
Actually, these days, can one even say switch it on?
More like (de)press it on / push it on
Dress up like a female 55" TV with a bit of lipstick and a wig Bugs Bunny style.
Just check Whirlpool on the drama the Aldi Bauhn TVs have caused.
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/?action=search&q=aldi%…
Olds aging applies… You get what you pay for. I was going to grab a cheap Kogan til I bit the bullet on the 55" oled from LG. No point with 4k even though it's a current fad feature of the year, there's really no genuine content out there for 4k TV's and probably won't be for another 1 to 2 years
I tend to agree. Why is the free to air AFL still broadcast in 576 (Foxtel rights)? I watch footy on an old Sony 'large screen' CRT in the shed. Everyone always comments on how amazing the picture is.. and What TV is it (since you cant see the back). I just cant watch the footy on a large flat screen from a distance in a normal lounge room.
I can answer that. Channel 7 hate AFL fans and always will. They are stuck in 2007
how does 1080p content look on 4k tv?
does it have black likes?
Yeah, Netflix just does non-genuine 4K content, good call.
Everyone talking about the TV, what's the laptop like in terms of value?
It's good value and you have 60 days to try it.
Here is another site sell it for $345 + free pick up from Sunshine Warehouse.
http://www.centrecom.com.au/hp-250-g4-laptop-intel-celeron-n…
I'm thinking of "renting" the TV and laptop for 60 days. If I like them, I'll keep them. Can't go wrong with a 60 day money back.
Got the 65" one a while back. It's been great! So I would recommend this, especially for the price.
Rubbish TV is you are serious about image quality and gaming. I had to return it
Stick to Panasonic or Sony
Some people are happy with their lemon, so don't waste your time talking to a brick.
Lol good one.
Someone here commented that Aldi 4K TV or cheap brand TV he purchased is better than Panasonic 4K or Sony 4K! some people are clueless, they have no idea of tech specs involved, where to begin!
I think Panasonic are rubbish, see prior comment.
Just picked up a 65" 4k Hisense.. very impressed with the upscaling / handling of low res broadcast and peripheral support. Only gripe would be the remote config.
4k at 60 hz?
30hz
Anyone pick one up? Keen to know if worth the price or not.
Rubbish TV. I returned it
Get Panasonic or Sony
Would have been great with 3D
Ooh does this mean the 65" will likely be on sale soon too? ;)