Pre-order, shipping from warehouse Jul 15th.
Seems like a very cheap price for a 55" TV.
Delivery to Melbourne $33, Adelaide $37, Sydney $39, Brisbane $49, Perth $72, Hobart $82, Darwin $120.
They also have a 41.5" 4K LED LCD for $319PP! https://www.dicksmith.com.au/da/buy/dick-smith-415-4k-led-tv…
Does anyone know how good these are? As stated it has a Samsung panel. Would it be any good for gaming? Its also got a 120hz refresh rate
Which is just what you want for 50Hz (PAL) content. 50 goes into 120 so cleanly. Fine for games running at 60fps, although you would turn that off, and just have it natively 60Hz to reduce lag. Their specs are crap, and just taken from original US specs for the panel, with no consideration for what that means for the local requirements.
When I last asked Kogan, their panels didn’t have refresh rate matching either, so that doesn’t help one bit.
As a cheap tv I ended up getting a Soniq (JBs house brand) because it has refresh rate matching.
Samsung panel = Bad (esp. if price was a factor in sourcing for an ultra cheap product). Just google samsung tv lines on screen. Problems for years, unsupported by Samsung outside warranty which tells you what to expect from them if you get caught up in a similar situation.
Kogan = Bad.
Double the chance for pain.
I'm not defending this particular product, I don't intend on buying one. BUT I can google any product in the world and find a bunch of posts about it's problems. That's the nature of the way people give feedback online.
Do you have any reasonable evidence to support the claim that Samsung panels are bad? (given the have consistently been the highest selling LCD manufacturer in the world - http://www.statista.com/statistics/267095/global-market-shar…)
And what about Kogan products? (again I don't own any).
Dam you and your reasonable comment.
I'd probably get a slightly smaller but 4K TV from ALDI for around this price.
Do they do a 50"? I've seen the 40" TVs, but that is not 'slightly smaller'. I'm a big fan of getting the largest you can afford. The average person doesn't sit close enough to their TV to see the full benefits of 1080P let alone 4K…
Unless you have access and can watch a lot of 4K content, stay with 1080P. Just as old SD 576 resolution looks crap on an average 1080P TV, 1080P (or 1080i) looks crap on an average 4K panel. Getting smaller yet higher res screen also makes less sense.
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For anyone's future reference, I got this tv delivered a few days ago. Tv physically looks good, speakers rubbish, sounds like everything filmed in a cinema. Contrast is it's pretty average, colours are barley there until you pay with the settings, then shows with coloured back sets like game shows the color distorts, but I've seen better tv's do this too. FHD channels and media look much better, only complaint would be contrast and color reproduction. But end of the day I needed cheapest big tv, and happy enough with this with external speakers attached. If I had more money I would have got an lg or Sony at the 1k price point.
It has a samsung panel