55 inch FHD SMART TV from LG for less than $1K
Don't forget Cashback.
Some description from the Good guys ebay store
Screen Size: 55" MPN: 55LH575T
Smart TV: Yes Warranty: 1 Year
Height (mm): 774 Weight with stand (without stand): 17.6kg (17.3kg)
HDMI Input: 2 Width (mm): 1243
USB Input: 1 Depth (mm): 238
Screen Resolution: Full High Definition UPC: Does not apply
At Good Guys, there is a 'Pay Less Payback eftpos' up to $300, which I think started today. Here' the link:
https://www.thegoodguys.com.au/televisions-promotion?utm_sou…
That offer is only for selected models.
Refresh rate 50 Hz
Thanks. A showstopper for me. Current tv -8 years old- is at 50hz, so less of an upgrade.
Can someone please explain why this is a bad thing?
It's not, it's unfortunately become a popularised myth that the refresh rate of a monitor is what people describe as pixel response time - so people will equate higher refresh rates with decreased pixel response time (they are independent metrics). It's great for PR departments to one up each other, but it's bad for the consumer in the same way the megapixel wars are bad for cameras.
I did a write up of it a few years back:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/213771 (look for the wall of text)
Thanks for that. So now that we've phased out analog tv which was in PAL format at 50Hz, is the digital signal we get now 50fps? If so, a "50Hz" tv would make more sense for watching Australian TV wouldn't it?
PAL is still the current format, just now we have 1080i50 in addition to 576i50. It's always been transmitted in 50 interlaced frames, but most the non-live content is captured in 25 progressive frames and had to be converted to 50i in order to be displayed on a CRT TV in the day (something we still do today to comply to broadcasters specs).
Some live sport is captured in 50 interlaced frames but I would have to talk to a broadcast engineer to ask if they are deinterlaced to 25p before reconverting to 50i for broadcast. There's a few reasons why they would want to do this in the HDTV era,the first that comes to mind is that quite a few of these studio broadcast monitors use 1440 rectangle pixels with metadata pointers telling the display/program to stretch the 1440x1080i50 rectangles to 1920x1080p25 square pixels and some TVs may not be capable of dealing with this.
When an HDTV received a 1080i50 signal it first converts it to 25p by combining/interpolating the fields (2x 1920x540i50 to 1920x1080p25). It then displays the combined it on a 50hz screen by keeping each frame up for 2 cycles.
A cycle of the display doesn't mean the backlight is strobing that fast, or that the image will refresh that fast, it's just the metric that a signal is sent to the display and how fast the display is capable of accepting the signal - if the pixel response time can't keep up with the refresh rate, then the TV will be refreshing an image faster than a pixel can shift colour to the correct display colour - this will make for a very bad image.
By all means go for a high refresh rate TV, just be aware of the trickery being done to come up with the high refresh rate numbers (fake frames being created for content shot at 24/25/30).
Also if you intend to use the TV for PC gaming then high refresh rates are important, but input lag is more important, which every single TV (to my knowledge) adds significantly more than a monitor without a scaler - so you probably wouldn't be looking at a TV for that kind of gaming anyway.
There is no way to roughly judge input lag via specs tho is there, with
out manual tests?
Was looking to use this as a multi-purpose monitor but maybe should look into something else
Unless you can google the input lag from other people's tests then most likely not. Manufacturers don't like to advertise their input lag.
When you see a TV advertised as 50hz, then 99.99999999% chance it will also be capable of 60hz (it's just advertised as 50hz as it's more in line with our broadcast standards, and in America their 60hz HDTVs can also do 50hz). The only case I heard about a HDTV doing 50 but not 60 was on this forum where a user bought one of the DSE 40" for $200 (if memory serves me right), but I don't know how that user tested it or if their results were correct so that's the only time I've heard of a 50hz only display on an HDTV.
Computer monitors, broadcast monitors and other niche display devices can be locked to a single refresh rate only.
If you have a laptop then I don't see why you can't go into a store and ask them to test it. It takes around 10 minutes to do. I wouldn't write this off, as 1080p non smart TVs tend to have great input lag (yes this is a smart TV but it won't have to scale 1080p to fit the panel. It's the 4K/UHD TVs with smart functions that have the worst input lag. They have to process and scale a 1080p image to 4K inside at the same time as running all the application such as DTV and source monitoring in the background = increased input lag.
I wrote how to test it out here:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/256949#comment-3847533
Also I had a read through my above post and there's a lot of spelling mistake and I even wrote 'monitor' when I mean 'camera' when talking about capturing interlaced footage - I wrote that before the morning coffee kicked in so yeah..
Not smarter than me!
Seems like a pretty good price for a 55 inch FHD TV from a decent manufacturer.
What is the energy star rating ???
What cashback?
Edit: Right, you mean Cashrewards etc. I thought you meant The Good Guys/LG were offering cashbacks for the TV mdoel.