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Used for: 1–3 months
Motion on sport is clean once the smoothing goes
The default picture mode is far too aggressive
Turn the smoothing off before anyone watches a match on this. On the setting it arrives with, football looks like a soap opera and the players glide about as if they were on ice. Off, though, it is exactly as it should be, and the rest of the picture is excellent for the price!
Used for: 1–3 months
The software fights you at every step
The panel deserves better than the computer bolted to it. Picture quality is genuinely very good for the money, bright and sharp and clean on fast motion once the smoothing is off, and I would happily give 5 stars for that alone. Then you have to use it. The home screen opens on a row of films someone has paid to put there. Scrolling is not smooth. Apps take a beat too long to open and now and then forget where you were. The settings are spread across two different menus, one of which looks like it was drawn a decade ago, and the smoothing has to be turned off for each picture mode rather than once. An update in the spring shuffled the rows about and put the energy saving back on, which dimmed everything until I found it. Three stars is the panel pulling the software up.
Used for: More than a year
Doing everything it did at the start
The speakers were never going to be enough
This was bought as the sensible option, a big set for a room that gets a lot of sun, without paying for the badge. 14 months later I would choose it again without thinking twice. Brightness is the reason. There is no time of day when the picture gives up, and the anti-glare is good enough that the window behind the sofa never shows up in a dark scene. Sport is clean and the console mode is instant. Nothing has drifted a shade since the day it was set up. The sound was thin from the start and a bar went underneath within the first month, which I would budget for rather than be disappointed by. There is a little glow around bright things at night as well, though after a year I genuinely do not see it.
Used for: 6–12 months
Bright and fast for a good deal less than the big badges
Adverts on the home screen
Cross-shopped this against two sets with better-known badges and could not make the extra money make sense. 9 months on, that still feels like the right call. It is bright enough for a room with the blinds up, the motion on sport is clean once you drop the smoothing, and the console mode is as quick as anything I have played on. The compromises are exactly where you would expect: the sound is thin under music, and the home screen carries a row of promoted films that cannot be turned off. Neither is worth the difference in price to me, and I would buy the same again.
Used for: More than a year
No drift and no dead pixels after heavy use
The remote feels cheap
On most evenings for well over a year now and it looks exactly the same as the day it came out of the box
Used for: 6–12 months
Console games feel instant
Cluttered home screen
Bought for gaming and it has been faultless at it since the summer
Used for: Less than a month
Enormous picture for the money
Feet are very wide
Half the price of the badge, honestly!
Used for: 1–3 months
Very quick for gaming
The picture needs work out of the box
Whatever mode this ships in ought to be called shop window: everything oversharpened, the colour pushed and the smoothing on full. 20 minutes with the settings and it is a different set, natural and clean and quick. The high refresh mode with the console is superb, which is what it was bought for. It loses a star, though, because most people will never make those changes and will think this is how it looks
Used for: Less than a month
Set it up in the morning and watched a film on it that night
Used for: 1–3 months
The old plasma went to the tip and the family have not stopped commenting on how bright this one is. Nothing has been touched since the first evening!
Used for: 1–3 months
Bright, quick and it cost about half what the same size costs with a famous badge on it