Look at it in store and picture looked great. Only a few reviews I could find that also said picture quality was it's strong point. Apparently the smart functions are very laggy. Not sure what the 3d is like, rarely use it on my other TVs anyway. 50ms input lag for gaming is not great but is acceptable.
We bought the 55" version of this about 6 months ago. Not really been that overjoyed with it.
The picture out of the box was horrid, but that's not unusual. What was odd was that it took and awful lot of fiddling to get a picture that we regarded as decent (most sets you can just wind the sharpness and colour back from store defaults). The are some annoying oddities too, like the auto-brightness setting randomly re-enabling itself.
Aside from that, it takes a very long time to start up, reminds me of the first digital TVs 10 years ago. Also sluggish to change channels. It doesn't retain the EIT when you put it into standby either, so you lose your entire EPG every time (in contrast to just about every other name-brand set I've played with).
The 'Smart' functions are very underwhelming. The UI is awful, slow to respond and once you're in, the list of features is slim. There's zero catch-up TV services available, which was a big let-down. Theres a couple of silly games, Youtube and a few other offerings that you often see on cheap set top boxes. It doesn't play nice with our Pioneer amp either, the HDMI control keeps turning the amp off just after you've turned it on and similar oddities (it's now disabled). The HDMI CEC doesn't work as expected with our Topfield either.
There was a firmware update a day or two ago, perhaps some of our concerns have been addressed, I haven't had time to check.
Not that much of a bargain. I paid the same price for my 63" Samsung plasma.
Seriously mate. Plasmas have always held lower pricing at larger screen sizes so your comment doesn't really add much value. LED screens are still typically higher priced at smaller screen sizes.
So because LEDs are more expensive than plasmas that makes them a bargain? I'm confused.
No it just means there's no point in comparing apples to oranges.
It's more like apples vs. apples except one is a Fuji and the other a Pink Lady. They're both TVs, nothing more.
So by that logic a ford fiesta and a ferarri should be compared simply because they are both cars?
Not the same thing as the cars have vastly different engines. TVs are all mostly the same, a few factories pump out 1080p panels. Big name brands slap their logos on them, offering very little to differentiate models. Your analogy would be more accurate if it was a car that looked the same, but one had a Ford logo on it and the other a Ferrari logo.
So you dont consider plasmas and led panels vastly different? Picture quality, refresh rates, power consumption, price for panel size? I certainly consider them different enough. Maybe its just me though.
Last year i bought Toshiba 47 inch LED 3d TV 969 with 150$ cash back offer from JBHIFI, it was really good and happy. But can't compare with Sony's smart TV functions.