The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread!

[Ken]

Even 55" inches is pushing it on the size that you might notice the benefit of 4k unless you're going to sit really close. And I cannot imagine you would be able to detect the difference between 120 and 240hz either.

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If you need to buy something now that's less than 60" and you're not using it as a computer display 3ft away from your face, I'd get a good quality 1080 for cheap. Now if you want to spend some $, or wait a year, OLED is the real "new thing", 4K or not. And the prices are crashing down as they figure out the manufacturing. They'll be giving away the current crop next year to make room for these.

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^ What he said.

That being said, I went ahead and bought a refurbished 55in 4K Samsung last year and I don't regret it. Maybe it's just my mind playing with me, but the 4K material I do get looks fucking fantastic compared to the 1080P. Keep in mind, at least for me, cable still doesn't even transmit in 1080p (it's 1080i) so I highly doubt you'll be seeing 4K anytime soon being transmitted on cable or satellite.

Also - do some research and see how well the TV you're considering, if it's 4K, downscales. I read a whole bunch of A/V blogs about the TV I bought and everyone was raving about just how good it was at downscaling to 1080P and how they couldn't tell the difference between it and a high end 1080P model.

What's also neat for Samsung is that they develop "Evolution" kits which are like an add-on that ensures your model doesn't become outdate so quickly (most importantly on HDMI inputs.) So that gave me some piece of mind that what I'm buying won't be completely worthless in a year.