Interdiscount.ch have the 65" Samsung UE65JS8580 for 1999CHF... it's a stonking TV at a fantastic price (significantly cheaper than anywhere else in UK or EU) and I will aim to pick one up today or tomorrow.
http://www.interdiscount.ch/idshop/p...ved/detail.jsf Cheapest UK price: £1850 http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/pli/2-3...Compare-Prices
Cheapest EU price: 2490 EUR http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/pli/2-3...Compare-Prices
Reviews from the top review sites:
http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/ue55j...1506114124.htm
https://www.avforums.com/review/sams...0-review.11268
http://4k.com/tv/review-samsung-js85...00-un65js8500/
It is also HDR enabled (the latest must-have feature) and the other model I was looking at, the Samsung 6470, is less than half the TV in terms of specs and only 25% cheaper.
Yes it's curved, but not too badly and I think you can get used to it.
Either way if you have been looking for a large TV for movies and gaming, then this represents a great deal.
And what will you be replacing?
This one, which is significantly worse
Samsung 50" 4K TV, 777.00 in Migros
we could open a separate thread with the title "how can I explain a 65 inch TV to my wife"
She can certainly tell the difference between 4 and 12 inches
450chf. I just need to decide whether to keep that one or my 50" F6500
http://www.amazon.de/Samsung-UE50F65.../dp/B00BMKAOKI
I've got the 48" model which I do like, except the control software and 'features'...it seems slow, clunky and overall rather disappointing. Also, I found almost nothing in the widely advertised 'smart hub' apps that is any good. Note also, the Skype service is no longer operational as of July - not that I used it for Skyping, but was very handy as an on-TV alert whenever a call came in.
You need to change the TV location to the UK, then you get all the UK on-demand TV smart apps like iPlayer, ITV player, 4OD etc. It also has Netflix, Amazon Instant and Youtube... not sure you need much else in addition to DLNA streaming functionality?
That model seems to be an "orphan" in that the model more widely sold in CH is the UE65JS 8580 .
You would have to have a look to see what differences there are between the two.
The 8580 model is on sale from Microspot.ch today (-10% using the coupon code SAMSUNG10 at checkout). The price is then CHF 1'979.10
The 10% discount is available on all Samsung TV, video and audio.
http://www.microspot.ch/msp/pages/se...earch_fr&Nty=1
The link for the TV I am buying if you click it IS for the UE65JS8580... I just wrote UE65JS8500 in the OP as that is the UK naming convention and I was researching it at the time. It's exactly the same TV.
As I have an Inter-Discount 100m from my house, it's a no-brainer if I need to return it.
rich dog - how do you change the to location ? Using a vpn?
Change service location
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/an...824/997433186/ Then you need IP masker or VPN to access the content.
Does the tv you will be selling have this HDR of which ye speak?
No me hearty, it does not. Only the high-end ones be having this feature, arrrr.
If you're okay with 10 less inches Interdiscount has the LG 55EF950V for CHF 2499. OLED, UHD, HDR... and flat screen. The perfect TV nowadays, IMO.
OLED, while great, is certainly not perfect, it has its own panel defect issues due to the manufacturing process and is not ideal for gaming as the response rate is so high. Amazing colours and black yes, but that isn't the whole story. plus the lack of OnDemand TV apps in the LG Web OS is a bugbear for me.
I would be interested to know how many stops or what the contrast ratio is in reel world terms. Easiest way to test is a chess board & a spot meter.
About 10 years ago TV's were advertised as having over 1,000,000 : 1 contrast ratio when they actually struggled to get 500:1 (9 stops) (probably the practical limit of an 8 bit stream of the source material) Manufactures took the readings with the TV as bright as possible to get the white reading, then turned off the TV to measure the black.
Dolby have some amazing HDR monitors, I think they have started licensing the technology
Yeah, there were all sorts of shennanigans for TV and also PC monitor specs, with hilarious contrast ratios even being quoted on TN panels.
The Samsung will be a VA panel so a middle of the road in that regard, however the dimming technology and contrast enhancing technology seemed to make a difference even on the lower models when I looked at them yesterday.
Will go and see the JS850 in a couple of hours and report back, hopefully with one in hand.
O.M.F.G.
This thing is HUGE (insert 'that's what she said' joke here). I just got help from an awesome EF'er (who only came to buy my camera) to hike it back to my place in his car and I just have to say, dude, you are a lovely guy and deserve a medal of honour. EF at its finest.
I won't get it out of the packet until my better half can help me as it's simply too big for one person and I'm scared of breaking it. From the one I saw in store however, the curve is very gentle and it's so so thin... even on a crappy in-store stream it looked good. The panel was also pretty uniform. God knows whats going to happen when I put Game of Thrones on... I'll probably accidentally all over myself. Ahem.
For the money this simply can't be beaten in terms of specs, the vastly inferior models are only a couple/few hundred CHF less and they are half the TV this is.
I will keep you updated as and when I get it set up!
PS: A 50" Samsung TV will be making its way onto the FS section soon...