Due to a tax rebate last month and me persuading Mrs K to part with the family savings we got a new TV last night
We got an LG 47" LED 3D smart TV and what a thing of beauty it is!
When it arrived the outer box was beaten to hell on on bottom corner and wet so it had obviously been dropped and dragged by someone!
The delivery guy was on his own so it was probably him, it's not surprising though, the box was massive and almost impossible for one person to carry, he should have had a helper!
Anyway, lucky the inner packaging was fine.
The TV is frameless so there's no bezel it's just all screen and looks beautiful even when turned off.
It's about 1cm deep and there's nothing to note when off apart from a small base and the quite nicely designed stand, it's just a 47" slice of slightly reflective black.
Because of the design it's not imposing and once it's turned off you don't even notice it, fantastic design.
Our last TV was a 5 year old 42" LCD Toshiba and it was a massive, imposing hulk so it's quite an improvement!
When the TV is turned on the screen is fantastic!
SD looks... well SD and on a 47" screen that's not a good thing.
HD though.... O.M.G!
I watched Event Horizon last night in HD on Sky, oldish film but the clarity and detail levels are stark raving, bonkers!
Like I said our old 1080p TV was quite an early LCD so suffered from burn in, motion blur, artifacts and wasn't particularly detailed or bright.
The new TV is almost hyper real, light reflecting off individual hairs on someones head, even fluff on actors clothing.
It also removes the motion blur that I was used to so older stuff does look a bit "soap opera" and it lays bare the set design and older blue/green screen with a dark halo round the actors.
If the program has got the S/FX lighting slightly off... you'll see it.
With the emotion engine that removes blur everything runs in real time with no blur, unfortunately films and TV all use motion blur between frames to compensate for the low framerate and without the blur older stuff runs at realtime and looks... well looks like it was filmed last week on the Eastenders set or like a BBC camera crew filmed it.
Really strange effect!
It can be turned off though but when you do, you realise just how shoddy TV quality broadcasts were.
I watched an Enterprise episode last night and it was surreal, amazing detail, the matt paintings and CG looked dreadful lol
The all the sets looked like sets and with the motion engine enabled it was like watching a sci-fi Neighbours or Home and Away.
Very weird!
Haven't tried Bluray or 3D yet, might try Star Trek Bluray tonight or maybe one of the Bonds but we've ordered Avatar3D and Monsters University (for the kid... honest) that should be here soon so we'll test the 3D soon.
Over all though, what an amazing experience watching TV last night, I expected the new TV to be better than our old LCD but I never expected to be staring open mouthed at it hehe
It's going to be a great Christmas!
