(Sorry I am not sure, if I can do multiple posts continuing on same subject one after the another, I am doing this to give a logical flow and not to bore the reader going through multiple paras in same post. Someone please guide
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Demo1: Went to croma, started looking at few models like 39B6D, Sony 40R452A, LG 42ln 5400 and the models as I said above. After some mixing around I decided lets have those smart tv
. I like watching you tube documentaries on my laptop (it doesn't have an HDMI out so the tv have to have smart fucntions) esp the full HD ones, so what harm in watching it king size ( and the PQ on these smart ones 700b, e6 and 5710 was definitely a little better than its non smart counter parts)
After much viewing (soaps, sports- thanks that asia cup was on, cartoons, movies on SD and HD) and played around the settings following was my initial thoughts:
Sony 700B : Sony is sony as they say and my heart was "y not sony" Checked price around 65 k , no discount other than some tata employee discount.
LG LN 5710: Well it has all the whistles , dual core processor excellent sound, cheaper ( was quoted at 63 k but will get it for 57k or lesser ) IPS panel- I liked the colour on LG as it looked better poised and the motions definitely smooth enough.
E6D: It looked a beauty with thin bezel but all round a decent TV and picture looked natural. some where near range as of LG
Let me break it up in areas on each with the eyes of a novice buyer like me:
HD channels:
I loved the colour on sony , reason?- The colours looked very pumped up or artificial , nevertheless like any novice buyer (which I think I still am
) it looked totally like it had a different PQ compared to other panels.But then watched a tamil star Vijay's song in HD channel and well it was way too artificially coloured for me to digest. LG and Panny looked ok and normal on the HD, though LG looked a bit less sharp as panny ( maybe the IPS)
Then came asia cup telecast, Sony had the after presentation guys face so detailed, we could make out that the guy had beard stubs, not clean shaved
so much detail, well it maybe annoying to some though. Lg looked with very balanced colours thanks to the IPS again , panny looked a bit lacking in brightness,( but maybe it was hanged above my eyesight line and being a VA panel I may have lesser viewing angle).Then I noticed something on panny which I couldnt see on sony or LG, the grass on the field, I could make out each grass strand on a close up shot, where as sony looked ok, LG didnt at all have the detail - looked very bland in the grass shot. Panny definitely had the eye for detail unlike sony which was creating detail on skin tones.
Moved to HD Nat Geo, LG >>>> To my Horror an old bald Caucasian guys face was red as if he was strangulated by someone, his head looked like a red balloon too much over saturation of colours. Sony looked nice , but again the detail is a turn off ( maybe u can switch off some setting) the face creases and each facial features (all the cuts and the moles on face the twin jaw) were so visible that it looked bit annoying. Panny looked to handle it balanced not too much detail like sony and very natural skin tone unlike LG
SD:
Well LG finds the detail lacking again , the colours look smooth and the motion balanced, but simply put the sharpness does lack , maybe its the blacks on IPS panel ( I did play around the setting unsuccessfully). Sony was decent and yes handles motion much much better than panny and LG thanks to 200 HZ. But Panny of the lot again balanced , though it has slight issues with motion on side by side comparison on sports channels, nothing that u may notice on watched individually, but only side by side comparison. The cartoons ( I like watching occasional Disney movies English channels) were better in sony and panny , sony slight looked better with better colours, panny being natural and LG again IPS panel letting it down on the clarity and sharpness.
Conclusions from Demo 1:
The guy on the shop is an LG employee and yes he was hard selling me the LG 5710, then sony 700b . But I learn by that time that no further discounts on Sony possible, Panny and LG its possible to get discounts on MRP. So sony had to go, and I was not much disappointed though, as sony did have a lot more artificial thing going on with skin tones and colours and was too bright. The things I liked about sony was the way it handles motion. So it was a fight between LG5710 vs Panny E6D
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). And my better half was missing her romedy movies, we decided to take the plunge
