Also, there seem to be several frame models (serif, frame etc. Which one are you referring to?)
Toshiba U79 and U80 Owners Discussion And Review !!
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social3467
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Do check out the TV. It felt pretty dull when I saw it today. The specs are good but somehow it did not appeal to me. Not sure HDR games would look too good on this TV. The price was 1.04L. With cashbacks it should come under just 1L.
I was secretly wishing it would wow me and I'd be forced to to up my budget. But the live demo actually convinced me it's a no go.
Yeah i intend to make a round of all the shops in delhi I possibly can
lightgamer
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Let me condense my thoughts:
- If you want the best PQ for movies/TV shows under 50k, U79 is an absolute steal. Nothing comes close and you'll need to shell out almost double to beat it.
- The frame is the most balanced TV under 1 lac. It still doesn't match the PQ of U79 due to lower brightness and lacking FALD(has great native contrast though), but has 120Hz panel, better response times and HDMI 2.1.
- If you want to beat the PQ of U79 with HDMI 2.1 and 120Hz panel, you'll have to shell out 1 lac for the X9000H. But it doesn't beat it by much, and there are much better TVs in terms of PQ for close to that price (X9500G for example).
- If you can shell slightly more than 1 lac, you should be able to bargain LG B9 for 1.1 lakhs or so. That will give you amazing PQ with 120Hz, HDMI 2.1 and OLED.
Serif is a different TV. I'm referring to the The Frame 2020 55". Don't buy the 50" as it is quite compromised and lacks 120Hz.
Q70r does since it also has FALD...panasonic and frame 2020 are also really good...only thing is samsung models wont have Dolby vision support(if that's a must have for you) and panasonic is an IPS screen so better viewing angles but poor contrast ratio...again these are statistics and an untrained eye may not be able to tell apart Unless compared side be side...u7980 has its own demerits and so does q70r....but that doesn't make it a bad purchase...see this thread for u79 and check out reviews of q70r on youtube by Vincent Teoh or rtings. Panasonic has a filmaker mode which has got glowing review..there is a separate thread for it over here..check that out...finalize 2 and take the one with the best deal in your budget...
B9 stock is over everywhere (atleast in my area)
what would be the price of BX 55 on diwali?
lightgamer
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This year I can't predict anything. In January, I was sure that I'll get an OLED this Diwali. Then COVID came, hurt the supply, things got expensive and I don't really want to visit stores. Also supply is heavily fragmented across India since goods are not moving freely across state borders.
I'd say anything below 1.2 lakhs should be a steal for BX. For CX anything below 1.35 should be great. Now whether you want to visit stores in this scenario and negotiate is up to you. I'll personally wait for next year and hope for <1.8 lakhs for CX/C11 65".
The frame.
I have seen x900E in home environment and it was a light cannon.. Even in SDR.. Sony should have messed up something miserably on x9000h to make anything resembling 'dull'. Recommend take a different demo in a different shop.
lightgamer
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Hotstar and Sony liv will look terrible even on Samsung's 12 crore 'the wall' micro LED. If the source content is encoded in low bitrate, no TV can save it.
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I have been using 55U7980 from the past one week. Here are pros and cons
Pros
1. Provides OLED like blacks
2. Very bright panel
3 Local dimming is good
4. Quick bootup time
Cons
1. Picture quality is not that great looses details in dark and bright areas and looks blur
2. Upscaling of HD channels is very poor.
3. Picture sharpness is also not great and even the text also appearing blur.(from all source)
4. Viewing angles are bad
5.Colors are not accurate but it is not an issue,user calibrate
First I bought TCL C715 which had some picture quality issue. c715 had warm skin tone issue but can be resolved by choosing PC mode. Anyhow I returned that tv. If I compare with U79 with TCL-C715, both are very good tvs in terms of the picture quality. Due to TCLs 300nits panel its way behind U79 otherwise c715 is best value for money.C715 has better color reproduction and sharpness
Pros
1. Provides OLED like blacks
2. Very bright panel
3 Local dimming is good
4. Quick bootup time
Cons
1. Picture quality is not that great looses details in dark and bright areas and looks blur
2. Upscaling of HD channels is very poor.
3. Picture sharpness is also not great and even the text also appearing blur.(from all source)
4. Viewing angles are bad
5.Colors are not accurate but it is not an issue,user calibrate
First I bought TCL C715 which had some picture quality issue. c715 had warm skin tone issue but can be resolved by choosing PC mode. Anyhow I returned that tv. If I compare with U79 with TCL-C715, both are very good tvs in terms of the picture quality. Due to TCLs 300nits panel its way behind U79 otherwise c715 is best value for money.C715 has better color reproduction and sharpness
lightgamer
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My point is that the content itself is supposed to look terrible. There's nothing you can do about it. Hotstar's aim is to provide content for cheap. That automatically means they sacrifice on quality.
I just get the stuff from 'alternate sources' in higher quality. For example, the Mandalorian season 1 I have is over 100GB in size and encoded in very high quality HEVC. In comparison last time I checked Hotstar was streaming it in 5Mbps (5x lower) with much lower encoding efficiency as well.
Bx will be around 1 to 1.15 in diwali and CX will be 1.2-1.3
hey, I also would suggest the same as lightgamer's post #444. Additionally, on the Sony front, I would just add that the x8000h has an ips panel. So, not so good blacks/contrast.
1080p netflix and prime contents looks very good. Very close to 4k SDR content.
I meant hoststar and sonlyliv have inherently crap quality and upscaling to 4k blows up everything. FHD tv will look as bad but still better than 4k tv for these content.
For having advertised as HDR, mandelorian is a huge disappointment. Lower quality than 1080p netflix content.
One more detail:
Hisense Remote now app compatibility does not include 2019 models like H8F and H9F. But includes support for H8G and H9G and prior 2018 models.
But both toshiba U5050 and U7980 support remote now app.
U7980 could be a H8G in H8F clothing. Otherwise it would not have hardware for remote now app since they made transition to android and dropped support intermittently from what I read.
Hisense Remote now app compatibility does not include 2019 models like H8F and H9F. But includes support for H8G and H9G and prior 2018 models.
But both toshiba U5050 and U7980 support remote now app.
U7980 could be a H8G in H8F clothing. Otherwise it would not have hardware for remote now app since they made transition to android and dropped support intermittently from what I read.
neoonwheels
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What kinda HW r u talking abt?One more detail:
Hisense Remote now app compatibility does not include 2019 models like H8F and H9F. But includes support for H8G and H9G and prior 2018 models.
But both toshiba U5050 and U7980 support remote now app.
U7980 could be a H8G in H8F clothing. Otherwise it would not have hardware for remote now app since they made transition to android and dropped support intermittently from what I read.
But h8g is qled tv and 7980 is not qled.One more detail:
Hisense Remote now app compatibility does not include 2019 models like H8F and H9F. But includes support for H8G and H9G and prior 2018 models.
But both toshiba U5050 and U7980 support remote now app.
U7980 could be a H8G in H8F clothing. Otherwise it would not have hardware for remote now app since they made transition to android and dropped support intermittently from what I read.
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