Top 10 best Philips 55 Inch 4k Smart Tv 2022 According to experts

This TV is amazing! I previously had a much older SAMSUNG TV, and was a bit hesitant to change brands. However, once setup, this TV is much better!The TV itself is very thin, and even lightweight. Some reviews state that two people is necessary to unpack, but with such feathery lightness, no friends no problem. Setup is a breeze and super simple. Even my GRANDPA who can’t even read English can set this up.The picture and colors on this TV are clear and crisp! No flooding of light from the edges or any fading of colors at all, unlike my older TV. I could actually notice colors that I never noticed before, ROYGBIV to the fullest – the WHOLE spectrum!Additionally, the sounds of this TV are remarkable!You could be playing music from another room, and still be able to hear the sounds from the TV no problem. Watching a NETFLIX series and don’t want to read subtitles? Munching on snacks while watching your shows? No problem, the sounds from the TV will cut through the sounds of chips & hardest jawbreakers.Features! What, there’s features?! YES! This TV comes JAMPACKED already! Talk about a smart TV, this is an EINSTEIN TV.Got a PS5? NINTENDO SWITCH? AND XBOX? No problem! This TV comes with 3, YES 3! HDMI ports.Want to stream a movie from USB drive? No problem!Cast from your Laptop/Macbook? Say less – BUILT-IN CHROMECAST!This TV is so smart, you can even talk to it, and it’ll talk back!Hey Google, what’s the weather?”69 degrees and chance of slight showers.”Hey Google, turn off the TV!**Powers Off**OK OK, all jokes aside and the best part though?The platform interface/menu.This TV brings all the streaming services and puts them all onto your homepage for extreme ease of accessiblity and choice.Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO MAX, etc, etc.They are all on your home page, with shows from each that may be interesting to the user.End Conclusion?Although may not be a popular brand, this TV is still on-par with the best of the best with the quality and innovation.If I had a choice, and a friend, BET, I’d buy this again!!

I went with this because it has better D65 P3 and BT.2020 coverage than either the C1 or G1. They’re all very close on P3 but it’s better by quite a bit on BT.2020, and I’ll take color accuracy over being able to crank up the room lights. 23.98fps material seems fine, and it’s able to handle higher bitrate Dolby Vision material over the LAN so I don’t need to reencode anything.It kills the Nano85 I was using originally in image quality of course, but that’s replacing a dying computer monitor where the edge-lit HDR won’t matter.Few regressions over the Nano / 2020 models:1) Pause and play buttons on the remote are gone. I had to get a $9 RCA IR remote because I need these. I often watch stuff while I make food or paint and can’t gunk up the magic remote wheel. Now I have a bunch of buttons for streaming services and voice assistants I don’t use that I plan to cover with plastic and encase in epoxy so I don’t press them. The 2020 remote pause and play buttons also work via IR, but as soon as you hit the wheel it pops up the “incompatible remote” dialog.Bad form in general removing the pause & play, they’re more useful inside the streaming services than the button for said service obviously.2) The file browser for the internal player tries to thumbnail everything. For small files this is kinda quick but for a 120GB .m2ts with no preset thumbnail it takes forever, and makes initial browsing of the network each boot horrible. Why there’s no option to not show thumbnails I don’t know. Weirdly .m2ts will show random frames when selected like anything else, so why it doesn’t just pull the first frame as a thumb is beyond me.3) Signed 24 bit PCM surround and TrueHD 5.1 tracks now play as garbled screeching. I didn’t test THD 5.1 on the Nano but PCM worked fine.4) Some subtitles won’t work, particularly with 1080p DolbyVision (internal pgs or external .srt). I’ve also hit 4k UHD DolbyVision subtitles that failed to display, while others worked fine. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to which work and which don’t. For example the forced subs on the John Wick titles all work fine (including 1 & 2 remuxed with generated DV and 3 with native DV), but the forced subs on TMNT with Rifftrax audio fail to display. It may be an issue of multiple audio tracks messing it up, more testing is needed.5) Not a regression, but since the BT and Wifi seem to have ungodly range I still get the random pairing requests from bored / stupid neighbors to share sound or video, with no way to block them from happening once short of a faraday cage around the back of the set. Please add an option to disable pairing requests? My simple Yamaha stereo receiver solved this by having a pairing mode that has to be entered first; my network is hardwired with wifi off on the TV so it just seems like a security risk to allow the random requests from any phone within 200 yardsAside from those relatively minor nitpicks it’s a great upgrade over the Nano series and an awesome price since I didn’t need 120Hz or obscene brightness. I’ve only hit issues with the dynamic contrast in one source (cartoons) and it even manages to upscale DVD .VOB pretty amazingly (but sadly can’t read the subtitle format used for those, so the old PS3 will see some use there).Edit: So the subtitle issue seems to just be .sup in general and those that I was seeing were hard-coded… So I tried a same-named .srt file, but they don’t work for .m2ts, or they’re broken in Dolby Vision titles (didn’t feel like using Dolby’s dog-slow muxer to create a compatible .mp4 to test this). External .srt and such do load with SDR .mkv files, anyway. Since my 1080p DV files are self encoded / DV generated, I just burn in the forced subs on encode now. 4k sources are a bigger issue because I’d rather not reencode and lose quality for the sole purpose of what are usually only a few lines of subtitling. As is I’m already dropping FEL data to convert to profile 8.1 so the set will play it. I wish they would have just left full profile 7 support in the TVs, from what I can determine it was better than that of any actual UHD BD players.Stereo PCM works so I’ve been able to use it for a few movies.The dynamic contrast issue has to do with this set’s silly inability to automatically switch between limited and full range for network files… The nano didn’t have a problem with this, and the TV needs to read the same header information to display the correct colorspace for the file, which makes me wonder whether it’s actually reading that.6) I’ll add one more nitpick; although never officially supported, apparently on the C1 you can use a USB 2.0 gigabit ethernet adapter at around half its speed to fix issues with very high bitrate network files. I hit a few issues and tried it… Doesn’t work with the A1, which is sad since 25 feet from the router the 5GHz WiFi is still slower than 100Mb Ethernet with no other devices on the Wi-Fi… Even if it were much faster:7) the last time I had wifi on I got hit with 3 wifi-direct pairing requests from one device within 3 minutes, with a popup over a big chunk of the middle of the video, defaulting to “accept” so it couldn’t be quickly dismissed. No option to block of course. One of them popped up instantly on dismissal of the previous, which means you could basically DOS anyone with one of these TVs on WiFi by writing a script to constantly try pairing with the device, rendering video unwatchable and controls useless. That last one goes beyond nitpick to “product breaking flaw” for some people and is the same in the whole OLED series AFAIK. I tried to report it to LG but they’ve shut down their own support forums and moved to Facebook, which I won’t use because I have *some* morals, and I couldn’t find a “bug report” page, so here it is. Have fun with it, trolls. 😉

UPDATE: (5 Stars).7 months in and we’ve had zero problems with this TV. Our fiber internet provider updated the Wi-Fi equipment in our house and this Fire TV is now able to pick up a 160 mbps typical signal strength. The quality of the picture is actually slightly better close-up now, though from several feet away, it’s just as good as before..No complaints thus far – a worthy investment. Upping my rating for the trouble-free operation!.ORIGINAL REVIEW: (4 Stars).I wanted to upgrade our 12- and 17-year-old TV’s and have been researching all the options. I used rtingsdotcom to compare performance, as well as online reviews, and it wasn’t easy. It seemed that unless you were spending big bucks, rtings always had issues.In the end, I went for the 65″ Vizio M65Q7-JO1 for the main TV. The ratings were pretty good and the value seemed good at $699 with an OEM 3-year warranty from my local membership warehouse. So, far I’ve been very pleased with it.This TV also allowed me to have a reference point for the rtings reviews. Knowing what they said about the Vizio compared with what I saw, I was able to use that to gauge other TV’s against my needs..These first gen Fire TV’s aren’t rated at all highly. However, when the 43 inch Fire TV was on sale for $259 with a free Echo Dot, I decided it was worth trying. The smaller TV is used almost exclusively by my wife to watch Food Network and HGTV (!) from a distance of about 13 ft. She doesn’t care about smart features and sits almost square on to the TV, slightly down and to the right in a brightly (daylight) illuminated ‘sunroom’, just off the kitchen..After unpacking the Fire TV, I immediately mounted it on a stand. (PERLESMITH Universal TV Stand – Table Top TV Stand for 37-55 inch LCD LED TVs). The included Fire TV feet would be too wide for the cabinet’s shelf. The required mounting screws were already in the VESA mounting points, which was great! No searching around for the right thread and length screws..On powering up the TV, Amazon had it all set up with my Wi-Fi password and Amazon account. Somewhat scary, but understandable, given that we have Echo Dots all around the house. So it automatically updated the firm- and soft-ware and was ready to go! The screen was looking good with no defects. Interestingly, the TV comes with just a short, get-up-and-run pamphlet, with no manual. I searched online and found a pdf, though, being an engineer, I was able to just go through the menus and quickly understand the systems. Other’s might struggle. Vizio actually has the manual built into the TV’s menu..We use Chromecast with Google TV and stream YoutubeTV on both TV’s, as well as my daughter’s TV, while she’s at college. I didn’t even bother to check out the Fire TV apps and immediately installed the Chromecast.I had trouble with the Chromecast remote. Google doesn’t list ‘Amazon’ or ‘Fire TV’ as options for the remote codes. I knew from research that the Fire TV is a TCL rebrand and tried that remote code offering. It sort of worked but wasn’t good enough. The volume was slow to respond, unless right up close to the TV. The power worked but didn’t work to turn on the Chromecast once it had turned itself off. The input selection was also problematic. After much trial and error, I got the Chromecast remote working correctly using the settings shown in the photo.I also found that I could connect the Fire TV remote to the Chromecast. There’s a video on YT on that. The Fire TV remote connects via BT to the Chromecast by long pressing the HOME button to go into pairing mode. You do have to hold the remote right next to the Chromecast itself to get it to connect to the Fire TV remote. It’ll come up as ‘AR’. Once connected it works perfectly but has to be disconnected to do anything with the TV settings. In the end, I just disconnected it and use the Google remote..I have found that my old TV’s had much better reflection handling. Any reflections were very muted. The modern TV’s all seem to be more reflective. The Fire TV is a little worse than the Vizio. You can see that in the photo. Fortunately, where my wife sits, the windows are out of view on the TV screen and it’s only with a black screen that the reflections are an issue. On the Vizio, I keep the curtains drawn over the window directly behind me..Brightness is as rtings said; not that bright. I found the best picture setting was DYNAMIC, with Cinema mode, Noise Reduction and Dynamic backlight OFF and standard white balance. This gives the brightest picture and the nicest color saturation. The TV works well in the room during the day. The Cinema mode resulted in a noticeable Soap Opera effect, which I don’t like.The display panel washes out very quickly as you view it off-center. At 40 degrees to the screen, the colors are not at all good and faces start to look a little gray. The Vizio is similar, but not as bad. Both are best viewed from directly in front..With 4K content, the picture quality is actually pretty good. I have no complaints. However, really close up, you can see artifacts and a white ghosting around objects. This is especially noticeable on non-4K content, where the close-up image also seems out of focus, with lots of artifacts. However, from a 6ft distance, the image isn’t bad.I watched some old 1980’s Bergerac episodes and the picture quality was quite acceptable with my picture settings.I do see that news text on the screen is not as well defined as on the Vizio. In the photos, you can see the Fire TV letters’ edges are rougher and less defined on the Fire TV compared with the albeit a larger and Quantum dot Vizio.CONCLUSION:If you are on a tight budget, I think the Amazon Fire TV is a viable option, but I certainly don’t recommend you buy it above $280. There are likely better options out there for a few dollars more.

Hisense 55A6HInstalled on a wall mount in my daughter’s bedroom. Remote control is very intuitive and could not be easier to navigate. Including Disney plus, Prime Video, Netflix, Peacock keys on the remote. Could not be easier. Unit also connected seamlessly with Directv. However, the picture contrast is a disappointment diminishing the overall picture quality. In fairness it is a entry level tv at a very attractive price. Smart midlevel TV’s with less features but with better contrast and picture quality are available usually at higher prices. Spending more for higher contrast and overall picture quality is a personal decision. If you can live with the average contrast, the question I asked myself is it worth $75 or more for better contrast and less features. Warranty from Hisense I believe is 2 years which is a plus. Overall big bang for the buck!Hisense 55A6HInstalled on a wall mount in my daughter’s bedroom. Remote control is very intuitive and could not be easier to navigate. Including Disney plus, Prime Video, Netflix, Peacock keys on the remote. Could not be easier. Unit also connected seamlessly with Directv. However, the picture contrast is a disappointment diminishing the overall picture quality. In fairness it is a entry level tv at a very attractive price. Smart midlevel TV’s with less features but with better contrast and picture quality are available usually at higher prices. Spending more for higher contrast and overall picture quality is a personal decision. If you can live with the average contrast, the question I asked myself is it worth $75 or more for better contrast and less features. Warranty from Hisense I believe is 2 years which is a plus. Overall big bang for the buck!Hisense 55A6HInstalled on a wall mount in my daughter’s bedroom. Remote control is very intuitive and could not be easier to navigate. Including Disney plus, Prime Video, Netflix, Peacock keys on the remote. Could not be easier. Unit also connected seamlessly with Directv. However, the picture contrast is a disappointment diminishing the overall picture quality. In fairness it is a entry level tv at a very attractive price. Smart midlevel TV’s with less features but with better contrast and picture quality are available usually at higher prices. Spending more for higher contrast and overall picture quality is a personal decision. If you can live with the average contrast, the question I asked myself is it worth $75 or more for better contrast and less features. Warranty from Hisense I believe is 2 years which is a plus. Overall big bang for the buck!Hisense 55A6HInstalled on a wall mount in my daughter’s bedroom. Remote control is very intuitive and could not be easier to navigate. Including Disney plus, Prime Video, Netflix, Peacock keys on the remote. Could not be easier. Unit also connected seamlessly with Directv. However, the picture contrast is a disappointment diminishing the overall picture quality. In fairness it is a entry level tv at a very attractive price. Smart midlevel TV’s with less features but with better contrast and picture quality are available usually at higher prices. Spending more for higher contrast and overall picture quality is a personal decision. If you can live with the average contrast, the question I asked myself is it worth $75 or more for better contrast and less features. Warranty from Hisense I believe is 2 years which is a plus. Overall big bang for the buck!Hisense 55A6HInstalled on a wall mount in my daughter’s bedroom. Remote control is very intuitive and could not be easier to navigate. Including Disney plus, Prime Video, Netflix, Peacock keys on the remote. Could not be easier. Unit also connected seamlessly with Directv. However, the picture contrast is a disappointment diminishing the overall picture quality. In fairness it is a entry level tv at a very attractive price. Smart midlevel TV’s with less features but with better contrast and picture quality are available usually at higher prices. Spending more for higher contrast and overall picture quality is a personal decision. If you can live with the average contrast, the question I asked myself is it worth $75 or more for better contrast and less features. Warranty from Hisense I believe is 2 years which is a plus. Overall big bang for the buck!Installed on a wall mount in my daughter’s bedroom. Remote control is very intuitive and could not be easier to navigate. Including Disney plus, Prime Video, Netflix, Peacock keys on the remote. Could not be easier. Unit also connected seamlessly with Directv. However, the picture contrast is a disappointment diminishing the overall picture quality. In fairness it is a entry level tv at a very attractive price. Smart midlevel TV’s with less features but with better contrast and picture quality are available usually at higher prices. Spending more for higher contrast and overall picture quality is a personal decision. If you can live with the average contrast, the question I asked myself is it worth $75 or more for better contrast and less features. Warranty from Hisense I believe is 2 years which is a plus. Overall big bang for the buck!

My Amazon delivery team delivered my TV yesterday, so this is review based on 1 day of using this TV. The first issue I had is that to even use the TV you have to download the Samsung Smart Things app and go through a set up process that takes around 25 minutes. You cannot just plug and play. Once that was done, I was able to use the remote to navigate through the TV functions. The remote is sleek and user friendly and so is the Samsung TV menu. My other TV is a 2017 UHD TV by another top manufacturer, so my opinions of this TV are based on how much better this TV is compared to my existing one. I got this curved TV, because I have only owned flat screens previously. This TV is a 55″, so I didn’t experience an immersed feeling like I would have if it were an 85″. However, the picture quality while watching a movie is excellent and it does feel like you could walk right into the screen. Vivid and rich colors. I did notice that around the perimeter of the TV screen that you can see very faint white shadows that take away from the screen ever being dark black while it is turned on. That is okay with me, because I am not a gamer where dark black colors seem to be important. This is not noticeable while watching a movie.the most important thing to me is the picture quality during a movie. The speakers are awesome. I will not need to buy a soundbar. I am happy that I have a curved TV, but I think that if you are buying a curved TV for the immersed feeling like you are in a movie theater this a 55″ curved TV will not be for you. You may find a flat screen that will better suit your needs. The built in Alexa is an awesome plus for me and my smart home. I will also be using this screen as monitor, to edit media content. This will be amazing for that too! Lastly, to be able to use the free TV apps is AWESOME because I just cut off my satellite TV last week. There are a ton of free streaming apps built in. I highly recommend this TV, and I would buy another one if they came in 85″. Unfortunately, I have read that they are discontinued in that size. Excellent TV for me!

As you can see from the picture, the FIRST TV I was sent was not an acceptable product. And honestly, I believe they sent this shattered screen one on purpose because I called & complained about a delivery hold up, so I believe they just grabbed a broken one & threw it on the truck because I suddenly & very quickly got it like the next day, strangely enough. Even more strange was that the two capable gentlemen who delivered this one had it strapped securely to the inside rear of the truck with absolutely nothing around it (in an empty 10ft radius) nothing that could’ve damaged it so badly, & these guys were not reckless or dropsy, so I’m still not sure how a TV shipped & handled that securely got shattered across the entire front of the screen while being handled by such careful pros. Thankfully the replacement was much better and I received a free, “DELUXE DELIVERY & UNBOX” which was a very misleading thing because when they got here w/ the TV, the young gentleman in charge continually explained how they could do nothing but take it out of the box, plug it in and ensure operation, which amounted to making sure it turned on, and then take the box and leave. That’s it, that’s all! They literally wouldn’t even help me lift it onto the table where it was to sit. I still don’t know what was “DELUXE” about this Deluxe Delivery & Unbox. Oh, & the same guy complaining about all they couldn’t do for me instead of focusing on what he could do? He also had to (quite annoyingly) repeatedly tell me that they weren’t even “supposed to deliver to you because of the construction” going on in what used to be our apt bldg’s parking lot. Yet Amazon delivers here practically everyday. But for some strange reason he was insistent that the construction out front was a definite No No for Amazon deliveries (or maybe he meant just for TV deliveries). I’m stil not sure. Either way, still makes no sense.So now to the TV. I ordered this 65″ Samsung Crystal Tizen for TWO MAIN REASONS.1) It had a voice remote & 3 voice assistants to choose from, but since I like Google & they were pushing this as a Google TV w/ Google Assistant, that was a big selling point for me. Actually the biggest selling point. I knew I could very easily connect my already established Google Assistant like I had done on a 4K Chromecast I bought from Walmart in 2020. But sadly, THAT NEVER HAPPENED! After speaking extensively to Samsung TV support, Google & Google Assistant support, Amazon support, & even some support chat bots & emails & community support forums & you name it, I tried it. The best advice I got to simply move forward from this nightmare fiasco was to go ahead & just use one of the other two remaining voice assistants that were still available on the TV, Samsung’s Bixby, or Amazon’s Alexa. Both of which I dislike. What I had seen of Samsung’s Bixby from interaction with it on my Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets was that it was fully advertisement saturated, and I dislike that immensely. Whereas Amazon’s Alexa is just one big speaking algorithm designed primarily for nothing more than selling more Amazon merchandise. I don’t need that on my TV remote & I’m also not buying another device to connect to it just to get it to work properly with the TV. Because of course if you select Alexa as your voice assistant they immediately try to upsell you into an Echo or some other unnecessary thing you don’t need to operate a voice assistant on your TV remote. Why do I need another device to make my TV remote work correctly with a voice assistant? I’ve been using Roku voice remotes for 3 or 4 yrs now & they work just fine w/ their system as is. No extra device purchase necessary. My Google Chromecast works amazingly well with its Google Assistant voice remote. Both of those items were less than $100 each. Buuuut, a brand new 65″ 4K Samsung Crystal Tizen has the WORST voice assistant remote I’ve ever encountered. And it WILL NOT HOOK UP TO GOOGLE ASSISTANT. So, on to the . . . .2nd REASON I PURCHASED THIS TV?Because it had 4K UPSCALING!!! What a huge feature in a TV this inexpensive! I’d purchased a Sony Blu-ray player w/ 4K upscaling and it was amazing. I fell in love with how old DVD movies were brought up to nearly 4K quality with doing nothing more than putting the movie in the carriage and pushing play. So when I saw that this Samsung Crystal Tizen had 4K upscaling in all picture viewing formats, BOOM, I was all in. That 4K upscaling & the 4K picture clarity in it’s Dynamic viewing mode have been the ONLY redeeming qualities in this entire fiasco of a purchase.Talk about a bunch of ridiculous false advertising, pitiful customer support & delivery inadequacies, & more difficulty & flawed merchandise than one person should have to endure in an entire year? But of course these are all avoidable issues that I somehow created on my own when I clicked, “Add to cart” & made a purchase, fully believing & trusting that i was going to receive what i had read & saw with my own eyes, in the time i was told I’d receive it.(Speaking of, did I mention the reason I called and complained about the delayed shipping to begin with was that my item, the broken TV in the picture, had been sitting in a little suburb about 20 minutes outside of town for going on 2 days and had not moved according to the tracking details? Which is why i personally believe that when I called to inquire about it, that my inquiry was taken as a slight & perturbed the heck outta whomever received it & because of it, this broken mess is what they sent me. Nearly 2 days in one spot 20 mins away from me? What would you do?)Oh, & apparently I’ll never have Google Assistant on this TV. It just won’t connect. Keeps telling me to login & connect but won’t let me. I’ve been FORCED to use Samsung’s Bixby as the voice assistant for the TV & remote. UGGGHHHHH!!!IN CLOSING – ITS A GOOD TV FOR THIS PRICE, BUT IF THEY RAISE THE PRICE? LOOK ELSEWHERE. AND REMEMBER, THE ONE FEATURE YOU’RE PERSONALLY AFTER? THE ONE FEATURE THAT MAY BE THE SELLING POINT THAT SOLD YOU ON THIS TV? IT’S HIGHLY POSSIBLE IT MAY NOT WORK AT ALL, OR MAY NOT WORK CORRECTLY. It’s also a very high possibility that if you run into shipping and delivery issues, you can end up with a broken TV and have to do a long & painstaking, time consuming, long time waiting for your money back, refund and return. Yay Amazon & Samsung!(What follows is an addendum to my review (11/16/22)THE REMOTE…….? Worst remote I’ve ever used. And I am not saying that lightly. Most remotes are pretty ergonomic and you can adapt to them easily, although sometimes it may take a while to get accustomed to it. This remote? It’s been months and I still fumble with it. For one, it’s much to small & thin. My biggest gripe about it, though, is that I often watch videos inside of streaming apps. And the main problem w/ the remote here is when you push the PLAY/PAUSE button? Every third or fourth time (sometimes several times in a row if your tired or absent minded) you will mistakenly also push the channel selector button which is right below it. So this obnoxious channel guide button on the remote? It’s placement & size makes it stick up off the remote face much too high, so it’s very easy to accidentally graze it w/ your thumb when clicking the PLAY/PAUSE button. Which then immediately takes you out of the video you were watching, closes that app and switches the input over to the TV channels. And this happens frequently. I cannot overstate this. Because, after all, what button do you use more frequently on your Smart TV remote than the PLAY/PAUSE button? Can you imagine how annoying it is to REPEATEDLY have to log back in to an app to finish watching a movie that you should only have to push PLAY on the remote to finish? Or how startled you REPEATEDLY are when the TV channels suddenly pop on in a LOUD COMMERCIAL when you were merely pushing the PAUSE button on the remote so you could go fix a soda in the kitchen while the movie was in a slow spot? And to have this happen every 3rd or 4th time you press that PLAY/PAUSE button on the remote? And don’t think it’s because I’m thick fingered or ignorant. I’m a guitar player & artist with extremely nimble & dexterous digits, so it’s not me! So if you decide to get this TV, maybe seriously consider a different remote. Don’t get me wrong, I love my Samsung TV. It’s a huge step up from that 65″ 4K TCL/Roku piece of crap I bought from Walmart in Oct 2020 that died on me TWICE & went into the black screen of death. And all before 2021 was through. A TV that barely makes it over a year before it dies twice? Yeah, that’s a bad TV. This is a much better product and I am much happier. And I don’t know what TCL Roku thinks UHD or 4K looks like, but that wasn’t it. Looking at the clarity on that junky old TCL ROKU TV was like the difference in looking at a muddy puddle compared to looking at clear water, and this Samsung is the clear water. So, I am pretty satisfied w/ the TV itself. It’s mainly the delivery process, the unclear definition of what a deluxe delivery and unbox means, the process required to return a broken TV and get a replacement, The Voice Assistant issue which I had massive problems with, and this piece of “you know what” remote. I would also like to highlight the fact that I finally figured out what the problem was with the Google Assistant. There is a small setting way off in an almost undisclosed area of the SmartThings settings (on your phone or device) for those of you who use Samsung products, and in that setting you have to delete and reset your Google Assistant. It was very hard to find and I only found it randomly and by chance. And I’m telling you this because I went through EVERY setting in SmartThings AND Google Assistant trying to find the problem with why Google Assistant would not connect on this TV. I WENT THROUGH ALL THOSE SETTINGS MULTIPLE TIMES and never saw this until one day I randomly came across it. And it is not easy to find, so I’m not even going to try and explain how to get there. Hopefully you’ll find it on your own. But I’ll tell you now, it is not an easy setting to find. It does not tell you about this setting ANYWHERE and not a single Tech or help agent was able to direct me in the way I needed to go to fix this so the TV would work with Google Assistant. It stands to reason that one would think this is something that would automatically configure on its own so that your systems would Jive together. But it does not. So, yes, I was finally able to get Google Assistant to operate correctly on this TV. If you have Google Assistant set up on something other than this TV, say a Chromecast or in the SmartThings app on a Samsung smartphone? You will need to reset it and go into every setting and reconfigure it to get it to work with this TV. Hope this helps someone not to suffer and struggle through the nightmare I endured here. But after all’s been said and done, I AM VERY HAPPY with my purchase and very satisfied with the reasonable price. I just wish the service had been more helpful and thorough with instructions and directions & just good general customer support. But, all that aside? I got a great TV for a very fair and reasonable price . I’m very satisfied with my purchase even though it has taken me literally months to work out these goofy little kinks that should have been fixed on day one.Thank you for the awesome Samsung TV, Amazon! (Please make them restructure this 💩 remote!)

Love the Vizio products.

This is a nice tv. I love Roku. Not a fan of Fire stick systems. Roku is far superior for folks like me that aren’t all that technically inclined. It’s just so simple to get hooked up. Because it’s WiFi you don’t need the old cable box anymore if you want to stream or just hook up to your cable via WiFi. It’s a little bit different tv watching experience. You don’t have numbers on the remote. If you want to hook up your cable box so you have an HDMI you just use the Roku remote to turn on the tv and your cable box remote to change channels. If you’re like me and not too savvy with this technology you probably understand what I’m saying. 😂 The picture is crisp and clear. The sound is good. We put this on our mantle and the feet fit perfectly. We have a standard width mantle. This is a 58″ tv. It’s super light!!! I can’t get over how much lighter it is from an Insignia that we replaced. ( Died in just 2 years…junk) I’ve had 3 RCA’s in my life and I’ve always had good luck with them. We shall see. For the price you can’t go wrong with this. I’m seeing the 43″ haven’t been performing. I’ll update this if something happens to it prematurely.

Over the years I have purchased a number of different flat screen TVs. Hands down, I have been most satisfied with Sony Brand for flat screen TVs, so I always seek the Sony brand first when looking for a new flat screen TV.I needed a 43-44″ unit to replace an older Vizio in my master bedroom. Anything bigger and I have problems with where to mount it to the wall, and I really did not need a bigger screen to have to engineer a solution for. It can be hard to find good smart TVs in this size class, so I was pleased to see Sony offered 43″ units in both the 80K and 85K models. I elected to purchase the 80K 43″ as it had the best value for my needs.Package actually arrived a day early, which is always nice. I promptly did a temporary setup of the TV (not mounting to the wall just yet) to insure everything setup correctly and all the features work. It was truly a breeze to setup, but of course this is not my first rodeo with Sony smart TVs so that helps.This is the first flat screen TV with the newly implemented GoogleTV. My last one, a Sony 65″ was still an Android branded TV, so there are some differences in how this new one interacts with the user compared to my earlier one. 30 minutes of playing with it after it was all set up though.. and I actually like the new GoogleTV format. Sure.. it’s designed to compete with FireTVs and similar smart TVs… pushing a lot of content from a lot of different sources on the Home screen, but I simply ignore most of those and focus on using specific apps installed.My one disappointment is with GoogleTV, the Google Play Movies&TV app from Google is now buried. You can call it up easy enough with the Google Assistant and the voice command feature on the remote, but I prefer to have easy push button access from the Home screen. I found an easy way to do this, as the button on the remote right below the TV button is the input button and when you push it, you don’t just get push button selection of the various input sources to the TV, you can also use it for push button access to a wide range of “system apps” that come native installed as part of Google TV. So I simply moved the GPM&T app icon over to the left hand side of the input displays, and success! Now a simple push of the input button and then a simple click on the app and up it comes. It is actually easier than finding and seeking apps on the Home Screen.Video Quality:In reading online reviews of this model, reviewers (who are typically nerds in this department) seemed kind of worked up about the video quality not being up to the competition Thing is, I find this claim to be nerdishly petty, at least for the smaller 43 and 50 inch screen versions. They may be correct on the larger screen units, as that is where video quality issues are most noticeable. Maybe the 43 uses a different flat panel technology than the bigger units (reviewers usually go straight to reviewing the 65 inch formats), but personally I find the image quality is better than my 2 year old higher end Bravia from Sony. So I am very pleased with the color, brightness, contrast, and black levels…. at least for a bedroom location.Audio Quality:Though I run all my audio through a TosLink digital decoder, then through a pre-amp and on to speakers and headphone set ups, I did test the native speakers and honestly they are pretty good for the stock sound system in this price range and class. All the classic adjustments like equalizer, surround sound, level offset to balance different audio sources, etc are all there and are easy to access and adjust to personal taste. It also have a stock feature that allows you to adjust the voice band of the sound system to emphasize voices, which is a good feature to have with so many modern movies over saturating the sound channel with music and sound effects.Performance:This TV is faster than my high end 2 year old Bravia. Super crisp response to user commands and selections, and the video performance is outstanding. Response to the remote is solid and fast too, which is also important now days since literally every request to the TV is through the remote. I found Google Assistant Voice to be crisp and responsive as well.I cannot comment on reliability specifically for this unit, but honestly Sony TVs have always been rock solid in that department for me. I have a 10 year old Sony Bravia in our Den that still works as good as the first day I fired it up, and never any issues. Same with my large screen Bravia that is two almost 3 years old now. So my expectation is this too will be a solid unit in terms of reliability.Things to be aware of, and cautious about:The screen literally goes to the edge of the sides of the TV chassis. Which means you need to be very careful when handling this unit so you do not stress fracture the screen glass. Sony puts a nice cardboard cover (with a foam package surface on the screen side, which is blue-taped on all four sides to the chassis. This protects the screen from hand contact, and Sony recommends you not remove it until you have installed the TV. It does the job, but keep in mind, you could still crack the glass if you put undo hand stresses on the screen even with the protective cover in place. I’m sure this is more of a concern on the bigger and much heavier larger screen units, so be extra careful and avoid any accidents.Overall a great TV at a great price. Yes, you can find others for less money, but they have other issues to contend with. For me… Sony GoogleTV all the way now days.

Yes lemons happen but pretty frustrating to get a brand new tv at this price and have it not work. Only thing that happens is a flashing red light that blinks 5 times. Screen has never lit up. Yes I did all the troubleshooting you can easily find online and did it again with the rep on the phone. This is not my first Sony Bravia TV. Sony customer service tells me I have to wait 3 business days before reviewing my case which is pretty disappointing not having a plan of action.Of course I’ll update this review if things change and hope their customer service will come through.BELOW ADDED 1/14/23As an update, I waited a full week and received no emails nor phone calls from Sony customer service with an update or a plan for my case moving forward. This morning I called Sony customer service and was told it was assigned to the Engineering department and that the case had not been touched since I called a week ago. He said that department is closed on the weekends but that he will make a note in hopes they will address it on Monday when they return. The agent on the phone was great, but this is poor service.I am still trying to give them the good faith benefit of the doubt, but I’m starting to grow cynical. I was told they’d contact me in 3 business days with a plan forward, and I had to call them after a full week to be told they hadn’t touched my case. Having at least a gameplan would make me feel like they are trying to solve my issue. This is my 3rd TV with Sony. This type of customer service for a new product feels unacceptable.UPDATED 1/20/23So after my updated review and talking to Sony last week, I put a tweet out asking for help from Sony Support US on the same day. They responded asking for a case number and I responded back explaining the situation. They then wrote me telling me the same thing I told them the customer service person told me and said “Please kindly provide us with 24 to 48 working hours, so they’ll follow up with you and provide a solution to your case”. That brings me to today, 1/20/23 at the end of a Friday business day with no response from them.When I first discovered this problem, I followed Amazon’s guidance and worked in good faith with the manufacturer. As a quick summary:-I called on 1/7: was told give them 3 business days-I called on 1/14: was told Engineering hadn’t touched the case and it was pending-I messaged Sony support US with the above and they regurgitated what I told them but said give us “24-48 working hours”I have given them 80 working hours (2 full weeks) and I don’t even have a plan moving forward.I know Sony is a quality name but BUYER BEWARE ASKING THEM FOR SUPPORT. I don’t have much more time to give them before my return window closes with Amazon. If there somehow is an update after this I’ll share but I’m doubtful.UPDATED 1/25/23Today was the day I was going to put in a return request with Amazon and today is when Sony called me. It’s been 2 and a half weeks (100 working hours) when I was quoted 3 business days and then 48 working hours. The representative asked me the same questions as the previous person about what troubleshooting steps I went through. I told them the rep went through it with me while on the phone and told them the steps again. They asked if my TV has done anything else other than the red light that flashes 5 times and I said no. He put me on hold and then said my TV needs servicing.From there, he said I was being upgraded to the “concierge department” and it would take 2 business days to hear back from them. I said “so that means you’ll call me on Friday”. He said yes.UPDATED later 1/25/23So within an hour of posting the above an incredibly empathic and positive Sony customer service associate called me and absolutely delivered a stunning customer service performance. They were communicative about the process, answered my questions, put together a plan, made sure I had a contact name and phone number and walked me through next steps to get the support I need. I cannot stress how night and day this phone call was vs. the previous communications Sony has had with me. They have instilled hope in what felt like a hopeless situation.I have to take some pictures of the unit before doing next steps.ADDED 1/26/23So today, a new enthusiastic and empathic customer service staff member called me, confirmed my photos were approved, and said they are delivering a new (not refurbished I confirmed) TV to me. The delivery team is also going to make sure the new TV works, repackage my old TV and take it away. Again, this new associate has NAILED the customer service.I can’t stress how dramatically different this experience has been. It is almost as if I’m talking to two different companies. The last 24 hours have been absolutely impressive and they are providing me an incredible white glove service.This just blows my mind. If the front end experience had even a portion of the “concierge team” empathy and communicated a plan I never would have had an issue. I hope that’s something they consider in their training plans.Yes, I will continue to update my review and am looking forward to writing about the actual TV itself.