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TVs & Home Cinema

Televisions - Through The Maze

You just want a television, not a ‘Masters’ on TV’s, I get it. Here it is in a nutshell:

Screen Size;
Picture Quality;
Sound;
Smart TV;
Best TV Brand;
Price;

Bigger really is better.
Go for 4K Ultra HD with HDR or 8K QLED with a bigger budget.
A sound bar is good, a soundstage is better, with Dolby Atmos is even better.
Most are smart.
Go for a LG, Sony or Samsung.
That’s your call but you get what you pay for.

Home Cinema

Upgrade your audio for an immersive cinematic experience, goosebumps included and create your own home cinema.

These amazingly thin TVs do come with their own internal speakers. But there’s no room at the front, it’s all screen. You can enhance the visual marvel of these TVs by improving the audio with surround sound systems.

A bit more depth on televisions

Sound Bars

Televisions Screen Size

Televisions are available from 32” to an impressive 100”. That’s a whopping 8’, Make sure you can fit it through your front door.

Larger screens do have the best picture quality and improved viewing angles. You’ll want the whole screen to be more or less within your main vision with minimal impact on your peripheral vision.

Where your locating it will have some bearing on size. In the kitchen televisions will be smaller than TVs in the TV room.

The table on the right gives a rough guide but ultimately, it’s up to your own personal preference.

Viewing Distance Guide

<1.5m
1.5 to 2m
2m to 2.5m
2.5m to 3m
>3m

<32″
32″ to 39″
40″ to 45″
46″ to 55″
>56″

The clue is in the name. It’s a long bar shaped speaker that is usually located beneath TVs. Most come with a wireless subwoofer which will require plugging in to a power source.

BOSE

Soundbar 700 with Google Assistant & Amazon Alexa.

More info.

Soundstage

Televisions located flat against a wall, over a sideboard or fireplace not only saves space it appears smaller too. There’ll be no need to buy furniture to sit it on and that’s a space and cost saver.

Is a flat speaker that has more depth than a soundbar. They generally have a builtin sub-woofer.

Picture Quality - Resolution

The more pixels the sharper and more life-like the picture, the better the image quality.

4K Ultra HD has a resolution of 3840 x 2160. That’s over 8 million pixels and gives a fantastic picture quality with great detail.

4K Ultra HD – The Certified logo confirms to Digital Europe UHD standards.
Ensuring brilliant image quality.

4K Ultra HD Premium – The Certified logo conforms to UHD Alliance standards.
A higher standard ensuring a wide range of colours, vibrant detail and brilliant contrast.

Clearer bass, treble a big room filling sound.

SONOS PLAYBASE

Wireless Soundstage - Black

More info.

8K QLED

8K resolution is now available. It’s 4 times higher than 4K UHD with more than 33 million pixels.

Pioneered by Samsung and available in QLED. It can upscale your content using artificial intelligence to analyse what you’re watching and recreating it in higher resolution. Quality with greater clarity, deeper blacks giving better contrast and a more immersive image.

In Ambient mode it can mimic the wall behind the TV blending in with your decor (take a photo of the wall with a smartphone and send it to the TV). Or set it to show information, photos or play music. It’s better to think of it as a ‘screensaver’ than a televisions.

Cinema System

SONY

HTXF9000 2.1 Wireless Cinematic Sound Bar with Dolby Atmos

More info.

Dolby Atmos

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For a better sound experience look out for Dolby Atmos surround sound technology. It expends existing surround sound technology by adding heightened channels.

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