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3.0 out of 5 starsSlow to respond, mediocre image quality
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2023
I bought this TV because it was the size needed to fit within a constrained space, but provide the maximum screen size for the subject space - and it was cheap.
It fits well and the screen size is fully maximized for the allotted space - to which I am happy.
What I don't like about this TV is that it is very slow! Compared to my prior TV which was just a standard TV (vs. a smart TV), everything worked faster than on this TV. On this TV, when I select a channel or stream, it takes nearly twice as long vs. my prior TV for that channel/stream to open and commence. Of course, this is always a problem with streaming vs. live TV - but this TV is slow to a whole new level of being slow.
Image quality, especially for live broadcast sports is also wonky. When I put on a football game, there are numerous instances that initially image quality is super low - like worse than non-digital over the air antennae TV quality. It certainly isn't anything resembling HD. But alas, this awful quality only lasts several seconds before it finally fixes itself.
But then, the game camera chances to a different camera - and if the scene is very different than the prior camera angle, this can repeat itself - dropping to such a low quality level that it makes watching useless (you certainly can't see the football, or even the player number, or even read the yardage markers painted on the field). But alas, this corrects itself after a few seconds. But this happen way too often.
I don't know if the TV should have been designed with a higher buffering capacity so that, while being a few seconds behind the live game, the image quality would be consistent. I don't know if the video digital conversion processors used are such a low quality that they don't have the power to provide a consistent reliable image, or what?
The other thing that I fear is that I've now bought a pretty cheap smart TV to replace what was a pretty cheap standard (ie. not smart) TV. Everything about this TV tells me that if it lasts 5 years, I would be very lucky. The prior unintelligent TV lasted over 15 years . . .
So in general, I would say that I can't recommend this TV overall. It works, but not particularly well. It seems like it's cheaply made (with the chips, electronic components, etc. . . ) For the first few weeks, I considered returning it (actually still have the box) thinking it must be defective . . . The pluses are that it's a perfect fit for my limited space and it was cheap (ie. didn't cost very much).