Like cheap Android phones, cheap LCD televisions once sullied the good name of LCD. To the connoisseur they are truly hateful with their awful contrast ratio and colour balance. Skin tones look ghostly and the brightness is always too high with terrible pixilation...oh the horror, the horror! It used to be that any cheap TV was a bad TV, but there have been so many released and so many produced that even a sub £500 set now is likely to have 3D or Smart features as well as at least a passable display. When faced with the choice between a really good, affordable set or an expensive but utterly amazing one, most customers in this climate will settle for really good. That doesnt bode well for manufacturers investing heavily in larger and more expensive screens. Some manufacturers are already using this same technique to destroy the reputation of UHD before it even gets one. This could prove a beach-head but at what cost? A race to the bottom is not something heavily invested manufacturers want with 4K.
I.T. Consultant, technophile and Doctor Who fan. I like to talk about tech, take films apart and make excuses for Doctor Who's continuity errors. No other show has the power to make me feel like a big kid.
