Although everyone now has a smartphone to watch TV series, the need to add a TV as the infrastructure for home entertainment when decorating a new house. But how to choose a TV? Faced with TVs from major brands on the market and various parameters and professional terms that are incomprehensible to people, such as HDR, dynamic compensation, quantum dots, etc., many people are having trouble purchasing TVs.
This issue will briefly tell you how to choose a TV, so that everyone can avoid pitfalls when purchasing a TV.
1. Look at the size
First of all, before purchasing a TV, we must confirm the size of the TV we need to purchase. Generally speaking, the size needs to be combined with the distance between the TV wall in our living room and the sofa as a reference. If the distance is long, choose a large-size TV of more than 75 inches. If the distance is close, choose 55 inches.
In my personal experience, the larger the TV screen, the better the movie viewing experience will be. Of course, if an ordinary family wants to install a 98-inch or 100-inch TV, in addition to the expensive TV, you also have to consider whether the elevator can be put down. Otherwise, it will be more costly and laborious to ask a crane to arrange the TV to enter the home.
In addition, if the living room is relatively small, it is best not to blindly pursue large-sized TVs. Everyone has different acceptance levels. Some people will easily feel dizzy after watching the large screen for a long time.
2. Look at the picture quality
TV picture quality is the core of our must-see when purchasing. Whether the picture quality is clear enough and whether it brings you a smooth picture experience, these should be the focus of our attention. When it comes to picture quality, we must introduce resolution, refresh rate, color gamut, light control partition technology, motion compensation technology, and brightness.
resolution: The higher the screen resolution, the clearer the pixels will be. K resolution is the highest definition, but because the price is generally high, more people pursue a 4K resolution with a higher cost performance. But it is worth noting here that 4K TVs are also divided into real 4K and fake 4K.
- true 4K panel only has pixels of three colors: red, green, blue (RGB), and the effective pixel is 8.2 million;
- fake 4K panel has pixels of four colors: red, green, blue, white (RGBW), and the effective pixel is 6.15 million;
So, if you are pursuing picture quality, don't choose fake 4K products. Although the price of fake 4K TVs is lower, is not as good as a real 4K TV in terms of decoding capabilities, clarity, and frame rate .
Screen refresh rate: The higher the refresh rate, the higher the picture clarity and fluency will be. Generally speaking, if your purpose for TV is limited to watching TV series, then the screen refresh rate of 60Hz is enough. If you still need a TV to play games, it is recommended to choose 120Hz or even 144Hz.
color gamut: The higher the color gamut, the more the color is. It is recommended to choose more than 92% of DCI P3 wide color gamut TVs.
Light control partition technology: Generally speaking, the more light control partitions, the better. The LCD TV with chessboard-type light control partition technology is preferred. Compared with bar-shaped light control, it can increase the contrast of the picture, let the brightness light up and the darkness go dark. Of course, there is also OLED, diode self-luminescence technology, which does not have the need for light control at all. If you have a sufficient budget, you can directly choose it, and the details in the dark can be seen at a glance.
Motion compensation technology: Motion compensation is the guarantee of picture fluency. It allows users to see pictures with higher frame counts through frame insertion technology, thereby obtaining a smoother overall picture.
Brightness: The greater the peak brightness of , the better. It is an important criterion for judging true or false HDR. The peak brightness of the true HDR screen reaches 800 nits.
3. Watch memory
TV memory and mobile phone memory are the same, and are divided into running memory and body memory. It is recommended to run at least 2GB of memory, and the body storage memory is more than 16GB, and it is best to run at 32GB.
4. Watch boot ads
Personally, what I care most about buying a TV is whether there are boot ads, how long it will take, and whether the advertisements can be skipped. smart TV advertising is everywhere, which really makes me feel very annoying. So, for some brands of TVs, you need to wait for more than 30 seconds to turn on the advertisement, and you are not allowed to skip it. One advertisement will be broadcast several rounds, and I will not consider TVs like this.
It is reported that there is no startup advertisement for Samsung , Sony , LG, OPPO, Panasonic , TCL Thunderbird, and Huawei Honor Smart Screen. If you really can't stand the advertisement, you can filter out your favorite brands.
