Recommend me the best 55"-65" TV for $2500 max

Hi Guys,

I need a recommendation for TV with a MAX budget of $2500.

I would prefer it to have a thin bezel and a nice panel.

I dont need 3D OR Smart TV capabilities.

If you know of any good TVs, let me know.

Looking forward to your recommendations.

Thanks.

 

Samsung 64" Plasma PS64F5500AM

Great bang for your buck provided you don't get one that buzzes or have to deal with Samsung for warranty purposes which can be downright painful.

Better but more expensive Panasonic option

 

Up the budget by 1k and you can get the sony 4k UHD 55 inch model.

 

Looked at TVs last week. Ended up buying a 70" for way over your budget, but I did seriously consider a Hisense.

Only a little over your budget, and while it has the 3D and Smarts, it also has massive resolution and a 3 year warranty. Definitely worth considering.

 

I picked up one of the aforementioned PS64F5500AM the other week from Dick Smith for $1697. Very happy with the unit and has no buzzing or other issues. I realise it's not a top of the line quality unit but I decided to opt for a bit bigger size and this one seemed like great bang for buck.

 

If you don't need any frills....60" changhong for $899....

https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/129170

 

Purchased the Panasonic TH-P65ST60A 65" in early December. We have been very happy with the TV. Got it from Harvey Normal for $2200 delivered.

Probably wasn't too hard to be impressed, coming from an old 42" LG that was 7 years old! In saying that though, it is a very nice screen.

 

Smart features contribute bugger-all to the price of a TV. Seriously, it's no problem chucking a few cheap ARM chips in there and some software. It's the actually panels themselves that raise the cost - the bigger and faster the panel, the more the price rises.

EDIT: HINT! Sony's a bit more desperate to get their TVs into lounge rooms, so if you're in JB or Harvey's, haggle like a bastard. Samsung, LG will just shrug and go "Lol, piss off."

 

Got a Sony W900A 55" from Sony Centre for about 2k (price match w/ JB) and I love it.

 

I've got a 63" Fujitsu Plasma on the market. Way under that price. Speakers but no Table stand available. No Tuner / Has HDMI
Send Pm if it is big enough for you.

 

Another 60" deal...

"LG 60" FHD 3D Plasma SMART TV $1177 @ Bing Lee"

https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/129663

 

Plasma will cost you that much to run each year.
I ended up picking up a 60" 7 series Samsung LED for $1800... This thing is amazing.

 

Thanks for your recommendations guys.

After looking at some TV's it looks like I am going to buy a 60" LED.
55" looks really small compared to the rest, and a decent 65"+ is way out of budget.

So my question is if you guys had $2500 to spend which one of the following would you pick and why??

ATM im leaning towards the SONY and the 2 Samsungs because the panels look really nice and the colour of the Sony really pops out. (it would have been really good i could have seen all the 60" TV's side by side.)

LG 60" FULL HD SMART LED TV - 60LN5710 - $1896

SONY 60" R550A FULL HD LED SMART 3D TV - KDL60R550A - $1996

LG 60" FULL HD SMART 3D LED TV - 60LA6230 - $2096

SAMSUNG 60" FULL HD 3D DUAL CORE SMART LED TV - UA60F6400AMXXY - $2296

PANASONIC 60" FULL HD 3D IPS LED LCD TV - TH-L60DT60A - $2396

SHARP 60" FULL HD 3D AQUOS LED LCD TV - LC60LE951X - $2596

SAMSUNG 60" FULL HD 3D DUAL CORE SMART LED TV - UA60F7100AMXXY - $2998 - A friend ended up getting this for $2600 recently !!!

 

Paying MORE money to get a Smaller TV is not really a good idea since 55" doesn't really benefit from 4k content.

Care to show us where you got that information?

Latest comparison page I can find is here: http://www.rtings.com/info/lcd-vs-led-vs-plasma/power-consumption-and-electricity-cost

Shows plasma uses about twice as much power as LED. So in theory if I run a 65" plasma TV for a year at 5 hours a day, my annual bill is going to absolutely bankrupt me at a whopping $89 as compared to the measly sum of $50 on an equivalent LED. WOW THE AMAZING SAVINGS.

Get the 64" Samsung recommended above. It's worth the money.

 

Sample electricity cost is $0.34221 per kWh

www.choice.com.au:
Samsung PS60F8500 Plasma
- Energy consumption for one year (kWh): 930
- Cost: $318.2553

Samsung UA55F8000 LED
- Energy consumption for one year (kWh): 283
- Cost: $96.84543

Sharp LC60LE940X LED
- Energy consumption for one year (kWh): 331
- Cost: $113.27151

(Sharp is known to use a bit more power, but there wasn't a 60" Samsung available for comparison. Have included both a 55" Samsung and a 60" Sharp for comparisons sake. These are the calibrated tests, which are often lower than the published and out of the box power consumption).

So yes, $200+ per year, will be over $1,000 in 4 years time (with the expected electricity price increases). You will come close to the cost of the TV after 5 years (which is the minimum most would expect to get out of a big TV purchase).

For shits and giggles, I went looking for another source that had a calibrated 60" Samsung Plasma and LED... No joy, but I did find a 55" Sony 4k TV.

SONY W9 4K LED
- Energy consumption for one year (kWh): 287
- Cost: $113.27151

SAMSUNG F8500 PLASMA
- Energy consumption for one year (kWh): 1,132
- Cost: $387.38172

... I'm pretty impressed at how efficient the 4k TVs are! (Still not worth it at the moment, but not what i was expecting)

 

I have a 60" samsung series 8 which I'm incredibly happy with, got it in 2012. Picture quality is significantly better than no-name and lower spec (~$1000-1500) models from what I inspected when shopping(and from having my eyes bleed when watching friends el-cheapo big TVs), IMO if you like picture quality it's definitely worth paying for an upper spec model as the difference is very noticeable. From what I saw, the 'no frills' models don't just have less unnecessary features, they also have far worse picture quality.

 

So it's not going to cost me $2500 to run each year is it?