Hitachi 48 Inch Ultra HD/4K TV - €385 (Could Expire on 14th)

smelly sock · 15-03-2017 12:19pm

ibFoxer wrote: »

Agreed re Netflix- it may not be true 4K but it is a sight better than 1080p, and it's stunning. For lols I must "acquire" a 4K movie and give it a whirl.

Also agree on the price- toss between this 48" at €350 and a "higher quality" brand at a smaller size for similar money, this will win every time- the value in it is easy to see.

PM me if you need to know where to "acquire" such a thing!!

Youtube 4k is true 4k though. So playing that will do the same thing.

VeVeX · 15-03-2017 12:20pm

smelly sock wrote: »

I'd agree with the Hisense stuff. I was going to order a 4k 43inch off Amazon but really don't like buying electronics that way. To much hassle if anything goes wrong.

It was the 340 euro price tag for this that made my mind up.

I have watched Arrival 4k, Hacksaw ridge 4k and some of the grand tour in 4k and it's amazing.

Don't trust netflix 4k whatsoever. I don't think it's true 4k.

Hacksaw ridge 4k for example is 40gb.

Netflix is 4k resolution although they deploy it at a lower bitrate compared to Blu Ray.

smelly sock · 15-03-2017 12:21pm

VeVeX wrote: »

Netflix is 4k resolution although they deploy it at a lower bitrate compared to Blu Ray.

So the lower bitrate affects quality?

I have compared it to some of the 4k stuff I have downloaded and it doesn't come close to it.

ibFoxer · 15-03-2017 12:28pm

smelly sock wrote: »

So the lower bitrate affects quality?

I have compared it to some of the 4k stuff I have downloaded and it doesn't come close to it.

Ssshhhhh- icksne on the downloaday

All joking aside I haven't even tried to download 4K stuff- I will later

smelly sock · 15-03-2017 12:30pm

ibFoxer wrote: »

Ssshhhhh- icksne on the downloaday

All joking aside I haven't even tried to download 4K stuff- I will later

Just look at the youtube stuff IBFOXER.

The sample football of Barcelona is incredible.

VeVeX · 15-03-2017 12:32pm

smelly sock wrote: »

So the lower bitrate affects quality?

Most definitely. Compression degrades picture quality.

GY A1 · 15-03-2017 1:56pm

anyone spot a bracket on offer
cant remeber where i got the last bracket fairly reasonable

ibFoxer · 15-03-2017 4:14pm

GY A1 wrote: »

anyone spot a bracket on offer
cant remeber where i got the last bracket fairly reasonable

I got a very tidy one in PC world before Christmas, Logik brand

smelly sock · 15-03-2017 5:06pm

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/5487673/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CHome+entertainment+and+sat+nav%7C14419512/c_2/3%7Ccat_19780832%7CTelevisions%7C14419667.htm

Gone back up in price now.

fdevine · 15-03-2017 5:22pm

smelly sock wrote: »

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/5487673/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CHome+entertainment+and+sat+nav%7C14419512/c_2/3%7Ccat_19780832%7CTelevisions%7C14419667.htm

Gone back up in price now.

And the 10% off offer is finished too

Current price valid until 28/03 so we'll see after that

smelly sock · 15-03-2017 5:27pm

fdevine wrote: »

And the 10% off offer is finished too

Current price valid until 28/03 so we'll see after that

Pretty much a hundred quid dearer.

I was considering getting a second one for the room.

Hygro · 17-03-2017 4:37pm

I convinced my parents last weekend to buy the Hitachi (got it for the 385 plus the 10% discount) only problem is the picture settings. I'm colour blind so I'm not sure my eyes are the best for picture quality settings. I used some older Hitachi LED 2012 model settings I found online but I was wondering what settings you guys used. Any help would be appreciated. It's the 64U model if that makes any difference.

smelly sock · 17-03-2017 7:13pm

Settings for what??

deco nate · 17-03-2017 7:15pm

smelly sock wrote: »

Settings for what??

Colour settings.
Sorry I can't help I've a Samsung.
Have you tried rtings site?

smelly sock · 17-03-2017 7:18pm

deco nate wrote: »

Colour settings.
Sorry I can't help I've a Samsung.
Have you tried rtings site?

So for watching a movie switchas it to cinema?

deco nate · 17-03-2017 7:21pm

smelly sock wrote: »

So for watching a movie switchas it to cinema?

Better to get the colours looking right, contrast and brightness too. If you go to rtings site they have a video tutorial explaining all about it.
(or look it up on YouTube)

smelly sock · 17-03-2017 7:24pm

deco nate wrote: »

Better to get the colours looking right, contrast and brightness too. If you go to rtings site they have a video tutorial explaining all about it

What are ye looking for though?

deco nate · 17-03-2017 8:07pm

Hygro wrote: »

I convinced my parents last weekend to buy the Hitachi (got it for the 385 plus the 10% discount) only problem is the picture settings. I'm colour blind so I'm not sure my eyes are the best for picture quality settings. I used some older Hitachi LED 2012 model settings I found online but I was wondering what settings you guys used. Any help would be appreciated. It's the 64U model if that makes any difference.

http://uk.rtings.com/tv/learn/how-to-calibrate-your-tv

Try this

https://www.google.com/amp/www.pcmag.com/article/346337/why-tv-calibration-matters?amp=1

BigBulldog · 17-03-2017 10:19pm

Any tips on where to get 4k content? Torrents or where?

deco nate · 17-03-2017 10:23pm

Netflix

smelly sock · 18-03-2017 8:20am

BigBulldog wrote: »

Any tips on where to get 4k content? Torrents or where?

I'll pm you later.

smelly sock · 18-03-2017 8:36am

deco nate wrote: »

Netflix

Poor 4k quality though.

smelly sock · 19-03-2017 12:46pm

So I've had the 74u just over a week. Again really happy with the product v the price. 4k playback is excellent. Up scaling isn't wonderful but most of my stuff is 1080 anyway. USB playback has handled anything I though at it.

Mr.Crinklewood · 19-03-2017 4:36pm

Does BBCi player work on these?

Invincible · 19-03-2017 5:07pm

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Does BBCi player work on these?

Without a VPN/proxy probably not.

ibFoxer · 20-03-2017 11:45am

smelly sock wrote: »

So I've had the 74u just over a week. Again really happy with the product v the price. 4k playback is excellent. Up scaling isn't wonderful but most of my stuff is 1080 anyway. USB playback has handled anything I though at it.

I imagine beauty is in the eye of the beholder is very apt for this, but imo it does a very tidy job with upscaling, certainly far better than any of the LCD/LED 1080p TV's i have had.

smelly sock · 20-03-2017 12:10pm

ibFoxer wrote: »

I imagine beauty is in the eye of the beholder is very apt for this, but imo it does a very tidy job with upscaling, certainly far better than any of the LCD/LED 1080p TV's i have had.

Yeh look it it's a small gripe on my part if you like. It's 4k upscaling supposedly. I'm more than happy though as I have said.

chops018 · 09-05-2017 10:53pm

Anyone who purchased one of these TV's have any problems with the internet on it?

I have Virgin Media internet, the 360mb package. Although on a speed test on my laptop I seem to only get between 50-60mb. Assumed this would be plenty fast for the TV.

Anyway, when I first got the TV it seemed fine, now it rarely works. On the settings it says it's connected, but when I try to use any of the apps they just don't work and it comes up saying "please connect your device to the internet to use the smart TV features", but as I said, in settings it says I am connected. Then when I do a speed test it says it's only getting 1mbps.

I have tried deleting the wifi profile and adding it back again but that doesn't seem to do it.

As above, when I first got the TV I went on YouTube to look at some 4K videos (which were amazing btw), the YouTube app would load up right away and everything worked fine. Now it rarely loads up at all, and if it does it's very slow.

It doesn't make me too angry as the TV was extremely cheap and I'd rarely use the internet features of the TV as I have the Xbox One S connected, so would just use that for Netflix. But annoying this tonight as I wanted to throw on YouTube.

Thoughts?

colm_mcm · 09-05-2017 10:55pm

Have you tried an ethernet?

You should probably change wifi channel too. What modem are you using?

Slutmonkey57b · 09-05-2017 11:04pm

chops018 wrote: »

As above, when I first got the TV I went on YouTube to look at some 4K videos (which were amazing btw), the YouTube app would load up right away and everything worked fine. Now it rarely loads up at all, and if it does it's very slow.

It doesn't make me too angry as the TV was extremely cheap and I'd rarely use the internet features of the TV as I have the Xbox One S connected, so would just use that for Netflix. But annoying this tonight as I wanted to throw on YouTube.

Thoughts?

You know there's a you tube app for the Xbox... Right?

stamjoe · 09-05-2017 11:09pm

chops018 wrote: »

Anyone who purchased one of these TV's have any problems with the internet on it?

I have Virgin Media internet, the 360mb package. Although on a speed test on my laptop I seem to only get between 50-60mb. Assumed this would be plenty fast for the TV.

Anyway, when I first got the TV it seemed fine, now it rarely works. On the settings it says it's connected, but when I try to use any of the apps they just don't work and it comes up saying "please connect your device to the internet to use the smart TV features", but as I said, in settings it says I am connected. Then when I do a speed test it says it's only getting 1mbps.

I have tried deleting the wifi profile and adding it back again but that doesn't seem to do it.

As above, when I first got the TV I went on YouTube to look at some 4K videos (which were amazing btw), the YouTube app would load up right away and everything worked fine. Now it rarely loads up at all, and if it does it's very slow.

It doesn't make me too angry as the TV was extremely cheap and I'd rarely use the internet features of the TV as I have the Xbox One S connected, so would just use that for Netflix. But annoying this tonight as I wanted to throw on YouTube.

Thoughts?

This happens to me quite often and YouTube will say not connected and also the home screen but hitting the netflix button seems to make it all connected correctly because after that the YouTube app works correctly

chops018 · 09-05-2017 11:55pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

Have you tried an ethernet?

You should probably change wifi channel too. What modem are you using?

No, I haven't tried that. Wouldn't be bothered with the hassle. The Horizon box is the one we are using, and that's in another room connected to a different TV.

How do I change wifi channel?

Slutmonkey57b wrote: »

You know there's a you tube app for the Xbox... Right?

Yes, I do indeed. I ended up using that instead. As I said, it's not a huge loss if I can't use the smart tv functions, as everything is on the Xbox anyway. The quality of the TV itself so far seems decent, and it was extremely cheap. But still, money was paid for a brand new TV, so you'd expect this stuff to work, especially as my internet connection is fairly good. 50-60mb is not a bad speed, and if I tweaked my laptop I'd probably get even faster.

stamjoe wrote: »

This happens to me quite often and YouTube will say not connected and also the home screen but hitting the netflix button seems to make it all connected correctly because after that the YouTube app works correctly

Thanks. I will have to try this next time. Hopefully this isn't the start of the TV going finicky altogether on me.

Thanks for all the replies so far all. Will update next time I do try using the online features of the TV. Back to the Xbox for now.

jimmycrackcorm · 10-05-2017 12:43pm

chops018 wrote:

I have Virgin Media internet, the 360mb package. Although on a speed test on my laptop I seem to only get between 50-60mb. Assumed this would be plenty fast for the TV.

That 50-60mb sounds like is your laptop WiFi limitation. Try testing using a cake connection and you should see it a lot faster.

I've a slightly different model of this tv non-ultra, but same smart software. I've mine connected via cable and generally have no issues except the occasional YouTube not loading a video the first time.

ibFoxer · 10-05-2017 8:49pm

chops018 wrote: »

Anyone who purchased one of these TV's have any problems with the internet on it?

I have Virgin Media internet, the 360mb package. Although on a speed test on my laptop I seem to only get between 50-60mb. Assumed this would be plenty fast for the TV.

Anyway, when I first got the TV it seemed fine, now it rarely works. On the settings it says it's connected, but when I try to use any of the apps they just don't work and it comes up saying "please connect your device to the internet to use the smart TV features", but as I said, in settings it says I am connected. Then when I do a speed test it says it's only getting 1mbps.

I have tried deleting the wifi profile and adding it back again but that doesn't seem to do it.

As above, when I first got the TV I went on YouTube to look at some 4K videos (which were amazing btw), the YouTube app would load up right away and everything worked fine. Now it rarely loads up at all, and if it does it's very slow.

It doesn't make me too angry as the TV was extremely cheap and I'd rarely use the internet features of the TV as I have the Xbox One S connected, so would just use that for Netflix. But annoying this tonight as I wanted to throw on YouTube.

Thoughts?

I have encountered no problems, and this thing gets used every day (we also bought a corner sofa with a chaise lounge and i just go there now

) but i'll keep an eye on it.

colm_mcm · 10-05-2017 8:51pm

chops018 wrote: »

No, I haven't tried that. Wouldn't be bothered with the hassle. The Horizon box is the one we are using, and that's in another room connected to a different TV.

How do I change wifi channel?

Yes, I do indeed. I ended up using that instead. As I said, it's not a huge loss if I can't use the smart tv functions, as everything is on the Xbox anyway. The quality of the TV itself so far seems decent, and it was extremely cheap. But still, money was paid for a brand new TV, so you'd expect this stuff to work, especially as my internet connection is fairly good. 50-60mb is not a bad speed, and if I tweaked my laptop I'd probably get even faster.

Thanks. I will have to try this next time. Hopefully this isn't the start of the TV going finicky altogether on me.

Thanks for all the replies so far all. Will update next time I do try using the online features of the TV. Back to the Xbox for now.

You should really get a separate modem from virgin as the Horizon box can't deliver the speed you're on, and the wifi performance of the new hub is a million times better than the Horizon box.

Details on changing channel here
http://support.virginmedia.ie/app/answers/detail/a_id/625/~/changing-wireless-settings-on-the-horizon-tv-hd%2B-box

chops018 · 10-05-2017 9:24pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

You should really get a separate modem from virgin as the Horizon box can't deliver the speed you're on, and the wifi performance of the new hub is a million times better than the Horizon box.

Details on changing channel here
http://support.virginmedia.ie/app/answers/detail/a_id/625/~/changing-wireless-settings-on-the-horizon-tv-hd%2B-box

Hi Colm.

Thanks for that.

I actually got that new modem from them already, must have been about year ago now. Anyway, my internet was actually much worse with it so I told them to take I back and put the internet back to the horizon box.

colm_mcm · 10-05-2017 9:51pm

Was it the white one you got?

chops018 · 11-05-2017 1:00pm

Yes, I got the white one!

chops018 · 15-05-2017 9:42pm

Ok, the TV decided to turn itself off and on tonight. Basically it just turned off, the red light started flashing, then the big Hitachi logo that comes up on the screen when you plug it in kept coming on and off.

Very strange.

Anyone any ideas?

Did I get a dud?

I checked the settings and I don't appear to have it set to turn off, as I don't like that setting being on. Is there something I'm missing?

EDIT: Doesn't seem to be working at all now. Red light keeps flashing, logo keeps coming on screen, going off. Even if I plug it out for a couple of mins and back in, the same thing happens.

Similar to what is happening to this TV is happening to mine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31bSb1odoug

Yeah, it's not turning back on. I'll try make it over to Argos tomorrow. I have the receipt, and also the instruction manual at the back says there is a year guarantee with Argos, so hopefully there is no problems replacing it. I took a video of what's happening to show them. Also, does anyone think the fact that I have the TV plugged into an extension lead would make a difference?

chops018 · 16-05-2017 7:02pm

Update for anyone interested.

I brought it back to Argos this evening. They tested it and saw it wasn't working. They offered me a replacement as they had one in store, or else put credit towards a different one. I got a replacement. The one they gave me was a 64u model, and I had the 74u, although I don't really see any difference tbh. Does anyone know if there is any difference or if I should care? It could be all in my head but so far the picture quality seems a little bit worse, and the sound doesn't seem as good. Although when I first got the 74u I played around with the picture and sound settings until I got what I liked, may have to do that again here. Picture quality is noticeable on while watching the VM box, the HD channels don't seem as good. The 4k videos on the YouTube app seem excellent though. Possibly all in my head and I'll have to tinker with settings again!

Here's hoping this one is ok.

Hitachi 48 Inch Ultra HD/4K TV - €385 (Could Expire on 14th)

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