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meWant · 01-03-2015, 03:56 AM

either the Sony or one of the Samsungs. in recent times, whenever I had compared tv's and the colors Samsung always seemed to have a better picture quality than the Sony, however the Sony is not too shabby and I would still recommend them but for me personally, Samsung would be number one.

coolaron · 01-03-2015, 04:06 AM

Sony has been overtaken by Samsung long time ago IMHO.

meWant · 01-03-2015, 04:09 AM

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Originally Posted by coolaron

Sony has been overtaken by Samsung long time ago IMHO.

agreed, roughly around 2007 id say, thats when we had bought the Samsung plasma that we currently have and its been great since

coolaron · 01-03-2015, 04:16 AM

I would say from 2003-04 when Sony had to "live off" Samsung for S-LCD Corporation.

In 2011, the company's partners announce that Samsung will acquire Sony's entire stake in the joint venture, making S-LCD Corporation a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics.

meWant · 01-03-2015, 04:17 AM

Well I didn't know that was the case. Guess you really do learn something new everyday.

Thanks for the info

cdrazic93 · 01-03-2015, 04:37 AM

Since my dad is gunning for a 4K UHD tv for after the superbowl, id suggest one of those, but thats heavily outside your price range. Hard to beat sony at their game, our current projector TV is a sony, and we've had that since we moved into our current house ~13 years ago. Still runnin strong. Our other is a panasonic plasma.

Jegan_V · 01-03-2015, 10:48 AM

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also, can someone explain to me in normal human terms the difference between backlit and direct LED for backlight configuration?

Older LED TVs used what's called a full array of LEDs to provide the backlighting to replace CCFL backlighting a normal LCD uses. These are generally more bulky due to the extra layer of LEDs behind the display. Most modern LED TVs on the other hand use Edge-lit and the LEDs instead of being an extra layer are now placed on the sides of the display. That results in these LEDs being thinner than their predecessors.

If you want more info this article provides more in-depth info.
http://www.cnet.com/news/led-lcd-backlights-explained/

Atticus808 · 01-04-2015, 01:16 AM

ended up buying the Samsung 6350!

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coolaron Member Join Date: May 2012 Drives: BRZ Location: Canada Posts: 65 Thanks: 35 Thanked 16 Times in 8 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	I would say from 2003-04 when Sony had to "live off" Samsung for S-LCD Corporation. In 2011, the company's partners announce that Samsung will acquire Sony's entire stake in the joint venture, making S-LCD Corporation a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics.

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