In the XX Century all that was needed was cash! A good load of cash would get you a great tv. This was true in the 80s, 90s and even in the 2000. Today and since 2012-2015 the choice (at least for me) is becoming almost impossible!
When 4k arrived after a couple of years i decided to buy a 43" inch tv in order to change my 32" living room tv. This was in 2015/2016 and it was black friday and i could not resist a deal of 399.99. Soon i realized something was wrong i could not adapt to this new tv. From red eye, to sore eye or migraines i was forced to return the tv after 1 week.
2016 Return Round 1 - LG 43" 4K - IPS panel Low/medium range - 399.99 Eur - symptoms were bad.
Still in black friday i could not help it and pull the trigger again after a big promo and search for the model specifics and same result!
2016 Return Round 2 - Samsung 40MU6445 VA Panel - Medium range- 429.99 Eur - diferent brand same result 🙁
After this first exercice i started to investigate why this "curse" is happening to me…. since the dawn of times i bought tvs and monitors without any problem. (My first monitor in the 90s was a crt sony triniton with a impeccable image)
I reached one conclusion: I need to try again! LOL
In the next year 2017 at Black Friday, AKA: "TV Return Season" i was going to do it again. This time diferent technology and bigger size: LG 49" Full Array + Nanocell. The tv was awesome……however…had to return it.
2017 Return Round 1 - LG 49" 4K - IPS panel Nanocell FALD - medium range - 699.99 Eur.
Still in Black Friday i started to reach a conclusion…. IPS = Soft on the eyes + Sony no PWM and bough a Sony 43XF85 Edge Led. WOW Finally it worked i adapted very well to this tv! My experience was sucessfull it was PWM Free TV. However lol the panel had lot a banding and grey fog effects on a black screen. Can you guess what happened?
2017 Return Round 2 - Sony 43" 4K - IPS panel Edge Led - medium range - 789.99 Eur.
Well starting on the next Return TV Season of 2018 - I decided to buy 2 tvs on a row….
- LG B7 OLED TV 55" - Oled TV
- Sony 49XG9005 - LED Reference TV FALD
The Oled was awesome the sound awesome the picture very good! But….very large size for me lots of sore eyes and eye stain! Regarding the Sony 49" Perfect Size for me but PWM tv…..lots of migraines and diziness 🙁
2018 Return Round 1 (Double Pack Return) - Sony 49XG9005 - 899 Euros and LG OLED B7 - 1000 Euros
Man….i am tired of writting imagine to carry all these boxes LOL
Ok ok ….this time i went to ebay and won an auction of a Sony: 43XD8099 for 250 euros- VA Panel, Flicker Free and this was been my living room tv since then! The image is very good and natural and i consider it a reference TV in the 43" size! (it is way better that the sony led best model of 2022) and surprise it was updated to android 9….a tv from 2016! 🙂
Living Room Tv since 2018 - Sony 43XD8099 - VA Panel , Flicker Free, Best 43" Tv
This was a good experience and not the first since i already bought before the Sony 32W706B for my bedroom a small gem tv with VA Panel and flicker free image. Cost me about 150 euros in ebay 🙂
Ok this was my tv since 2018 to 2021…… but i wanted more and in 2021 starts another Black Friday AKA: "Tv Return Season" and this time i made my homework!! So i pull the trigger on a Sony 50XJ85 - VA Panel from a AUO optronics (Flicker Free according to Rtings) so what could go wrong??? …..Well a lot…..This was a pseudo Hdmi 2.1 - (Shame on you Sony 2 year in a row wtf??) also the tv image was worse than my 43" 2016 TV, and i got eye strain sympthons…..i had no alternative 🙁
2021 Return Round 1 - Sony 50XJ85 - 799 Euros
And finally the point where we are! 2022 not planned to buy anything and wait for QD OLED but…. saw a deal of the Sony 48" Oled 48A9 for 1000 Euros and decided to pull the trigger!
The Tv is very good is a Master series Tv, Image is good, sound is big surprise. Big let down is the MOTION 🙁 was not expecting this! TV is the second version 2021 sony KE48A9. I am at the Second day of use! Started to play with configs and create another post in this forum. For now Cinema mode and everthing off, only get some diziness or migraines no eye strain, let me see if i can adapt to this ….. if not …oh man…. 🙁 i dont want to return this tv …its a master series! Tomorrow will try new TV cable box and new hdmi cables to see if i get pass the migraines.
Update - returned the sony 48A9 master series oled - reason : headaches + migraines
This was my story regarding TVs…. phones and monitors no problem if i buy flicker free ones!
Thank you for reading and thank you for this great comunity!
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