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(Image credit: Samsung)
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One of the downsides about my job is that because I’m constantly writing about thebest TVs, I’m reminded every day of what my existing TV doesn’t do. I imagine it’s rather like writing about Beyoncé all day every day and then being painfully reminded that you’re married to sofa-slob me. And because I was never entirely happy with my existingSamsung TV– it was an insurance company replacement for a smashed one, and it didn’t tick all the boxes my now-brokenSamsungTV did – the more I read about the best TVs, the more I wanted to replace mine.
If you buy a new TV your life will be better
I know that’s a horrible consumerist thing to say, but the difference between my outgoing Samsung and my new one, also a Samsung, is night and day. I’ve moved up from 58 inches to 65 (the biggest I can fit in my flat) and from QLED to Neo QLED, which uses mini-LED instead of standard LED. And it’s absolutely spectacular.
The TV I went for is almost identical to one of our best TV recommendations, theSamsung Q95. My one is a Q94, which doesn’t have the One Connect box but does have a very similar specification, albeit with fewer HDMI 2.1 ports. It costs a lot less, and because I bought an open boxrefurbI got it for considerably less than the RRP.
There are some downsides. I don’t like Samsung’s smart TV interface – I use anApple TV 4Kinstead – and as with every Samsung, the first thing I did was go into the TV settings and get out of Samsung’s ridiculously over-processed presets in favour of Movie, a slightly more vivid take on Filmmaker mode that gets rid of the unreal Soap Opera Effect and the too-bright pictures of the defaults. But it’s hard to explain just how significant an upgrade this is. Previously, I had a TV. Now it feels like a proper home cinema.
Any new TV is a lot of money, I know, and in the current cost of living crisis it feels awfully extravagant to splash out – even on a refurb. But with everything getting more expensive I’m going out less and less each month, choosing instead to binge-watchFor All Mankindand play games on myPS5andXbox Series X. So from that perspective I’m just diverting the cash from outside to inside – and I think in the darker, more rainy months I’ll be glad I did.
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