Purchasing a tv - specification v design

CuppaTea

Hi everyone,

I am looking to purchase a 32" wall mounted tv for my bedroom.

The one I really like is of my preferred brand, an LG and HD ready. Its a bonus that its in a white surround so its matches my bedroom furniture. Its £30 more expensive

The other option is a samsung but its black. However its of a higher specification and has Full HD. It is cheaper than the LG.

So basically how much does looks affect your choices? Would you pay less to have a superior model that didnt match your decor or vice versa.

I'm stuck (and yes I'm female).

Thanks.

Teeniepops

I like things to look nice, but I wouldn't necessarily sacrifice better quality for better looking, especially for something electronic.

That said, are we talking massive differences? Why not use an online review site for both and see what others think, that way, if little difference then go with white!

Erinnire

On TVs and electricals I personally would pick spec over design all the time! I have all white furniture and a black tv in the bedroom and it doesn't look out of place

skintchick

If it were me I'd make my OH (who is the tech hound in our family) find me one both attractive AND full spec!

When he was building our media centre I made him spend £200 on a specific case because it was silver and attractive. The ugly black ones were waaaaay cheaper...

Alikay

Over the lifetime of a TV, £30 is a very small amount, so I'd go with the one I preferred. I'd probably have the one which looked nicest on the wall as I doubt you'd notice any subtle difference in picture quality for most programmes.

lika_86

From Martin's own wise words:

It’s worth noting that even if you have a HD telly, unless the signal and programme are in HD eg, via Blu-ray or a Sky HD box (watching a HD channel, with a programmne in HD) your picture won’t be). So there’s no point in getting full HD if you don’t have something or intend getting something that plays out in HD.

lostinrates

This is easy for me...I hate things like tv's on display. I would choose the better one and put it in a cupboard. We have a hideous wall mounted tv in the kitchen which is going to have a shelf above and below t so it is 'lost' at the back of that.

My preference for anything that had to be wall mounted would be something like this.

http://www.magicmirrortv.co.uk/?gclid=CPXr0tesk7UCFUXHtAodHXQAqQ

And I would sacrifice Spec for that.

I hate tv's as a focus point.

CuppaTea

Thanks for all your replies.

I like the mirror tv thing but unfortunately i can't afford that and it wouldn't work in my bedroom, not would a unit to hide it away, just isn't the space.

I thought a bit like alikay that as i'm only going to be watching it for dvd's or tv in bed at night, or the kids tv in the morning, it doesnt need to be the dogs b*ll*cks, I have a sony tv downstairs that suffices.

I imagine only half the week at most it would be turned on.

thefishdude

the better one costs less, no brainer really in my opinion.

getmore4less

lika_86 wrote: »

From Martin's own wise words:

It’s worth noting that even if you have a HD telly, unless the signal and programme are in HD eg, via Blu-ray or a Sky HD box (watching a HD channel, with a programmne in HD) your picture won’t be). So there’s no point in getting full HD if you don’t have something or intend getting something that plays out in HD.

But fails to mention the importance of signal processing that effects the quality from SD sources.

HD is not the relevent bit of the spec you need to be looking at if you have SD sources.

getmore4less

If its for the end of the bed so 8' + distance viewing it is too small.

for in bed viewing ceiling mounted is better unless you have a motor bed to support back/neck