Brand/Type of TV

[jabrown0604]

I recently have been doing a lot of testing on serviio, but have made no posts for quite sometime. The reason for no posts was more to do with the logs weren't showing anything wrong and it appeared in every aspect to be working perfectly. Turns out some of the problems I have been having are due to the old TV and HDMI issues. So completely unrelated to serviio.

Here is my question and I will take Bias into account.

What is your favorite brand of TV?

What type/brand have you had the best luck with?

I have an old Samsung. With current events I am thinking of switching to a different brand until Samsung figures out a better strategy for their company. I have been looking at LG and Toshiba. Any thoughts on these brands. However I like Sharp and Sony as well. I can't decide between 4 brands.

[Illico]

From my point of view, Sony and Samsung are probably the best brand, then new Philips TV are good too.
But you have to take care of model number, because in the same brand, you can find different prices ranges with different qualities ranges.
Suggest to use some comparaison website from specification : http://www.lcd-compare.com
and read some other like : http://www.lesnumeriques.com

I bought a Panasonic from the GT30 range last christmas and it has been a brilliant buy with quite a big list of features including FreeSAT, FreeView, great media player and the option to record digital TV if you plug in a USB HDD which works very well.

My main reason for buying was the 2D picture quality, rather than the 3D, so once you add Serviio to the mix you get a fantastic picture combined with the ability to play almost anything! (I haven't found anything it can't play but I'm sure there's something out there). The TV was able to play most MKV's from my NAS drive as standard, but now I've moved to a PC based server with Serviio and other download applications it has actually changed the way I watch TV. The link between Serviio and the TV is the foundation for a great setup.

For me I would get a TV with a great picture and setup a small PC/sever to process the media you want to watch.

Pete