Considering potentially picking one of these up, it's a cheap 4k TV sure, I don't think it supports Chroma 4:4:4, but I won't be using it as a monitor, it'll be a living room TV mostly, so it'll be upscaling HD cable input and rarely playing 4k videos
Pricing is $229 for the 43" and 299 for the 49" it has HDMI 2.0 at least, so that's nice
most of the reviews mention the audio being just pretty average, so I'll have to look more into fixing that
Anyways, mostly here for any opinions on it or alternatives, not looking to get deep into 4k just yet, but a basic 4K TV should be pretty nice anyways just to see what the fuss is about, the reviews look pretty decent overall
- - They're surely better than the older cheap Seiki TVs right? I think those were only 30hz
It should have optical out or 3.5mm though the 3.5mm might be faulty, I have a small DAC that works fine anyways for the optical. Still weighing some options, not sure I love my family enough to buy them a $300 TV
I think you might be confusing this with the Seiki TV's that were 30hz at 4k.
I ended up pulling the trigger on one of those 39" ones and I don't regret it. Got it on sale for $279 plus shipping from Tiger little over a year and a half ago.
I installed custom firmware on it and it works great with 120hz 1080p when gaming and the scaling is pretty good!
4k content like videos looks really great even in 30hz but I mainly use it for 120hz 1080p like I said when doing actual work.
EDIT: Ahh you did mention that at the bottom of your post... Either way I enjoy my cheap seiki ;D
Although i would have to run it at 4k 30hz when I play around with it at my PC if I get it, don't have HDMI 2.0, and I don't want to pay $30 for an adapter I'd only use once
It's rated at like 6.5ms but I've been more than happy with gaming on it.
Feels responsive and smooth coming from a 1ms Samsung TN 22" overclocked at ~90hz.
I was really skeptical and thought it was going to be awful and felt remorse when I bought it but it really suprised me and I enjoy the large 120hz 1080p.
Games look great, windows programs look acceptable (sharpness 0).
I figure I will upgrade to a 4k freesync ips panel in the future with proper 60+hz but this will still make a great TV.
I'm currently undecided between triple 1080p or cheap big 4k display, or 28" 4k free-sync display, all cost around the same in the end, Although the triple set up would let me take 4k*3 screenshots using VSR on a future RX 470 potentially
Pretty impressive pricing. Id love to hear how it performs on a PC if anyone picks one up. Hopefully the OSD lets you pick a PC / Gaming mode.
After my GFX card update I will be on the hunt for a ~42" TV with freesync myself. I have a 42" 1080p display atm which is prefect for me but a desktop at 4k is appealing.
That's the thing with AMD RX pricing. There really all fairly cheap. An RX 480 is not in the same league as a 1080 or a titan. Raising a few more dollars for the RX 480 over the RX 470 is not out of the question just save a few weeks more. Even dropping 8GB to 4GB is fine at 1080P
I'm poor people :)
If these Sceptre TV's have a gaming mode removing the TV image processing built into TVs. There an pretty good low budget buy as I see it.
got one of these and it does 4k 60hz and i played cs with it and sucked horribly with it but it's pretty and works. idk how to accurately test the lag but i dont notice any unless im playing in 4k (due to the gpu) and fallout in 1080p seemed about the same as fallout on my 5ms 1080 monitors.
