As a continuation of my “Tax Refund & Gadget Buying Spree” blog, I have bought myself a 60in LED TV; although you wouldn’t believe it; everyone else has monopolized the new toy since setting it up.
But it wasn’t a single simple purchase as the first TV that I bought; a Sharp Aquos (model #: LC-60LE450U) turned out to have a LED fault; a 1″ portion of the bottom left of screen was left unilluminated, so that one went back to the store. The store didn’t have the same model in stock and nothing for the same price so I was offered a Samsung 60in UN60FH6003FXZA with an additional $100 rebate, so I took that offer and thusfar I am very happy with the TV.
Previously I had a 40in RCA LED TV in the living room; which was a little on the small side for a 21ft x 14ft room, but a 60in screen is huge, it doesn’t seem like much on paper but in reality 20 extra inches makes a massive difference. Combined with my 800w 5.1 surround sound system and Playstation 3 it really feels like a movie theater in my living room now, which I obviously like.
My only bugbear is the corners of the screen are slightly dimmer than the center of the screen; but it’s even across all four corners so I assume it’s a design limitation. But it’s something I can live with, it’s the inconsistencies that I can’t live with, for example if it only affected one corner.