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Once you identify what you're looking for, it'll be easier to find the TV set that's right for you.
The TV experts at Sam's Club are here to help you decide which TVs will work with your current setup as well as which ones have the special features you're most interested in. Continue reading to learn more about the various TVs available at Sam's Club. When you start shopping for a TV, you'll see numbers like p and 4K.
These numbers refer to the television's resolution. Your TV's picture is made of tiny dots called pixels, and the resolution represents the number of pixels you see on the screen. Luckily, resolution has come a long way since then, and grainy pictures are a thing of the past. The more pixels there are, the higher resolution you'll have and better quality your picture will be.
A television with p also often expressed as x means that there are pixels in height and pixels in width. To get the total number of pixels, just multiply the two numbers x That's more than 2 million pixels. A p television is considered high definition. The next level up is a 4K television, otherwise known as UHD or ultra-high definition. When it comes to the size of your television, many people assume that bigger is better. Sure, you don't want to strain to see what's happening on the screen—but it's also important to consider where the TV will be placed as well as where the viewers will sit.
For example, smaller screens are generally fine for bedrooms, while larger televisions work best in bigger spaces such as living rooms. TVs are measured diagonally. For example, if you have a inch TV, that means the screen measures 40 inches from the bottom left corner to the top right corner.
Remember, the case of the TV isn't included in the measurement. If you'd like to upgrade your TV size this time around, be sure to consider how much space your new television will take up, and whether you'll mount it on the wall or place it on a stand. Want to learn more about 4K TVs? Learn about what sets this technology apart, and whether it's the right choice for your next TV purchase.
Each pixel on an OLED TV screen is individually lit, boosting the screen's refresh rate, contrast and color reproduction. On the other hand, the pixels on LED TV screens are backlit by a primary light source and render a brighter screen. Smart TVs integrate the functions of your tablet or computer with the broadcasting abilities of your TV. Smart TVs offer easy access to interactive media, streaming entertainment, home networking and internet TV.
Plus, Smart TVs connect to external devices, such as video game consoles and media players and come with integrated wireless capabilities. Are you really into YouTube videos?
How about watching movies that you have saved on your computer? With a Smart TV, it's easy to watch online videos and other content on your TV instead of a small computer or tablet screen. And, if you like the idea of all the technology in your home being connected, a Smart TV is the way to go. Curved TVs are designed with a curved screen that angles towards the viewer for a greater sense of immersion and depth.
You'll enjoy wider viewing and an improved contrast ratio on these panoramic screens. You may also notice fewer reflections, which can improve the viewing experience. While 4K is now established as a no-brainer, there's a new next-step video technology to consider when shopping for a TV. High dynamic range HDR content gives much more information to the display than a standard video signal. The resolution remains the same as UHD, but the range of color and amount of light each pixel can produce is significantly broader. Thanks to new LCD and OLED panel technology, high-end televisions can display wider color gamuts and finer gradients of light and dark than before.
Standard video was built around the limitations of older televisions, intentionally using a set range of color and light information in the signal. HDR breaks those limitations and uses expanded ranges with finer values between them. Basically, this means HDR displays can produce more colors and more shades of gray or, rather, luminance values than standard dynamic range displays.
HDR is still a developing technology, and it's easy to be confused by it. There are two major HDR standards out there with commercially available content: HDR 10 and Dolby Vision. HDR 10 is an open platform that uses bit color values. Dolby Vision is a closed standard used by Dolby, which supports bit color and determines ranges in the signal it provides to a display on the fly, based on the display itself and the needs of the scene.
Televisions that support Dolby Vision will note so on their packaging. We'll see how they are adopted in the future. Whether one standard is better than the other is difficult to determine at this point; HDR 10 uses more concrete values and is easier to technically evaluate, but Dolby Vision is designed to specifically fit the needs and limits of whatever television you use.
No matter which you use, HDR-capable televisions can produce a better picture than TVs that don't support the wider color gamuts or increased range of luminance information. This doesn't necessarily mean the prices for the current models will drop quickly, though. New TVs don't usually hit shelves until spring, so you're looking at a solid three or four months where you know what new TVs are coming out. If you can find deep discounts for the previous year's models in January, and you know they're good performers based on our reviews, you should go for them.
Keep an eye out for sales around big sports events like the Super Bowl, or when football season is just starting. You might be able to find price cuts of a few hundred dollars or more. Like all sales, pay attention to which models are on sale; different tiers and series of TVs can have wildly different performance.
Huge price slashes on Black Friday often promote budget or midrange televisions with seemingly big discounts, but their pictures might not be nearly as good as higher-end models. Check the model numbers against the reviews for a good sense of whether the discount you see is worthwhile. It could be a steal, or it could be a disappointment.
Performance among budget TVs varies wildly, and trends toward the mediocre. You'll find a few very good deals, like the TCL P-series that manages to combine excellent picture quality with a low price. You'll also find a sea of cheap TVs that don't measure up. Don't count on big names to be reliably high-quality in their budget lines, either. While companies like LG, Samsung, and Sony can make some incredible flagship TVs, their inexpensive models generally aren't any better than baseline models from more budget-centric brands like Element, Hisense, and TCL—and they're usually a bit more expensive.
As always, our reviews and the picture quality tests we perform can help you find a screen that doesn't trade quality for price. Plasma TVs were the only flat-panel models available when they were first introduced more than a decade ago. They're now a dead category, and you won't see a major television manufacturer offering a new plasma television any time soon.
First, a note: LCD panels themselves aren't lit, so they need to be illuminated. There are further differences in the various designs. LED TVs can be either edge-lit or backlit. Edge-lit TVs light up their screens with arrays of LEDs along the edges of the panels, allowing the set to be thin and light.
Backlit TVs use a large array of LEDs directly behind the panel, making the screen a little thicker, but allowing it to more evenly illuminate the panel and, for high-end screens, adjust individual LEDs to enhance black levels in scenes. Very good edge-lighting systems can produce excellent pictures, though, and TV manufacturers are making backlit LED arrays smaller and thinner, so the distinction means less than it used to. No matter the technology, an LED TV's thinness and brightness will be roughly proportional to its price range.
OLED organic light-emitting diode displays are a rare and very expensive technology for TVs, and despite their name are drastically different from LED-backlit televisions. In fact, they're closer to plasma screens in how they work. Each diode generates both color and light, like in plasma screens, but they can be much smaller and thinner than even LED-lit panels, and can produce some of the best black levels possible.
A big TV that's too close can be just as uncomfortable to watch as a small one that's too far away, so don't assume that the biggest screen available is the best choice. There are a few different rules of thumb regarding TV screen size based on your distance from it. Generally, the distance of your couch to your TV should be between 1.
So if your couch is six feet away from your screen, you can comfortably watch a TV between 42 and 60 inches. If your couch is five feet away, a to inch screen should work well. Most televisions have flat screens. Curved screens were a more prominent fad a few years ago, when several TV manufacturers Samsung in particular pushed curved televisions as premium products. Some manufacturers claimed that curved TVs offered some form of visual benefit.
This doesn't reflect in our testing. Performance-wise, there is no reason to opt for a curved television screen. Whereas a smaller curved gaming monitor can provide a more immersive viewing experience for a single viewer, a curved TV can make it harder for large groups to get consistent picture quality.
Those looking at the screen from an off-center angle may experience distortion. Design-wise, curved screens might look visually striking, but they certainly don't justify an increase in price over a similar flat TV. One of the biggest problems with narrowing your choices to a single TV is the sheer number of specs.
To make your job a little easier, two of the biggies, refresh rate and contrast ratio, are safe to ignore. Refresh or response rate, the speed at which your TV's panel refreshes its image, is expressed in hertz 60Hz, Hz, Hz, Hz, or Hz. The theory is that a faster refresh rate results in a smoother image. But in reality, there are several reasons this simply isn't true, and it's not worth paying more for a set with a faster response rate. In many cases, 60Hz will do just fine for films and Hz will be plenty for video games and sports though you should probably turn off those higher refresh rate modes when watching most shows and movies, or else you'll get that jarring soap opera effect.
Contrast ratio, meanwhile, is the difference between the darkest black and the brightest white a panel can display. In theory, the highest contrast ratio possible is desirable since dark blacks and bright whites contribute to a high-quality picture. There isn't a standardized way for manufacturers to measure this spec, though, so Samsung's numbers aren't directly comparable with, say, Panasonic's or Sharp's numbers.